Hello @sgob! 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! :)
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:
your background/skills, for example:
your experience in communication platforms:
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. :).
@sgob already introduced themselves on Matrix:
Hello people, I'm Marco Sgobino, a CS student from Italy. I have been a Linux user for almost 5 years, with practically the entire time having a Fedora system installed somewhere. For sure, my main machine has been running Fedora for 4 years straight, while I sometimes toyed with other operating systems. I always install the Workstation edition, but I am also a happy user of Sway window manager. I really like this operating system, to the point I'm suggesting it to many friends and colleagues who want a much more flexible and powerful system or are willing to find alternatives to throwing their pc in the trash due to Windows planned obsolescence (despite not being labeled as 'lightweight distro' or 'minimal distro', Fedora runs well on decades old hardware). I would love to help the Fedora Project in some areas I could be inclined to, that are programming and package maintaining. I have knowledge in Java, C and C++ and I'm planning to learn some Python as well. I write bash scripts sometimes, although not in complex ways yet. In particular, I would like to start maintaining some packages I find useful, especially starship (which appears to not be in Fedora anymore from 37) and some Sway related utilities such as wallutils. I am willing to learn anything useful and anything required for the task, either from the programming/maintaining side and from the security/conventions of community side. Sadly, this semester is specially tough for me; I don't want to indulge in classic student's complaining, but I really have to focus on a big pile of exams before attempting serious work on Fedora Community. Still, I would like to get the feet wet with the community, following exchanges of messages, possibly learning required skills in midtime. I will be really glad to help the moment I have the chance in the future. What are the required skills and what are some useful places/informations to look up for the task I will carry? In which other areas can I help? Thanks in advance to all Fedora Contributors and Fedora People that make this software distribution not only possible, but also great.
Hello people,
I'm Marco Sgobino, a CS student from Italy. I have been a Linux user for almost 5 years, with practically the entire time having a Fedora system installed somewhere. For sure, my main machine has been running Fedora for 4 years straight, while I sometimes toyed with other operating systems. I always install the Workstation edition, but I am also a happy user of Sway window manager.
I really like this operating system, to the point I'm suggesting it to many friends and colleagues who want a much more flexible and powerful system or are willing to find alternatives to throwing their pc in the trash due to Windows planned obsolescence (despite not being labeled as 'lightweight distro' or 'minimal distro', Fedora runs well on decades old hardware).
I would love to help the Fedora Project in some areas I could be inclined to, that are programming and package maintaining. I have knowledge in Java, C and C++ and I'm planning to learn some Python as well. I write bash scripts sometimes, although not in complex ways yet. In particular, I would like to start maintaining some packages I find useful, especially starship (which appears to not be in Fedora anymore from 37) and some Sway related utilities such as wallutils. I am willing to learn anything useful and anything required for the task, either from the programming/maintaining side and from the security/conventions of community side.
Sadly, this semester is specially tough for me; I don't want to indulge in classic student's complaining, but I really have to focus on a big pile of exams before attempting serious work on Fedora Community. Still, I would like to get the feet wet with the community, following exchanges of messages, possibly learning required skills in midtime. I will be really glad to help the moment I have the chance in the future. What are the required skills and what are some useful places/informations to look up for the task I will carry? In which other areas can I help?
Thanks in advance to all Fedora Contributors and Fedora People that make this software distribution not only possible, but also great.
It'll be great to also send this to the mailing list etc, of course :)
Metadata Update from @alciregi: - Issue tagged with: S: Introduced myself
@sgob already introduced themselves on Matrix: Hello people, I'm Marco Sgobino, a CS student from Italy. I have been a Linux user for almost 5 years, with practically the entire time having a Fedora system installed somewhere. For sure, my main machine has been running Fedora for 4 years straight, while I sometimes toyed with other operating systems. I always install the Workstation edition, but I am also a happy user of Sway window manager. I really like this operating system, to the point I'm suggesting it to many friends and colleagues who want a much more flexible and powerful system or are willing to find alternatives to throwing their pc in the trash due to Windows planned obsolescence (despite not being labeled as 'lightweight distro' or 'minimal distro', Fedora runs well on decades old hardware). I would love to help the Fedora Project in some areas I could be inclined to, that are programming and package maintaining. I have knowledge in Java, C and C++ and I'm planning to learn some Python as well. I write bash scripts sometimes, although not in complex ways yet. In particular, I would like to start maintaining some packages I find useful, especially starship (which appears to not be in Fedora anymore from 37) and some Sway related utilities such as wallutils. I am willing to learn anything useful and anything required for the task, either from the programming/maintaining side and from the security/conventions of community side. Sadly, this semester is specially tough for me; I don't want to indulge in classic student's complaining, but I really have to focus on a big pile of exams before attempting serious work on Fedora Community. Still, I would like to get the feet wet with the community, following exchanges of messages, possibly learning required skills in midtime. I will be really glad to help the moment I have the chance in the future. What are the required skills and what are some useful places/informations to look up for the task I will carry? In which other areas can I help? Thanks in advance to all Fedora Contributors and Fedora People that make this software distribution not only possible, but also great. It'll be great to also send this to the mailing list etc, of course :)
I got in touch with the mailing list as well.
Regarding my skills, I am tightly building my software development skills these months, in particular Java and C++ skills, plus some web programming skills. I also know C language and a bit of lua; I still have a lot to learn.
My main motivations for helping and contributing in Fedora are to learn new stuff, to help building the operating system I use and to get in touch with new, interesting people---the order of these three reasons doesn't matter.
I regularly enjoy both GNOME and Sway---I already got pointed to look at the Sway SIG (I heard they are building a new Spin out of Sway). As I already said, I would also like to maintain some packages I use or could use that are not present in the main repository.
I enjoy using the commandline, in particular zsh+starship, and in the past I used zsh+oh-my-zsh. My VCS of choice is git, with which I manage my (little) projects and classroom notes.
I am also able to manipulate images with GIMP at a basic level (no professional design skills); my drawing skills, instead, are close to zero.
Currently I cannot spend time contributing, a thing that will change as I settle down some engagments and obligations I currently have. I think that, after an initial time of sudden learning of new things, I might spend at least 4 hours a week contributing. My plan is to start slow and then adjust on some schedule I find comfortable to not mess up things in both life and Fedora.
I never used mailing lists before. This is my first use of a mailing list. I usually communicate through Telegram or Matrix.
I am going to send this to the fedora-join mailing list as well.
Metadata Update from @alciregi: - Issue close_status updated to: Duplicate - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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