Introduction

[Mike McGrath]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, lee at williams-freelancing.co.uk wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Looking at the wiki it says to introduce myself.
>
> Well here goes...
>
> I'm married with 3 kids (aged 4, 2, 1 :D)... full time job but I do get time to spare surprisingly!!!!  I love my family
> to pieces they mean the world to me.
>
> I've been working in IT for 10yrs now all in a Microsoft DOS / Windows based environment, starting with development in
> FoxBASE and FoxPro and moving through the versions to visual fox.  I've not attended university but have never had a
> problem with reading / googlin' bits to learn new things; I do get quite a kick from picking up "new to me" technologies
> and helping to solve problems. 
>
> Currently I work full time as a Visual Studio developer with Technology Management Ltd. in the UK developing .NET
> applications for the WinCE / Windows Mobile based mobile device market.  Those applications are mainly written in C# but
> we do have a significant VB.net code base.
>
> Following the latest Microsoft based OS crash at home a rebuild has become necessary which I started this weekend -
> yesterday in fact, so I made the choice to make Linux my main OS; to be fair it should've been from when I dabbled with
> Fedora 7 and 8 thereafter... still... my foot has gone down, and my wife is scheduled a tour of Fedora at the weekend
> ;)  
>
>
> I have recently bootstrapped myself to other languages C / C++ and php for web work I'm finding this interesting to say
> the least.  I do have some experience with Apache and MySQL (obviously the strong knowledge I have in Internet
> Information Services and SQL Server have been somewhat transferable).  It looks like I need to add python to the list of
> things to learn and this is something I've been mulling over so may just make that leap. 
>
> From all of that I'm hoping you can tell that whilst I have very little experience with 'nix environments I am keen to
> learn just need some guidance on where to go to pick that up.
>
> Away from PC's (if there ever is such time) I play guitar - well I play guitar, banjo, and mandolin to be honest.  The
> last two I'm not so hot at but I can "hold my own" - to coin a phrase - on the guitar.  I also love to read; and have -
> of all things - recently started dabbling in magic and performance thereof but... now I'm rambling :D
>
> I look forward to helping in whatever way I can.  I'm looking for a good place to start, I'm obviously following the
> wiki, reading up when I can, and of course getting my own Fedora environment setup (although I do have one running in
> VirtualBox at work to satiate the 'nix desires whilst I'm at work :D).
>
> I'm am currently hoping to help in the sysadmin-devel FIG.
>
> So hello nice to "meet" and greet, and I hope you're well.
>

Ahh excellent.  We can always use more hands and eyes in sysadmin-devel.
Stop by #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net and say hey.  Was there a
specific application you were interested in working on?

	-Mike