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I work for [http://redhat.com/ Red Hat] as an engineering operations manager.  I joined the company in February 2008 and until July 2010, I served as the [[Project Leader|Fedora Project Leader]] and chairman of the [[Board| Fedora Project Board]].  I also dabble in the following bits:
I work for [http://redhat.com/ Red Hat] as an engineering operations manager.  I joined the company in February 2008 and until July 2010, I served as the [[Project Leader|Fedora Project Leader]] and chairman of the [[Board| Fedora Project Board]].  Nowadays in what little spare time I have, I dabble in the following bits:
* The [[Docs Project | Documentation team]], as a writer, editor, and part-time balladeer
* Maintainer of fedora-release-notes and [[#Package_Maintenance|a few other useful packages]]
* Help with the [[Insight]] project
* Help with the [[Insight]] project
* Merciless and sometimes foolhardy [[wiki gardening]]
* Merciless and sometimes foolhardy [[wiki gardening]]
* Give bits of advice and help to the [[FPL]] as a member of the "ex-FPL club"
* Work on my own [http://pulsecaster.org PulseCaster] project (it's [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/applications/Pulsecaster available in Fedora] of course!)


I help drive the [http://fredlug.tux.org/ Fredericksburg (VA) Linux Users Group] (FredLUG), which meets twice monthly in my hometown.
I participate in the [http://fredlug.tux.org/ Fredericksburg (VA) Linux Users Group] (FredLUG), which meets twice monthly in my hometown.


I was a founding member of the [[Board|Fedora Project Board]], and served the community there from April 2006 to July 2007.
I was a founding member of the [[Board|Fedora Project Board]], and served the community there from April 2006 to July 2007.
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* [[/Drafts| Drafts and Downloads]]
* [[/Drafts| Drafts and Downloads]]


These documents appear on the [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora documentation] Web site and in [http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/docs.shtml Docs CVS] .  I have done authorial or editorial work on the following documents:
These documents appear on the [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora documentation] Web site and in [http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/docs.shtml Docs CVS].  These docs now have fantastic maintainers, but there may be bits of my old work floating around in them:
 
* [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/ Installation Guide]  
* [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/ Installation Guide]  
* [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/ Release Notes]  
* [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/ Release Notes]  
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== Package Maintenance ==
== Package Maintenance ==
I maintain or co-maintain the following packages in [[PackageMaintainers| the Fedora package collection]]:
I maintain or co-maintain the following packages in [[PackageMaintainers| the Fedora package collection]]: [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/pfrields Package listing]
* {{package|blogtk}} -- GNOME application for editing/maintaining blogs
* {{package|drupal6-auto_nodetitle}} -- auto_nodetitle module for Drupal 6
* {{package|drupal6-theme-ninesixty}} -- Ninesixty theme for Drupal 6
* {{package|drupal6-token}} -- Token module for Drupal 6
* {{package|fedora-release-notes}} -- Release Notes for Fedora
* {{package|foremost}} -- Recover files by "carving" them from a raw disk
* {{package|jokosher}} -- A simple and easy-to-use Open Source multi-track editor
* {{package|foremost}} -- Recover files by "carving" them from a raw disk
* {{package|nautilus-open-terminal}} -- Nautilus extension for an open terminal shortcut
* {{package|nautilus-search-tool}} -- A Nautilus extension that makes searching for files easier
* {{package|nautilus-sendto}} -- Nautilus context menu for sending files
* {{package|odfpy}} -- Python library for manipulating OpenDocument files
* {{package|opal}} -- Open Phone Abstraction Library
* {{package|perl-PatchReader}} -- Utilities to read and manipulate patches and CVS
* {{package|php-LightweightPicasaAPI}} -- A lightweight API for Picasa in PHP
* {{package|php-phpSmug}} -- PHP wrapper for the SmugMug API
* {{package|pioneers}} -- Turnbased board strategy game (colonize an island)
* {{package|pulsecaster}} -- A PulseAudio-based podcast recorder
* {{package|python-babel-BabelGladeExtractor}} -- A Babel extractor plug-in which extracts translatable messages
* {{package|python-mwlib}} -- MediaWiki conversion library for Python
* {{package|xmldiff}} -- Tree to tree correction between XML documents
* {{package|xmlstarlet}} -- Command Line XML Toolkit
* {{package|zikula}} -- Zikula is a free open source Web Application Framework
* {{package|zikula-module-EZComments}} -- Simple Zikula module that provides comment functions to other modules
* {{package|zikula-module-News}} -- Manages news articles on your Zikula site


I no longer maintain the following packages:
I no longer maintain the following packages:
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== Self Introduction ==
== Self Introduction ==


Name: Paul W. Frields
Name: Paul W. Frields<br/>
 
Location: Fredericksburg, VA - USA<br/>
Location: Fredericksburg, VA - USA
Profession: Engineering Project Manager<br/>
 
Profession: Engineering Project Manager
 
Company: [http://redhat.com/ Red Hat, Inc.]  
Company: [http://redhat.com/ Red Hat, Inc.]  


