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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.
* 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.
* Strive to provide a good example of dealing with other people in a constructive, friendly way at all times.
* Approach issues from the perspective of a general productivity computer user so that Fedora maintains a welcoming environment for everyone.
* Be an example for others in dealing with other people in a constructive, friendly way at all times.


=== Skill Areas ===
=== Skill Areas ===

Revision as of 13:43, 15 May 2012

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

I work for Red Hat as an engineering 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 as a volunteer contributor, 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

  • Provide the odd low-maintenance package such as non-critical add-ons, where my programming skill (or lack thereof) is not a limiting factor.
  • Approach issues from the perspective of a general productivity computer user so that Fedora maintains a welcoming environment for everyone.
  • Be an example for others in 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