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#103 Welcome to the Fedora project @blazingturtle33
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Hello blazingturtle33! Welcome to Fedora!

Before we begin, please subscribe to the Fedora join mailing list at
fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org.
We use this list for general discussion, and it is also where the community
shares tasks that need help.

These links are a good read to begin with. They tell you what the Free/Open
Source community is about, and then they'll introduce you to Fedora: what
Fedora is all about, and what we do, and of course, how we do it:

Next, when you're ready, could you please introduce yourself (preferably on
the list) so that the community can get to know you? (Interests, skills,
anything you wish to say about yourself really).

Finally, could you let us know how you learned about the Fedora project? Was it
from a colleague, or social media, for example?

If you have any questions at all, please ask! We'll use this ticket to keep in
touch! :)

Get to know each other better

In addition, could you provide some information to understand your requirements
better? (You can write them in the introduction, or answer here if you feel more
comfortable).

For example:

  • your experience with Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) communities/ecosystems:

    • have you participated in FOSS before, or is this the first time?
    • how do you imagine your place in a FOSS community?

  • your background/skills, for example:

    • community development and outreach, campaigning, journalism
    • Operating System (Do you use GNU/Linux as your main OS? Is Fedora Linux your main distribution?)
    • non-software development: design (Inkscape/Gimp/?), music/video/podcasting, marketing, language proficiency
    • software development related: command line, version control: git/hg/svn/?, rpm/packaging, programming languages/frameworks/utilities, testing, infrastructure/sysadmin

  • your experience in communication platforms:

    • have you used mailing lists before?
    • what is your preferred real time chat platform?
    • have you helped with moderating/administering forums?

  • how much time are you looking to/are you able to spend on volunteering (approximate hours per week)?

Remember that this is not a job interview at all. This is just an icebreaker to
help all your new friends get to know you quicker. The better we know you, the
better we can support you in identifying Fedora activities that promise to be
relevant for you.

Please write how much/whatever you wish. :).

blazingturtle33 commented

Hi everyone!

I've been a long time fedora user (since f39 if I remember correctly), decided its finally time to contribute back.

This is my first time being part of a FOSS community, so I'm still learning the ropes here. But I want to learn how to be an effective contributor in such a massive collaborative project. Also using this as an opportunity to grow personally.

I've been quite a huge tinkerer and I like to mess with all kinds of different technologies. Currently, i'm focusing on robotics. I have been using linux since 2016 and used to distro hop all the time and could never find anything stable and up to date, until I found Fedora and fell in love with it. Never once looked back after that. i've done basic SWE and SysAdmin in HPC env and i'm fairly comfortable with command line, git, etc. My language of choice is Python. Currently finishing up with my Masters in AI. I am also somewhat of a privacy nut and an advocate for Safe and Ethical AI.

I've never used mailing lists before since I don't really like email as a communication medium, so that will be fun to learn haha. Regarding communication platforms, anything e2ee works for me. I don't have any moderation or administration experience either, the closest thing I did to participating in online communities was being really active on Yahoo Answers haha.

With regards to time, I'm not sure yet. Currently working on my thesis, so I don't have a lot of time to contribute, But maybe 4-6 hours a week for now. Before that, I have a lot of reading to do and learning about how the individual teams work, and even try to (embarrassingly) get used to matrix.

Personally I think I would like to work on some sysadmin stuff/ monitoring and scripting stuff/ AI stuff but I'm also using this opportunity to learn new things, so I will be lurking as many of the sub communities as I can. See you there!

  • bt33

Metadata Update from @ankursinha:
- Issue untagged with: C: Progress check 2
- Issue tagged with: S: Getting to know Fedora

Metadata Update from @ankursinha:
- Issue untagged with: C: Introduction requested
- Issue tagged with: S: Introduced myself

Hi bt33, welcome! Great to have you here.

Please let us know if there's anything we can help with at all. I've added some interest tags for you now, but please edit them as you see fit as you explore the community :thumbsup:

Metadata Update from @ankursinha:
- Issue tagged with: I: Data Science, I: Python, I: Robotics

Hello, how is it going? What can we help with?

Metadata Update from @joshuabvarghese:
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

Metadata Update from @ankursinha:
- Issue status updated to: Open (was: Closed)

Re-opening. Please close with a reason/status tag.

This ticket has been migrated to the forgejo instance. Please find the new ticket here
https://forge.fedoraproject.org/join/WelcomeToFedora//issues/103
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