Introduction

[Matthew Copple]

Good evening!

I am Matthew Copple. I'm rather new to Ubuntu, but I have used Linux since 
2000. Since 2003, I have pretty much lived my home life on a Linux 
workstation. Until now, I have contented myself with being a passionate Linux 
advocate and offering a helping hand to new Linux users. However, I'd like to 
get a little more active and contribute a bit more.

I considered packaging or doing some development work, but I have almost 
enough engineering talent to program my cable box, and not much more. I have 
a smattering of perl, a smidgin of bash, and a pinch of php, but not enough 
knowledge of anything in particular to be able to build applications with it.

I can write, however. I spent the last 18 months writing a paper a week to 
complete my bachelor's degree (ten years after I started it!), so my writing 
skills are about as sharp as they will ever be. In one of my several previous 
careers, I wrote quite a bit of training documentation using docbook-sgml and 
its toolchain, so I have exposure to both technical writing and the vagaries 
of Docbook.

If you have something that needs to be worked on, I'll be happy to tackle it. 
Should I just pick something interesting from the svn repo and start writing 
on it, or are there specific priorities that an experienced Linux user, but 
rather new Linux technical writer, might get started on?

Before I conclude, I just want to say "thanks" to the Ubuntu development 
community. I have used every major Linux distribution, and a lot of minor 
ones; among all those groups, I have found the Ubuntu community, both 
developers and users, to be the friendliest and most helpful. And the 
software rocks, too. :)

Thanks for reading. I look forward to contributing where I can!
-- 
Matthew G. Copple
mcopple at gmail.com
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