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#94 Welcome to Fedora Project, @im-jking!
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Hello @im-jking! 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. :).

I replied to this on the email list! The full introduction is pasted below.

"Hello!

My name is Ian, I'm an early-career computer scientist and am very interested in getting more involved in the FOSS community. I love software engineering of all kinds, from machine code to frontend, but am most experienced in C, React/TypeScript, Python, and a bit of Rust. I'm open to just about any contributions I can make - I would love to write some code, but also enjoy documentation and video production. I learned about the Fedora project from a classmate and have been daily-driving it for the past six months or so.

I haven't participated in the FOSS community for long, but have long been appreciative of it. I'd like to better contribute through my technical experience and learn alongside other community members. I'm experienced in most software engineering fundamentals (Git, Linux CLI, coding and testing) as well as some more specific areas (AI/Data Analytics, API development and usage, networking and network security). My preferred real-time chat platform is Discord or Matrix. I'm only able to commit to about 3-5 hours/week on this project as I feel out my general availability, but that may increase or decrease with time.

Excited to get involved,
Ian"

Hi @im-jking : how are you doing?

There's a lot of software development in Fedora. A lot of it is related to maintaining packages---so building, testing, and so on

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Joining_the_Package_Maintainers/

The community also builds lots of infrastructure to do all of this, so that's another avenue to look at.

Of course, supporting users, for example on Ask Fedora and outreach/tutorials and so on are more user-facing tasks that we do to.

If we can help with anything, please do let us know.

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

This ticket has been migrated to the forgejo instance. Please find the new ticket here
https://forge.fedoraproject.org/join/WelcomeToFedora//issues/94
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