Hello @yoshkamii! Welcome to Fedora!
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Metadata Update from @alciregi: - Issue tagged with: C: Introduction requested, S: Hello Fedora world
My name is Joshua Moore. I am currently an undergrad pursuing a bachelors in Software Engineering with one more semester left to complete. My time at university has been spent contributing to two NSF funded open source projects in wireless communications. I plan to stay at my current university to pursue a PhD in Computer Engineering starting in the spring of 2023.
As an undergraduate researcher i have been a part of two National Science Foundation (NSF) projects which are open source. As a part of these projects, i have helped build software related to an end to end wireless testbed using Software Defined Radios (SDR's), Documented procedures to follow, helped with outreach, attended conferences with the intent on networking and sharing my research, as well as other things.
At my University i started a Linux user group under our student IEEE group that people often use to engage in talks about open source, software projects, and news related to open source. It has been a rewarding experience to help build a small community of like minded individuals. We use discord and a bridged irc channel to communicate.
I have been using Linux as my daily operating system for around 10 years. In context, I upgraded from windows around my sophomore year in highschool. I have distro hopped countless times, but as of writing Fedora linux is my main OS.
non-software development: design (Inkscape/Gimp/?), music/video/podcasting, marketing, language proficiency I am proficient in markdown and RST to build documentation using readthedocs. I maintain my own personal website, as well as 2 project websites for open source projects.
software development related: command line, version control: git/hg/svn/?, rpm/packaging, programming languages/frameworks/utilities, testing, infrastructure/sysadmin
I am comfortable with command line and using version control. Programming Languages: C, C++, Go, Python, HTML, CSS, JS Familiar in: Socket Programming (Unix), Systems Programming in C, Docker, Helm, Kubernetes,Virtual Machines / Emulation, Custom Kernel configurations.
have you used mailing lists before? Yes
what is your preferred real time chat platform? Irc or Discord
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)? Around 6 hours a week to start.
Metadata Update from @yoshkamii: - Assignee reset - Issue untagged with: C: Introduction requested, S: Hello Fedora world
Metadata Update from @alciregi: - Issue assigned to yoshkamii - Issue tagged with: S: Hello Fedora world, S: Introduced myself
I am interested in working on machine learning or containerization for fedora. Is there someone that could mentor me in one of these areas, or explain the current challenges?
It'll be best to join the machine learning SIG and the containers SIG to see what's going on and talk to them to learn the current status of things. One-to-one mentoring isn't very common in the community because as volunteers it's hard to commit extra time to mentor folks individually. So generally, there's collective exchange of knowledge---you speak to everyone and everyone speaks to you. That way, people learn from everyone around them, and no one person becomes the point of contact/failure:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/ML
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/containers/preface/
note that we're a Linux distribution, so the focus of the ML SIG will be to make Fedora a good platform for ML---they may not be undertaking ML projects themselves as part of their Fedora contributions.
Hello @yoshkamii
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
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-join/welcome/welcome/#_workflow_summary
Regards.,
Metadata Update from @hhlp: - Issue tagged with: C: Progress check 1
@hhlp Thank you for checking! I have joined the desktop sig's chat and have been waiting for an opportunity to help with a task! I am still trying to learn how to navigate myself and help in the most effecient way
that's great. They also do a lot of their discussion over their pagure repo, and discussion.fp.o. Have you been keeping an eye on those?
Did you get a chance to get in touch with the machine learning and container folks? (I'm not in either team, so i don't quite know how they're doing)
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