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You can find [[/Bio | my official bio here]].
You can find [[/Bio | my official bio here]].

Revision as of 21:11, 8 October 2013

Paul W. Frields
Personal Information
Birthday:
Home: http://paul.frields.org/
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FAS-Name: pfrields
Fedora-Mail: pfrields@fedoraproject.org
Miscellaneous Information
Private Mail:
GPG-Key: BD113717
IRC: stickster on Libera.chat in
#fedora-docs, #fedora-mktg, #fedora-admin, #fedora-advisory-board, #fedora-ambassadors, #fredlug (and others)
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 Tadpole with Legs Froglet Egg Tadpole Apex Baby Badger White Rabbit If you build it... (Koji Success III) Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) DevConf 2014 Attendee Senior Badger (Badger II) Rockin' & Rollin' The Blessing of the FPL Take this and call me in the morning Flock 2014 Attendee Partners in Crime Heartbleed Buster Paranoid Panda Senior Editor Vacation Flock 2014 Speaker White Hat Dancing with Toshio Party Pirate Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Nuancier 21 Extra!  Extra! Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Corporate Drone Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 Flock 2014 Organizer What goes around comes around (Karma I) Let's do lunch! You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Readiness Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Master Editor Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Design Ninja Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II) Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Macaron (Cookie I) Flock 2015 Speaker DevConf 2015 Speaker Origin Adult Frog Chief Editor Flock 2015 Attendee Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Flock 2015 Organizer Nuancier F23 Nom Nom Nom Websites.NEXT Old Yeller Top 500 Grandmaster Editor Badge Muse (Badges Released I) Top 100 Maestro Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Common Bugs Contributor Black and White (Cookie III) Docs FAD 2016 Nuancier F24 Red Hat Summit 2016 Flock 2016 Attendee Master Badger (Badger III) Flock 2016 Organizer Flock 2016 Speaker Nuancier F26 Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Community Messenger I Nuancier F25 Steampunk Arcade Flock 2017 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2017 Nuancier F28 Board Member Flock 2017 Organizer Rainbow (Cookie V) Fedora Podcast Interviewee Red Hat Summit 2018 Helping Hand Rollercoaster Restaurant What goes around comes around (Karma II) Council Member Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) I Voted: Fedora 31 Parselmouth I Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 33 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 Attendee 2021 United Packages of Fedora I voted: Fedora 39 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2023
 

You can find my official bio here. 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