BrianShumate
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Full Name : J. Brian Shumate E-Mail : bshumate at NOSPAM openmindshare.com, bshumate at NOSPAM member.fsf.org IRC Nick : bshumate @ irc.freenode.net : #ubuntu, #ubuntu-doc, #ubuntu-meeting
About Me
I am just a not-so-average curmudgeon of the compuverse. I started noodling with computers twenty years ago with an Apple IIe in elementary school. Today, I still use an Apple machine, but I have many more machines which are running freely available operating systems, and software at my evil genius lab located in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, USA where I currently reside with my wonderful wife, and two young children.
Using Ubuntu for a while on a desktop, and now more intensively on an IBM ThinkPad has convinced me to begin repaying my debts of kindness to the free, and open source software communities. To that end, I am now trying to work at providing some of my professional capacity as a Technical Writer to the Ubuntu Documentation Team! So far, I seem to be doing well enough, and the folks who make up he DocTeam, are like any of those associated with Ubuntu-- wonderful fellow Human beings! Cheers to the kind people of Ubuntu for giving me the inspiration to help out!
If you've survived this long-winded passage so far, there is more detail on how I am contributing below. Thanks for checking out my page, and if I can help you in any way, feel free to contact me using any of the means hilighted at the top of the page.
My Contributions to Ubuntu
So far, I have just been contributing slight edits, though I've recently took on a whole section of the ServerGuide. Below are the representative patches:
IRC
I am active on IRC in #ubuntu some days, trying to help others, and learning in the process!
Patches
Below are the patches related to my DocTeam work:
Assisted Material
These patches represent modifications to existing material I have suggested:
[http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc-commits/2005-November/001702.html Server Guide - Installation Section]
[http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc-commits/2005-December/001705.html Server Guide - Network Applications]
Original Material
These patches represent original material I have contributed:
[http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc-commits/2005-December/001707.html Server Guide - OpenSSH Introduction]
[http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc-commits/2005-December/001712.html Server Guide - Windows Networking]