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<div style="float: right;">__TOC__</div><big>'''Ian Weller'''</big> &mdash; <span class="plainlinks">[mailto:ianweller@fedoraproject.org ianweller@fedoraproject.org]</span><br>
<div style="float: right;">__TOC__</div><big>'''Ian Weller'''</big> &mdash; <span class="plainlinks">[mailto:ianweller@fedoraproject.org ianweller@fedoraproject.org]</span><br>
Contributor, Fedora Project<br>
Contributor, Fedora Project<br>
Intern and Doer of Stuff, [[Community Architecture]], Red Hat
Intern and Doer of Stuff, Fedora Engineering Team, Red Hat


[[#Contact|More contact information]] &mdash; [[/College schedule|College schedule]] &mdash; [http://blog.ianweller.org/ Blog]
[[#Contact|More contact information]] &mdash; [[/College schedule|College schedule]] &mdash; [http://blog.ianweller.org/ Blog]
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I'm currently a sophomore at the [http://www.ku.edu/ University of Kansas], majoring in [http://www.eecs.ku.edu/ computer science]. I was the [[Scholarship 2010|2010 recipient]] of the [[Scholarship|Fedora Scholarship]] and administrated the scholarship the next year.
I'm currently a sophomore at the [http://www.ku.edu/ University of Kansas], majoring in [http://www.eecs.ku.edu/ computer science]. I was the [[Scholarship 2010|2010 recipient]] of the [[Scholarship|Fedora Scholarship]] and administrated the scholarship the next year.
== Major stuff I did ==
; Helped with the transition from MoinMoin to MediaWiki for fedoraproject.org/wiki.
: Looking back on it, I didn't help as much as I would have liked to. At the time, I knew zero Python, but I was able to help [[User:Mmcgrath|Mike McGrath]] and others understand the paradigms of MediaWiki and its syntax. I then helped the [[Docs Project]] and others with their own use cases for the wiki. Some call me the "wiki czar" (see [http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fedora-wiki/2009-January/000089.html this mailing list post]), but I hardly think I deserve that "title." I currently put a significant amount of my Fedora-related focus to keeping the wiki a good place for collaboration within the Fedora Community, helping out where I can (and understand).
; Designed the current [[business cards]] used by Fedora contributors and wrote an application to generate them.
: I produced new, standardized versions of business cards for contributors. [http://ianweller.fedorapeople.org/business-cards/ Multiple versions were produced] based on feedback from the community. I then wrote a Python application, [http://fedorapeople.org/gitweb?p=ianweller/public_git/fedora-business-cards.git;a=summary fedora-business-cards], that downloads a contributor's data from FAS and automatically generates print-ready files for the front and back of the card.
; Provided a [[FedoraProject:Translating|sane system for translations on the wiki]].
: I ported some templates from [http://www.mediawiki.org/ mediawiki.org] to aide translators in keeping to a set scheme of how translated pages should be laid out on the wiki. Before this change, pages were laid out in different systems depending on the language they were in. The new system makes translated versions of pages easier to find and easier to contribute to.


== Major stuff I'm working on now ==
== Major stuff I'm working on now ==
* Fedora brand guidelines update &mdash; [[User:Ianweller/Brand guidelines (draft)]]
* See [[/Projects]]
* Running the logo@fedoraproject.org request queue
* Automating data analysis within free software communities &mdash; [http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=datanommer.git datanommer]


== Contact ==
== Contact ==
* '''IRC''': ianweller on freenode &mdash; You can find me in most Fedora-related channels. I like to keep things out in the open, so please ask before you privately message me.
* '''IRC''': ianweller on freenode &mdash; You can find me in most Fedora-related channels. I like to keep things out in the open, so please ask before you privately message me.
* '''Email''': ianweller@fedoraproject.org or iweller@redhat.com &mdash; prefer the fedoraproject.org email
* '''Email''': ianweller@fedoraproject.org or iweller@redhat.com &mdash; prefer the fedoraproject.org email

Revision as of 20:52, 8 February 2012

Ian Weller — ianweller@fedoraproject.org

Contributor, Fedora Project
Intern and Doer of Stuff, Fedora Engineering Team, Red Hat

More contact information — College schedule — Blog

Background

I began contributing to the Fedora Project as a packager in late 2007 (I was sponsored in early 2008). I soon stopped being able to find packages that I knew how to work with and started diving into other parts of Fedora, notably the Art Team (now the Design Team). From there I became more and more involved and, as they say, the rest is history. (You may now remove your cliché-blocking sunglasses.)

I'm currently a sophomore at the University of Kansas, majoring in computer science. I was the 2010 recipient of the Fedora Scholarship and administrated the scholarship the next year.

Major stuff I'm working on now

Contact

  • IRC: ianweller on freenode — You can find me in most Fedora-related channels. I like to keep things out in the open, so please ask before you privately message me.
  • Email: ianweller@fedoraproject.org or iweller@redhat.com — prefer the fedoraproject.org email
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