Hello @alimuhammad ! Welcome to Fedora!
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Hello Geeks,
I am Ali Muhammad, you can call me Mashally. I am from Egypt. When I was a kid I was very stunned by computers. Anyway, here I am now a computer science student, and because of the lack of understanding of most of the profs in Egypt about the topics that they don't understand, I mean there are many profs that teach a subject that they had never known about it before, he doesn't dig deep on it. So, that somehow makes the student just memories the subjects, and I was one of them in my first year in college, until I joined the community of Linux in my second year in college. I break my system many manyy times, and this made me search a lot on the internet, I spend, I swear, 4 days (That's my first time on Linux) just installing Debian on my computer, and when I run it.. That was a great day, I learned a lot a loot from this situation, including searching skills, and that increased my reading skills also. I loved OS subject, and I was the one in my class in this subject. Anyway, because I do have not a good education, I try to educate myself and find opportunities to increase my skills in programming, and I need to know people and make friends, that's why I joined here with you guys.
I am interested in packaging, creating open-source software, and some aspects of OS, like tracing processes.
I sure know version control, and I know well packaging, and almost (packaging) is my interest.
Thanks, Ali Muhammad
Please, I have some questions:
Please, I have some questions: How to reach the people here?
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How to find a mentor or a friend?
You've already found us all friends :)
There isn't usually one to one mentoring in FOSS communities. It's more a "many to many" relationship, and that's what we prefer. Everyone communicates and learns with lots of other people in the community who, in turn, learn from everyone.
If you have queries, ideas, just write them---in any community channel that you think fits the topic. This ticket here is an excellent place, for example.
If I don't know some materials, Can I find help here?
Sure---ask away! :100: (Don't ask if you can ask, just ask :P )
Hi @ankursinha I want to contribute to .NET software, Can you help me?
There's the DotNet SIG, so I guess you want to get in touch with them?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/DotNet
It depends on what you mean by "contribute to .NET software", though.
Fedora (and all Linux distributions) are "downstream". This means that we don't develop all the software that's included in the OS. We simply take FOSS tools that are out there and package them up to make the well integrated OS. So, for DotNet, for example, what the SIG does is package up existing DotNet software so that Fedora users can use it. They won't be developing it, and they won't necessarily be working on projects using the software since that's not in the scope of what the community does.
So, if you want to develop DotNet software, you need to get involved with their developers "upstream".
I hope that makes sense?
Yes, It now makes sense, Thank you so much @ankursinha for your great effort <3
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