Welcome

Hey everyone! My name is Andrew and I was most recently a junior Data Engineer. I've been a Fedora user for about a year now and it has effectively ended my distro hopping; I learned of Fedora simply by just searching up on good, stable Linux distributions. My main language is Python with experience in other DE related technologies and I'd love to get involved and contribute in anyway that I can.

Besides tech/work stuff, I enjoy gaming, reading murder mysteries, and recently have gotten into singing.

As for the other questions:

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

  • have you participated in FOSS before, or is this the first time?
    • I've resolved a few tickets before in a couple projects but never been integrated into a community.
  • how do you imagine your place in a FOSS community?
    • Ideally someone who gets to learn a lot, sate my curiosity about various topics that I didn't get to experience at work, and help other new members as they come along.

• your background/skills:

  • Operating System (Do you use GNU/Linux as your main OS? Is Fedora Linux your main distribution?)
    • Yes, I use the regular Fedora Workstation as my daily driver. Previously, I've used Ubuntu, PopOS!, and dabbled into EndeavourOS a bit.
  • non-software development: design (Inkscape/Gimp/?), music/video/podcasting, marketing, language proficiency
    • I don't have much non-tech skills that would be particularly relevant to Fedora but I do have some experience in music through piano lessons when I was younger and have been taking vocal lessons for over a year. I'm also fluent in Korean so if there is ever a push to getting a Korean translation for the docs I am sure I can be of use there.
  • software development related: command line, version control: git/hg/svn/?, rpm/packaging, programming languages/frameworks/utilities, testing, infrastructure/sysadmin
    • My day job was as a Data Engineer so I have experience or am familiar with the standard tooling used there alongside other stuff. More specifically:
    • My main languages are Python and SQL.
    • I've used a few mainstream databases (BigQuery, Snowflake, PostgreSQL)
    • In terms of noteworthy DE related frameworks and tooling I've experience in Airflow, dbt, PySpark, etc. I have done some quick personal projects using LlamaIndex too (e.g., text-to-SQL, video transcript summarizer). I've also built CLI tooling for my team/myself, though not always in the context of data engineering.
    • Some infrastructure experience, mainly with containerization using Docker, and to a lesser extent, Podman.
    • Finally for the rest of the miscellaneous items: I am familiar and/or have worked with teams using git, unit testing, in your typical agile environment.

• your experience in communication platforms:

  • have you used mailing lists before?
    • No, I haven't.

  • what is your preferred real time chat platform?

    • I don't have any in particular. Though as a random aside, I am always baffled why almost every place seemingly uses a different platform, forcing you to juggle between so many different apps (Discord, Slack, Telegram, Matrix/Element, etc.).

      Even in real life, it's always a hassle trying to keep in touch with people when they all use slight different stuff like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, KakaoTalk, among many others, even though we all have phones and can just text message. Anyway, that's it for my soapboxing!

  • have you helped with moderating/administering forums?

    • No, I have not.
  • how much time are you looking to/are you able to spend on volunteering (approximate hours per week)?
    • Anywhere between 5-10 hours, sometimes going over 15, sounds good to me.

Whew, that ended up being a lot. Looking forward to getting more involved and contributing - thanks!

This ticket has been migrated to the forgejo instance. Please find the new ticket here
https://forge.fedoraproject.org/join/WelcomeToFedora//issues/111