Michael Troutman works as a documentation specialist at LINBIT, an HA, SDS, and DR open source software company. In the spirit of the open source community in which LINBIT thrives, Michael works to help the LINBIT team document its software and its many uses so that it can be widely understood and used. Michael has an extensive background working in systems administration, networking, and technical support, and has worked with Linux since the early 2000s. Michael’s interest in writing goes back to an avid reading-filled childhood. Somewhere he still keeps a publisher’s rejection letter from a choose-your-own-adventure style novella, written when he was 10, set in the world of a then-popular science fiction role-playing game.