self-intro: Craig Sebenik

[Craig]

Name: Craig Sebenik
IRC: --
Location: San Mateo, CA
Profession: Systems Engr (half way between SW dev and "IT")
Company: 4info

 >>> What do you want to help out with?

I've just recently started playing with the "internals". I would love to 
see most (all?) of the admin functions that are available thru the GUI 
also be available via CLI. I am making a number of changes to our 
install. We are staging the changes on a "test" install. Making the same 
set of changes in "prod" as I am making in the "test" install is going 
to be *tedious*, to say the least. I would prefer to just write a shell 
script.

Also, several months ago, I proposed using autoconf, but met with
some resistance. *I* think using "./configure; make install" would be 
beneficial, but there is plenty of other stuff to do.

Some other random stuff:
   - move all of data/params into the DB (???)
   - more consistent use of "fielddefs".
	It seems like some "field titles" are hard coded into the
	templates... but, I could be wrong.
   - move the help pages/data into the DB
   - there's more, but it's escaping me at the moment


 >>> Historical qualifications
 >>> What other technical projects have you worked on in the past?

Made one patch to Apache. :) But, that was a long time ago.

Previous companies (*cough* NetApp *cough*) weren't all that keen on 
contributing "back to the community". So, most of the code I worked on 
is not associated with any open source projects.

As far as "corp projects", it has ranged from simple stuff (sysadmin 
tools) to semi-large web apps. This includes integrating with 3rd party 
apps (ERP, CRM, <insert corporate TLA here>), SSO, WebLogic, MySQL, 
Oracle, etc. Mostly in Perl and Java. (Did write a significant piece in 
C with Apache's filter mechanism.)


 >>> What level and type of computer skills do you have?

I would *like* say my skills are at a pretty high level, but I guess 
that depends on your perspective. Most apropos; my perl skills are very 
good. (I don't mess around with the perl internals, but I like to think 
my perl is pretty strong.) I have written semi-large apps (~10k lines) 
all in "OO perl".


 >>> What other skills do you have that might be applicable?
 >>> 	User interface design, other so-called soft skills (people
 >>>	skills), etc.

I am pretty anal about documentation, but not all that great at it. ;)