Self Introduction: Mark Johnson

[Mark Johnson]

 >    1. Full legal name
 >    2. Country, City
 >    3. Profession or Student status
 >    4. Company or School

Mark Richard Johnson
US, Carrboro NC
Profession: Technical Writer
Red Hat, Inc.

 > 5. Your goals in the Fedora Project
 >
 >    * Which packages do you want to see published?

I would like to provide and maintain the following (mostly
DocBook-related) packages for Fedora:

- docbook-html-forms
- docbook-jrefentry
- docbook-mathml
- docbook-simple
- docbook-slides
- docbook-slides-demo
- docbook-website
- mathml-dtds
- html-dtds-4.01

I package and maintain all of the above (except for html-4.01) for the
Debian Project, so I could do many of the updates/bug fixes on both
Fedora & Debian packages at the same time. Timeframe: a month or so.

 >    * Do you want to do QA?

I'd like to, but I simply don't have the time.

 >    * Anything else special?

Nope.

 > 6. Historical qualifications
 >
 >    * What other projects have you worked on in the past?

I've been a Debian developer for about five years now, mostly
concentrating on packaging XML & SGML resources. I also serve as
editor/author of the Debian XML and SGML policies. [1,2] In
particular, I worked closely with a number of Debian XML/SGML
developers on the design & implementation of fully standards-compliant
XML catalog system, complete with packaging tools that simplify the
registration of XML resources in the Debian XML catalog system.

I also serve as the official Debian delegate to OASIS [3] - the
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards -
where I serve on both the DocBook Technical Committee and the Entity
Resolution Technical Committee. The latter being the body that
developed the XML Catalogs specification. [4]

I'm a member of the DocBook Open Repository at Sourceforge, though
have been largely inactive lately due to other committments.

I was also involved in a project to form a FreeStandards [5] LSB [6]
Workgroup tasked with developing XML & SGML modules for the LSB
Standard. Unfortunately, the project never got off the ground due to a
lack of funding. If necessary, I can provide links to many of the
documents associated with the project, and to the mailing list
archives, as well.

 >    * What computer languages and other skills do you know?

I'm very familiar with authoring documents in DocBook, and have
developed a package [7] that turns GNU Emacs into a very user-friendly
XML/SGML editing environment. The package is meant to make it easy for
new Emacs users to quickly get up to speed writing in DocBook. I have a 
page of links [8] to some of the docs/stuff I've worked on/written.



 >    * Why should we trust you? <--- too blunt?

For a number of reasons:

     - I'm a well-established member of the free software/open source
       development community. (Google me and XML.)

     - I work for Red Hat, Inc., and so it's in my own best interest to
       make a positive contribution to the Fedora project.


 > 7. GPG KEYID and fingerprint
 >
 >    * Be sure that your GPG key is uploaded to pgp.mit.edu.

Done.

 >    * Your GPG fingerprint

mjohnson$ gpg --fingerprint C07DE242
pub  1024D/C07DE242 2003-11-26 Mark Johnson (harco) <mrj at debian.org>
      Key fingerprint = DBEA FA3C C46A 70B5 F120  568B 89D5 4F61 C07D E242
sub  1024g/FCE2BA69 2003-11-26

Thanks,
Mark


References:

[1] http://debian-xml-sgml.alioth.debian.org/xml-policy/
[2] http://debian-xml-sgml.alioth.debian.org/sgml-policy/
[3] http://www.oasis-open.org
[4] 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/4952/wd-entity-xml-catalogs-1.0_2e.html
[5] http://www.freestandards.org
[6] http://www.linuxbase.org
[7] http://dulug.duke.edu/~mark/psgmlx
[8] http://www.duke.edu/~mark
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Mark Johnson                     <mjohnson at redhat.com>
Red Hat Documentation Group      <http://www.redhat.com>
Tel: 919.754.4151                Fax: 919.754.3708
GPG fp: DBEA FA3C C46A 70B5 F120  568B 89D5 4F61 C07D E242