Paul W. Frields | |
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Fedora Information | |
FAS name: | pfrields |
Fedora email: | pfrields@fedoraproject.org |
IRC nick: | stickster |
IRC channels: | #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fedora-mktg, #fedora-art, #fedora-admin, #fedora-ambassadors, #fedora-qa, #fedora-bugzappers, #fedora-websites, #fredlug (and others) |
Fedorapeople page: | https://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
These documents appear on the Fedora documentation Web site and in Docs CVS . I have done authorial or editorial work on the following documents:
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:
-- GNOME application for editing/maintaining blogsblogtk
-- Release Notes for Fedorafedora-release-notes
-- Recover files by "carving" them from a raw diskforemost
-- Nautilus extension for an open terminal shortcutnautilus-open-terminal
-- A Nautilus extension that makes searching for files easiernautilus-search-tool
-- Nautilus context menu for sending filesnautilus-sendto
-- Python library for manipulating OpenDocument filesodfpy
-- Open Phone Abstraction Libraryopal
-- Utilities to read and manipulate patches and CVSperl-PatchReader
-- A lightweight API for Picasa in PHPphp-LightweightPicasaAPI
-- PHP wrapper for the SmugMug APIphp-phpSmug
-- Turnbased board strategy game (colonize an island)pioneers
-- MediaWiki conversion library for Pythonpython-mwlib
-- Tree to tree correction between XML documentsxmldiff
-- Command Line XML Toolkitxmlstarlet
-- Zikula is a free open source Web Application Frameworkzikula
-- Manages news articles on your Zikula sitezikula-module-News
I no longer maintain the following Extras packages:
- dead upstreamdrivel
- moved into gnome-gamesgnome-sudoku
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, Perl, C/C++
GPG Information
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