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I maintain or co-maintain the following packages in [[PackageMaintainers| the Fedora package collection]]:
I maintain or co-maintain the following packages in [[PackageMaintainers| the Fedora package collection]]:
* {{package|blogtk}} -- GNOME application for editing/maintaining blogs
* {{package|blogtk}} -- GNOME application for editing/maintaining blogs
* {{package|drupal6-theme-ninesixty}} -- Ninesixty theme for Drupal 6
* {{package|fedora-release-notes}} -- Release Notes for Fedora
* {{package|fedora-release-notes}} -- Release Notes for Fedora
* {{package|foremost}} -- Recover files by "carving" them from a raw disk
* {{package|foremost}} -- Recover files by "carving" them from a raw disk

Revision as of 22:16, 21 February 2011

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

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:

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:

I no longer maintain the following Extras 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

  • 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, C/C++

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