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Please feel free to update the metadata of the ticket. We have lots of tags for you to note what you are interested in, for example: the "I" tags (for "interest").

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/fedora-join.lists.fedoraproject.org/
It's not beginner-friendly for me understand.
So I'm making an assumption that the lists the platform where people(community) connect & talk with each other right??

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).

You've also mentioned that I have to introduce myself in list
i don't get where do i introduce, like element, discord, telegram
also i've noticed there'r many text channels in it......so you know everything is overwhelming for me

could you please explain it

sry, if im asking too much qns🥲

Hello @thisisyaash
The https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/fedora-join.lists.fedoraproject.org/ website is where you can subscribe the Fedora Join mailing list; it is a web frontend to the mailing list, in simple terms.
As the name suggest, a mailing list is something that works with emails. Once subscribed, you will receive emails other people will send to the list. At the same time, if you write an email addressed to fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org, all the people subscribed to the mailing list will receive your email.

Nowadays mailing lists are a communication channel less used than in the past. Nowadays instant messaging (telegram, element/matrix, ...) is more attractive, but it has some drawbacks (i.e. lack of archives, it is difficult to keep track of topics and conversations, etc.) Also web forums/platforms (i.e. gitlab/github issue trackers) or the like are more user friendly.
BTW, mailing lists are still in use, and some projects or part of the developers still heavily use them. So, we suggest subscribing to the Fedora Join mailing list just as an exercise to familiarise yourself with the tool, even though you may never use it in the future :-)

To add to that:

Fedora uses lots of different communication channels:

• mailing lists
• discussion.fedoraproject.org
• chat.fedoraproject.org
• IRC
• tickets/pull requests/comments on various projects/repositories

These are a combination of synchronous (chat: where folks speak to each other pretty much in realtime) and asynchronous (e-mail/forum: where people communicate when they have time). We use both to make our conversations more accessible to everyone.

You can introduce yourself anywhere. We just suggest the mailing list to help people learn how to use them (as Alessio already noted).

On all of these platforms, different Fedora teams have their own spaces so that they can organise themselves and have discussions about topics relevant to them. The Join SIG has a mailing list and a chat channel, for example, and the goal of both is to help newcomers. The design team has their own list/forum tag/chat channel and so on.

All of this information should be in the links that we've given you, so we'd recommend you go through those first. if something is unclear or missing, please ask away.

Finally, when you find a team/tasks that you'd like to work on, you can get in touch with the team and introduce yourself to them---they can then help you find things to do.

Do note that in the community we don't assign tasks to each other. We're all equals, and no one will give others work to do. There's work to be done, and we all take on whatever we can, whatever interests us. So, please don't wait for people to assign you tasks---if you find something interesting, let people know that you'd like to work on it and ask for whatever help you need getting started.

Oh, that makes sense, thank you so much!!
I'll explore the team that matches with my interests and get in touch with the respective team.

Hi @thisisyaash,
Just wanted to check back in on how the exploring had gone and if you found everything you wanted to? If not, don't be afraid to reach back out.
-Mark

Hey guys,
I am a final year MS student, and I've been caught up in training sessions for the past few weeks, which has limited me and occupied me for the past weeks. So, I can't report anything on getting started.

I'm also having trouble finding the right groups to join or issues to work on. Could someone please assist me in finding a group that is relevant to my skills and interests?

Skills:
- Proficient in Java, Python, and Git
- Experienced in writing technical documentation from my previous open-source contributions
- Beginner level in GoLang and Shell Scripting
- 4 years of graphic designing experience using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Sorry that I couldn't report my inactivity earlier, and thanks for any support I get.

Hello,

It's perfectly fine to not be able to do things when you get busy. We're all volunteers, after all.

Have you had a chance to go through the information in the ticket? The links and so on? They should give you an idea of all the different teams/tasks around the community. The idea is for you to find something that interests you.

I've added some initial tags to the ticket to match your interests, but please feel free to modify them as you wish.

Yes, I've looked at some Fedora pages, especially this one( https://whatcanidoforfedora.org/en#designexclamation). It was very helpful with it's visually representation of groups.

Actually, I found that starting with only technical work contributions seemed too advanced for me, so I decided to try CommOps as Adrian suggested. I'm finding it interesting and currently going through the CommOps, getting familiar with what they do and how can I contribute.

thanks for the assist :)

Hi @ankursinha
I wanted to provide update on my current status
Thanks for assisting me in on-boarding, I joined Community Operations and I'm contributing to the documentation(s) and volunteered for f41 release party, also community is really welcoming, I really enjoy contributing and being a part of the team. I'm glad that I joined CommOps.

