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

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