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==== As a Contributor ====
==== As a Contributor ====
* Help develop a content management system to serve the needs of multiple teams such as the [[Marketing]] and [[Design]] teams.
* Help develop a content management system to serve the needs of multiple teams such as the [[Marketing]] and [[Design]] teams.
* Provide the odd low-maintenance package such as non-critical add-ons, where my programming skill (or lack thereof) is not a limiting factor.
* Provide the odd low-maintenance package such as non-critical add-ons, where my programming skill (or lack thereof) is not a limiting factor.
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HIGH:  bash, GNU make, DocBook XML, RHCE (RHL 7.1, RHEL 3 & 5), communication skills (writing, teaching, public speaking)
HIGH:  bash, GNU make, DocBook XML, RHCE (RHL 7.1, RHEL 3 & 5), communication skills (writing, teaching, public speaking)


MEDIUM/LOW:  XML/XSL/XSLT, Python, C/C++
MEDIUM/LOW:  XML/XSL/XSLT, Python, C/C++, GTK/GObject


== GPG Information ==
== GPG Information ==

Revision as of 12:46, 14 February 2012

Paul W. Frields
Paul W. Frields
Fedora Information
FAS name: pfrields
Fedora email: pfrields@fedoraproject.org
IRC nick: stickster
IRC channels: #fedora-docs, #fedora-mktg, #fedora-admin, #fedora-advisory-board, #fedora-ambassadors, #fredlug (and others)
Fedorapeople page: https://pfrields.fedorapeople.org
Badges (140)
Speak Up! Associate Editor Junior Editor Involvement Tanked! Flock 2013 Attendee Secretary General Pixel Ninja You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Mugshot Ambassador Packager Sponsor Bona Fide If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Nuancier Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Let Me Introduce Myself Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Riddle Me This Flock 2013 Speaker Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Embryo Froglet Tadpole Egg Tadpole with Legs Apex Baby Badger White Rabbit DevConf 2014 Attendee Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Partners in Crime If you build it... (Koji Success III) Heartbleed Buster Rockin' & Rollin' Paranoid Panda Senior Editor The Blessing of the FPL Vacation Take this and call me in the morning Flock 2014 Speaker White Hat Senior Badger (Badger II) Flock 2014 Attendee Extra! Extra! Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Corporate Drone Nuancier 21 Party Pirate Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Dancing with Toshio Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Readiness Flock 2014 Organizer Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 What goes around comes around (Karma I) Master Editor Let's do lunch! You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Design Ninja Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II) Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Chief Editor Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Flock 2015 Speaker DevConf 2015 Speaker Macaron (Cookie I) Origin Flock 2015 Attendee Adult Frog Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Nom Nom Nom Flock 2015 Organizer Websites.NEXT Old Yeller Nuancier F23 Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III) Top 100 Top 500 Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Maestro Badge Muse (Badges Released I) Grandmaster Editor Common Bugs Contributor Black and White (Cookie III) Nuancier F24 Docs FAD 2016 Master Badger (Badger III) Red Hat Summit 2016 Flock 2016 Organizer Nuancier F28 Flock 2016 Attendee Flock 2016 Speaker Community Messenger I Nuancier F25 Nuancier F26 Steampunk Arcade Board Member Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Red Hat Summit 2017 Flock 2017 Attendee Flock 2017 Organizer Rainbow (Cookie V) Rollercoaster Restaurant What goes around comes around (Karma II) Red Hat Summit 2018 Fedora Podcast Interviewee Helping Hand Parselmouth I I Voted: Fedora 31 Council Member Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) I Voted: Fedora 30 I Voted: Fedora 33 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) nest-attendee-2020 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Magazine Editor Nest Attendee 2021 United Packages of Fedora Community Survey Taker 2023 I voted: Fedora 39
 

I work for Red Hat as an engineering operations manager. I joined the company in February 2008 and until July 2010, I served as the Fedora Project Leader and chairman of the Fedora Project Board. Nowadays in what little spare time I have, I dabble in the following bits:

I participate in the Fredericksburg (VA) Linux Users Group (FredLUG), which meets twice monthly in my hometown.

I was a founding member of the Fedora Project Board, and served the community there from April 2006 to July 2007.

Active Documents

These documents appear on the Fedora documentation Web site and in Docs CVS. These docs now have fantastic maintainers, but there may be bits of my old work floating around in them:

In the past, I've also worked on these (now obsolete) documents:

  • Installation Guides for FC4, FC5
  • SELinux FAQ for FC5
  • Yum Software Management for FC3, FC4

Package Maintenance

I maintain or co-maintain the following packages in the Fedora package collection: Package listing

I no longer maintain the following packages:

Obsolete Documents

These are deprecated because of changes over time to Fedora. Currently these still appear in CVS, but may eventually become wistful memories.

Self Introduction

Name: Paul W. Frields
Location: Fredericksburg, VA - USA
Profession: Engineering Project Manager
Company: Red Hat, Inc.

Goals

As a Contributor

  • Help develop a content management system to serve the needs of multiple teams such as the Marketing and Design teams.
  • Provide the odd low-maintenance package such as non-critical add-ons, where my programming skill (or lack thereof) is not a limiting factor.
  • Strive to provide a good example of dealing with other people in a constructive, friendly way at all times.

Skill Areas

HIGH: bash, GNU make, DocBook XML, RHCE (RHL 7.1, RHEL 3 & 5), communication skills (writing, teaching, public speaking)

MEDIUM/LOW: XML/XSL/XSLT, Python, C/C++, GTK/GObject

GPG Information

pub   1024D/BD113717 1997-09-19
Key fingerprint = 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233  5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717
sub   4096g/46D87F1F 1997-09-19
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