#228 Welcome to Fedora, @cybaright!
Opened 2 years ago by ankursinha. Modified a year ago

Welcome

Hello @cybaright ! 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. :).


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

Been an edge participant for many years, first ran a linux distro in mid 1990s when I was studying electronic engineering and run workstations and servers for many years in the 2000s : )

have you participated in FOSS before, or is this the first time?

Not very closely engaged previously

how do you imagine your place in a FOSS community?
your background/skills, for example:

community development and outreach, campaigning, journalism

I'm interested in the rpm distros, love Fedora as my desktop, Rocky on servers, I'm an IT generalist and I'm not sure yet how best to contribute to Fedora

Operating System (Do you use GNU/Linux as your main OS? Is Fedora Linux your main distribution?)

Yes, F35 on my main workstation, tablet etc and a baremetal f36 pre-release, interested in web apps, waydroid, would love to see fedora thrive on pine phone pro and see general success of fedora.

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

I can do quite a bit of most things, which I know probably doesn't help focus this intro much does it but it's true ha ha : )

your experience in communication platforms:

have you used mailing lists before?

um, yep : )

what is your preferred real time chat platform?

element/matrix

have you helped with moderating/administering forums?

no

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

minimal initially whilst I figure out if I have a niche or role at fedora, once engaged I could probably put a lot of time in over the longer term

I live in Australia. My Fedora motivation generally just stems from my enjoyment of using the OS, it's FFFF values and a desire to support, promote and be part of such a worthy and interesting global community product. In the past over many years as an electronics engineer and IT professional I've been a consumer of FOSS via fedora, centos etc, happy to give back a little if I can

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

Yes, I first tried Red hat (off a floppy from a PC magazine I think : ) ) and then Fedora Core in the early days, went for many years using Fedora as a primary desktop around the Fedora 6-10 era, back to windows for while whilst building and administering Centos servers, then recently decided to put Fedora back on my workstations and devices as part of a growing concern I have about some of the privacy, lack of openness and tracking issues etc on other OSs.

_* Area's of interest:

  1. mobility - phone/tablet. Pine Phone Pro
  2. strategic future of fedora/advocacy
  3. better touch screen support (onscreen keyboard needs customisable features and some apps eg vivaldi don't respond to text entry fields with keyboard popup after finger taps)
  4. Fedora in Australia
  5. Waydroid (option to run f-droid and auroa apps on fedora)
  6. web apps - like to see better process for installing on gnome (other than relying on chromium) and easier setup for dev environment on fedora for pwa javascript, html, css dev. Perhaps better links to pwabuider project to include flatpak as a destination of that project
  7. flatpak - love it, more tools to simplify conversion of existing apps to flatpak

*_

Hi, I'd like to join the ARM group and the Mobility SIG, what is the best process please?

Hello @cybaright

This is just a follow-up ticket, It's been a while and we don't know anything about you, we would like to know:

How are your Journey in the Community?
Do you have any block/impediment/problem?
Do you have any doubt?
Are you doing some task in the Community?

Please feel free write all this information in your ticket and contact any of us in any moment, we are here to help you in your trvale

references

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-join/welcome/welcome/#_workflow_summary

Regards.,

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a year ago

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