Hello @theloudspeaker! Welcome to Fedora!
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Then, 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)
In the meantime, these links would be a good read. 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:
If you have any questions at all, please ask! We'll use this ticket to keep in touch! :)
Hey @theloudspeaker, I was exploring the welcome tickets here and I discovered that we are yet to hear your introduction from you. Please feel free to drop your introduction as a comment under this ticket and in the mailing lists.
EDIT - By any chance if you are done introducing yourself, please drop a link to your mailing list thread where you introduced yourself here as a comment.
Thanks
Hey @t0xic0der Thanks for the reminder. so here goes the introduction:
About me: I am a Linux enthusiast and a distro hopper from Hyderabad, India. Currently pursuing M.Sc. Physics.
Open Source background: I have been in Linux world since last 4 years and only distros that stayed on my system even after days and days of disto-hopping were Lubuntu and Elementary OS. (I somehow couldn't get Fedora to boot on my old laptop back then) So I decided to contribute back to them as I really liked them. Went to Lubuntu, fixed a couple of bugs, added a few features and I liked it very much. Became a fan of opensource world. Continued contributing and now I am an active member of the development team since December 2019.
Applied to Google Summer of Code 2020 for Debian's Android SDK tools project. It's a huge project and quite challenging as I had to wire my way around Debian's strict policies and third party add-ons in source of Gradle and Kotlin. It was a fun experience. And now I am a regular contributor to the team. Still working on same project. talked to people in #fedora-java about this.
Fedora and me: So after release of Fedora 33, I gave it a shot on my new laptop and I really liked the adoption of new technologies like BTRFS, wayland, pipewire, etc. and the amount of refined desktop environment, oh my god! trust me when I say this coz it's coming from a Ubuntu developer - Fedora does GNOME better. Soooo smooth.
Even though I have a pretty robust Ubuntu install on my laptop which hasn't moved in a year, I went ahead and put fedora in a separate partition because it was too good to not use. and I can't move from my comfortable Ubuntu setup. So I boot to fedora now when i am not doing any serious work. I even participated in kernel test week last month and helped with testing 5.11 for Fedora 33. Currently reading the docs you linked above.
Bottom line: I like fedora, I would like to contribute to it. Point me to anything you feel okay. I can work on cpp, python, java and kernel related things. (Did I mention I compiled a custom build of linux kernel with MPTCP enabled and use it as a daily driver? 😛)
Metadata Update from @t0xic0der: - Issue untagged with: C: Introduction requested - Issue tagged with: C: Progress check 1, S: Introduced myself
Hi,
It has been a while since the last time we heard from you. I hope you are doing well and I just dropped by to see if you have found something interesting to work on. :-)
We love interacting so please feel free to reach out to us if there are any questions/concerns that you may have regarding how you can contribute to our projects.
I know that you have been active in the Fedora India LUG and have been present in one of the video meets too - we appreciate that. Also, as @ankursinha mentioned, please subscribe to the Fedora India mailing list to stay in touch with all updates from our LUG and other contributors from the region.
Hey there,
We really hope that you were able to find something in the community that piques your interest (and if you were, we would absolutely love to hear about it). If not, please feel free to reach out to us with your questions/concerns and we would be glad to help you out. :-)
Metadata Update from @t0xic0der: - Issue tagged with: C: Progress check 2
Hope you are doing well and enjoyed your time with us at Nest With Fedora 2021. Should you have missed out on our talks, a recording of those would be made available very soon on our official YouTube channel. I reach out to know if you have found something exciting to contribute to and be a part of in the community. With that, I am marking this ticket with its third and final progress check.
Metadata Update from @t0xic0der: - Issue tagged with: C: Progress check 3 - Final
It has been a while since the last time we got to hear from you. As we are beyond the third and final progress check, I am going to go ahead and close this ticket. Please feel free to come back at any point in time to reopen this ticket, if you wish to continue on from wherever you left off.
Metadata Update from @t0xic0der: - Issue close_status updated to: C: Inactive - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open) - Issue tagged with: S: User unresponsive
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