Welcome to all Fedora Linux enthusiasts!
JCP is short for John C. Peterson.
My formal academic training is in the area of Mathematics and Physics (double major, BS), Applied Mathematics (MS), and Mechanical Engineering (MS). My interests in those disciplines continues to this day, with an emphasis on computational physics and engineering, computational logic, and computing for other scientific applications.
My earliest practical experience with computers dates back to the late 1960's. In the early 1980's, I worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. There, I was first exposed to UNIX, mostly because the Symbolic Manipulation Program, or SMP, (which eventually became what is known as Mathematica today), only ran on UNIX machines at that time. I also enjoyed working on the super-computers of that era (mainly the CDC 7600, and the CRAY-1S) while there.
I now live in the San Diego, California and work on a consultant basis in a variety of scientific disciplines, and usually computing is involved in some way or another. If Linux is to be used in the work, that is always a good thing in my book.
Why I like Linux
The disciplines of Mathematics, Engineering and Science are inherently very collaborative endeavors. The open source development models of Linux distributions like Fedora, are both very familiar and comfortable for people like myself who are from these disciplines. In a Linux environment, the tools I use for computing can evolve with the Science as needed, and just exactly what they do can always be unambiguously verified by a direct inspection of the underlying source code.
Contributing to Fedora
I hope to assist with the packaging of new and useful tools for scientific computing on Fedora Linux. I have a high degree of interest in automated theorem proving, SAT and SMT solvers, and formal languages with a focus on both applications (e.g. software and hardware verification, systems biology) and formalized proofs in pure mathematics.
Other Hobbies
Some other prominent hobbies of mine include; amateur radio (Technician Class, KD6EKQ), general aviation (private pilot with Glider, ASEL category ratings), and driving motorcycles (1973 Kawasaki Z1, 1989 Kawasaki ZX10).