#42 Welcome to Fedora @ldavidson12!
Opened 2 months ago by ankursinha. Modified a month ago

Welcome

Hello @ldavidson12 ! Welcome to Fedora!

Before we begin, please subscribe to the Fedora join mailing list at
fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org
.
We use this list for general discussion, and it is also where the community
shares tasks that need help.

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. :).


Metadata Update from @ankursinha:
- Issue tagged with: S: Subscribed

2 months ago

Hi, I am Luke Davidson. Did a quick introduction on the mailing list already. Some more info on me:

I have been using Linux for about 10 years. Fedora has been my desktop of choice for a few years now, and lately the KDE spin. I also have a few Dell PowerEdge servers where I run Proxmox, hosting single k3s Kubernetes node (on CoreOS) and various CentOS Stream and Windows VMs. I am a Windows sysadmin now but looking to better my professional Linux sysadmin skills and move into Linux sysadmin work.

In my Windows sysadmin job, I luckily am "the Linux guy" and do have some professional experience administering Graylog + ElasticSearch servers on CentOS 7 and GitLab on Debian.

I have some personal experience running containers via k3s, docker, and podman. I've also done some container builds for personal Python projects. I do like the container ecosystem and would like to learn more about okd/OpenShift. I also enjoy automation and write a lot of PowerShell automation at my current job, and would like to do the same with Ansible. I'm experienced with git (may not have the best practice or convention as my git usage has been mostly solo) but I have worked bugfixes for Ansible and rhinstaller/anaconda where I submitted code and did get it merged.

I am very interested in helping out with any kinda of automation and sysadmin tasks and have been following the Infra team and NOC Matrix. I can volunteer anywhere between 10-20 hours per week.

Hi Luke,
You have some great skills. Have you been able to find an area of Fedora you would like to get more involved with?
Please let us know if you would like to be introduced to anyone or any area.
Wrapping your head around our upcoming Git system may be of interest https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-moves-towards-forgejo-a-unified-decision/ ?
Feel free to ask us anything you would like or need.
Cheers,
Mat

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

a month ago

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