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Paul W. Frields
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Home:	http://paul.frields.org/
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:	http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org
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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. I also dabble in the following bits:

• The Documentation team, as a writer, editor, and part-time balladeer
• Maintainer of fedora-release-notes and a few other useful packages
• Help with the Marketing team
• Merciless and sometimes foolhardy wiki gardening

I help drive 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

• Drafts and Downloads

These documents appear on the Fedora documentation Web site and in Docs CVS . I have done authorial or editorial work on the following documents:

• Installation Guide
• Release Notes
• Jargon Buster
• Translation Quick Start Guide

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:

• blogtk -- GNOME application for editing/maintaining blogs
• fedora-release-notes -- Release Notes for Fedora
• foremost -- Recover files by "carving" them from a raw disk
• nautilus-open-terminal -- Nautilus extension for an open terminal shortcut
• nautilus-search-tool -- A Nautilus extension that makes searching for files easier
• nautilus-sendto -- Nautilus context menu for sending files
• odfpy -- Python library for manipulating OpenDocument files
• opal -- Open Phone Abstraction Library
• perl-PatchReader -- Utilities to read and manipulate patches and CVS
• php-LightweightPicasaAPI -- A lightweight API for Picasa in PHP
• php-phpSmug -- PHP wrapper for the SmugMug API
• pioneers -- Turnbased board strategy game (colonize an island)
• python-mwlib -- MediaWiki conversion library for Python
• xmldiff -- Tree to tree correction between XML documents
• xmlstarlet -- Command Line XML Toolkit
• zikula -- Zikula is a free open source Web Application Framework
• zikula-module-News -- Manages news articles on your Zikula site

I no longer maintain the following Extras packages:

• drivel - dead upstream
• gnome-sudoku - moved into gnome-games

Obsolete Documents

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

• USB-Hotplug Tutorial
• Mirror Tutorial for FC2
• Web Publishing to docs.fedoraproject.org -- This subject is now covered in the Documentation Guide.

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++

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