#230 Welcome to Fedora @nekonya3!
Opened 2 years ago by t0xic0der. Modified 3 months ago

Welcome

Hello @nekonya3! Welcome to Fedora!

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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. :).


Hello there!

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

I am new to FOSS and this is my first time contributing to open source. I wish to learn and gain more skills from this experience. I had used open source design applications such as KRITA, inkspace, synfig studio and blender before, but I had not really attempted to report the bugs I had found or contribute to their code. I had always felt that only good developers do that and designers don't generally.

Background/skills:

I have been a part of Information Management Group (IMG) at my institute (IIT Roorkee, India) for the last 1 year. We, as a group, aim to design and develop applications for the students and faculty members of the institute to ease their institute life. I had been a part of the group solely as a designer but I had learnt frontend and backend development as a part of their training program in my first year (freshmen year).

I make use of Windows OS mainly. I had installed linux on my system but I haven't used it ever since I completed my learning of backend development and I found that I was more interested in design. But since I have linux on my system, I can always tap into it.

I am versed with design applications such as Figma and KRITA (ver. 4.0 to 5.0), and I have a fair idea about inkscape, Adobe illustrator and Adobe Photoshop and am open to learn new software. I have experience in animation applications such as Adobe Flash, KRITA and Figma. I am a music instrumentalist since I can play flute, keyboard, xylophone and Sitar. I have never really tried video editing or music mixing but because I am good at playing music, I have a good sense of tunes and notes, I am confident that with practice I can make good mixes and videos.
I am good at English and Hindi, but I know a bit of French and Japanese as well.

I am comfortable in using GitHub. I can pull off most of the major git command lines. I have learned about Web Development, though I feel design is my home.

In communication platforms:

I have received emails from google groups mailing lists before but I have never created one before. I have used discord, messenger, whatsapp, slack and telegram before but I am open to use any other new application.

I can devote around 25-30 hours per week on volunteering.

Metadata Update from @hhlp:
- Issue tagged with: I: Web sites, S: Introduced myself

2 years ago

Hello there! How are you doing? Is there anything we can help with?

Metadata Update from @ankursinha:
- Issue tagged with: C: Progress check 1

3 months ago

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