Also, @markrosenbaum @alciregi thank you for checking on me and assisting me in every way🙌🏼.

hi @thisisyaash , that's great to hear. Please do let us know if there's anything we can help with :)

Hello @ankursinha , hope you are doing great!
I've been contributing to Fedora Community Operations(CommOps) for the past few months.
Fixing issues, and updating documentations, everything is mostly non-technical.

I now want to contribute to other teams/projects as well, but I don't have proper idea of what exactly they are doing and whether I can keep with the team with my current resources.

I really appreciate if you can guide me through process for me!

Let me tell you what I've been doing recently for finding the other teams!

At first, Im interested in contributing to infra or rel-eng. But the matrix channel seems team-oriented and im not sure whether that's the right place to ask for volunteering for contributions. Also from my observations, I don't know how a beginner can contribute to those teams.
Also I've found many other teams but the community is big and it's overwhelming for to understand.

@ankursinha Honestly, I'm not sure which team to join, but I'd like to contribute to a more technical team. Could you provide an overview of which team might be the best?
(sorry for being direct) An introduction to a team would also be greatly appreciated if possible.

Just dropping the link here too, based on our discussion in the channel:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/GettingStarted

hey @ankursinha, I was going through the available groups in Fedora ;pagure

I noticed there's a group called "Fedora India", can I join that group? (am i eligible for that?)
is there any perks(perms, access..etc) for being a member of that group?

Hiya, I've added you to the group, but do note that it's inactive currently (I'm no longer based in India). So, it's looking for new folks to energise it and get it going again. There's also the Matrix channel here that you should hang out in:

https://matrix.to/#/%23india:fedoraproject.org

yup, thanks :)

Hi yaash,
This MatH theprogram

I'm just going through 'welcome to fedora' tickets and thought that gosh your has been open a while!
I'v eliked your contributions and enthusism, so i think you should get the 'I am Fedora' tag and we say you are one of us now :)

I'm new here too - newer that you in some ways!
I am a lot older though and have heaps of expereince in Community Ops and Volunteering, as well as a pretty good idea of Fedora. If you would like to discuss or collaborate on anything, or run any ideas past me I'm here.

Should I wind up your onboarding and give you 'I am Fedora'?

Cheers,
Mat

Hey MatH thanks for checking on my ticket!
and yes, I'm contributing to infra & commops team for the last 8 months.

like you said, I think it's about time we close this ticket and assign me the "I am Fedora" tag :D *waiting for this moment, hehe :P

I'm new here too - newer that you in some ways!
I am a lot older though and have heaps of expereince in Community Ops and Volunteering, as well as a pretty good idea of Fedora. If you would like to discuss or collaborate on anything, or run any ideas past me I'm here.

Understood, it's good to know you have my back. I would be happy to discuss or collaborate with you who is so much experienced than me. I still have lot to learn and I hope I can learn more from you. Looking forward to connecting with you soon!

If you ever need a helping hand in such tasks, ping me! I can help and learn as well :D

Done.

I have asigned you "I am Fedora". We are impressed with your commitment.

May I ask one last thing of you from this process, to give some feedback?
I know you found the wcidff website helpful. What did you think about the ticketting process and getting together with the groups for example?

I would say that this ticket system is actually good, not that I can think of any alternatives.
but the "finding team" part is kind of hard for me. of course, the community bonding is also great to connect with many people, make friends, help each other out and so on.

But for me, I was so focused on finding "friends" after joining a team, I didn't know why I was thinking like that. But finding friends in join-sig didn't came to my mind.

Also my ticket was the second one in this repo. I "assumed" that Ankur and other fellows are helping out new comers to on board and finding people to connect & collaborate is not on my mind that time. I also assumed everything starts after finding the suitable team.

In simple terms, I was thinking like
Ticket created (completing the onboarding steps as well) -> Finding Team -> introducing there -> attending meetings and so on!

Well, mostly everything was assumption from my side and I still think I should've asked about this or did better.

Also the one thing that come to my mind at first was, Fedora Project was different & huge.(IMHO)
We have our own applications such as pagure, bodhi, koji, fedmsg and so on. Also matrix chat is the one that I'm not familiar with. So at first everything was literally new for me. Obviously I was overwhelmed with dozens of information being showed in the screen.

I don't have any feedbacks tho, these are things that were on my mind at that time and over the time I got familiar with this community and it's structure. I spent my researching on teams and their projects, applications and talking with few members as well.

So in simple terms, my contribution journey got better gradually over time, not right away :)
and I really appreciate the time I spent on learning it over the time rather than thinking why I didn't understand it at first.