Hello @raise ! Welcome to Fedora!
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Intro from the mailing list:
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Hi everyone, It feels wonderful to join you guys, it truly is a special moment. The bit about myself: In the past year I tried to understand how it really works, that is, a general purpose computer and an operating system. What I found is that "I know nothing", yet, I'm loving the journey. In this community, I know I'll get a solid grasp on design principles and find a way to get my hands dirty. For this, I thank you. My roots grow from system administration and just now are reaching out to THE programmer perspective. I'm looking at C and Python, when I say this should be the year in which I finally build up courage to understand and put them to practice. My hope is that in a couple of years I can give back to the community something truly valuable. What that is, is yet to be discovered. The alias is raise, the name is Octavian. Feel free to use either, a simple "O" works as well. Love, O
Hi everyone,
It feels wonderful to join you guys, it truly is a special moment.
The bit about myself: In the past year I tried to understand how it really works, that is, a general purpose computer and an operating system. What I found is that "I know nothing", yet, I'm loving the journey. In this community, I know I'll get a solid grasp on design principles and find a way to get my hands dirty. For this, I thank you. My roots grow from system administration and just now are reaching out to THE programmer perspective. I'm looking at C and Python, when I say this should be the year in which I finally build up courage to understand and put them to practice.
My hope is that in a couple of years I can give back to the community something truly valuable. What that is, is yet to be discovered.
The alias is raise, the name is Octavian. Feel free to use either, a simple "O" works as well. Love, O
Welcome again @raise , great to have you here. Please let us know how we can help.
Intro from the mailing list: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I5RNJML4WUD6BMPWW33GC4ORQJREW4DV/ Hi everyone, It feels wonderful to join you guys, it truly is a special moment. The bit about myself: In the past year I tried to understand how it really works, that is, a general purpose computer and an operating system. What I found is that "I know nothing", yet, I'm loving the journey. In this community, I know I'll get a solid grasp on design principles and find a way to get my hands dirty. For this, I thank you. My roots grow from system administration and just now are reaching out to THE programmer perspective. I'm looking at C and Python, when I say this should be the year in which I finally build up courage to understand and put them to practice. My hope is that in a couple of years I can give back to the community something truly valuable. What that is, is yet to be discovered. The alias is raise, the name is Octavian. Feel free to use either, a simple "O" works as well. Love, O Welcome again @raise , great to have you here. Please let us know how we can help.
Hi Ankur,
I went thru the initial links, quite interesting. At the moment I'm intrigued by the Package Maintainers branch, but I'll keep my eyes open and poke around for a "bit", that is, maybe a whole month.
To answer some of the get to know better questions:
This is my first participation in a FOSS project and I'm trilled about it. As for my part here, once [or if] I get the grasps on how it really works, maybe give back in form of a class and code maintenance/development. The ideal outcome would be that one free, high-quality manual Richard Stallman referred to. That's way out of reach, I've let my imagination fly for a moment.
So it happens that I use Fedora for roughly four years, it kind of grew on me and simply put, I like it. I'm somewhat familiar with the CLI, as any Linux admin is, with just one bash script - which was used in production during upgrade changes [yey]. In here I want to focus on a programming perspective - and languages, meaning that I need to learn git, C, Python, RPM, and more. This being said, I needs a lot of practice.
The reason that gave me enough courage to join a FOSS project was a recent interview experience. I've thought about joining for a couple of years, but it seems I needed some encouragement; and that was were the interview stood in.
As an estimation on hours per week, my plan is one hour a day, but for starters, I'll commit to only three or four, just to be sure I deliver. Maybe it's best to adjust after I'll find a project that I love and involves me.
Extra section, I enjoy reading philosophy and I'm a pop consumer of series like "How the universe works" or classes videos such as "The Great Courses".
That's all folks, O
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