Hello @sifer ! Welcome to Fedora!
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Hi everyone :D
My name is Aurélien, but you can call me Sifer (cause cypher was taken by someone else -_-).
I'm a French developer/student of 25 years old I work in a travel company that do travel packaging (hotel+flight) and for the student part I'm finishing my master degree in computer science. I live in Paris and I love travel, for the moment I only travelled in Europe and a little bit in the USA. Since this year I start climbing, and I enjoy it also I like playing video games (event if I haven't started 'Clair obscure' yet).
I discovered Fedora at my first university where Linux was mandatory to develop and to be easier for the staff to solve the possible issue on our system we all had to install Fedora. And ... I didn't like it xD. Because at this time I had a laptop with an Nvidia GPU and my laptop kept freezing. Hopefully in the staff there was a Linux Wizard that touch my laptop go to the grub, enter some weird command and after the problem disappear. So a year pass and I started to be more and more comfortable with Linux. For convenience, I switched to Ubuntu and two years after I started to use Arch (btw). Arch became my main OS due to the liberty that offer and the AUR. But now I'm back on fedora because I'm tired to always fix some dumb problem on my machine.
Fedora is my first FOSS community/ecosystem that I want to join and be active. The main reason is that the community seems friendly and also because I use Linux each day, so I want to participate to improve the tool that I use every day freely.
For my programming skill I'm used to developing with Golang, and typescript (Node.js) but I know pretty well C thanks to my course and school projects. I also use python sometimes but mainly for scripting. For the tool I use most of the time, the CLI (more convenient for me).
I never used a mailing list before to be honest, most of the time I prefer to use some chat like slack or discord and maybe matrix now :).
I aim to spend 3-7 hour per week to the project
Interesting. I like how first you knew about Fedora. The go to for most developers would prolly be Ubuntu, first started there too :) I got to know about fedora in the blogs/YT vids listing the best distros xD but never used it until I first contributed to it during the Outreachy internships. Currently using custom OS with sway for GUI.
It's great to have you here Sifer. You got skills that can be useful here, infrastructure maybe would fit? See what others are working on, ask questions, you'd prolly find where you can help.
I'm involved in the DEI initiatives, and also part of Join SIG.
Regards, Cornelius
On Fri, May 16, 2025, 4:55 PM Aur=C3=A9lien Aoustin pagure@pagure.io wrot= e:
sifer added a new comment to an issue you are following: `` Hi everyone :D My name is Aur=C3=A9lien, but you can call me Sifer (cause cypher was tak= en by someone else -_-). I'm a French developer/student of 25 years old I work in a travel company that do travel packaging (hotel+flight) and for the student part I'm finishing my master degree in computer science. I live in Paris and I lov= e travel, for the moment I only travelled in Europe and a little bit in the USA. Since this year I start climbing, and I enjoy it also I like playing video games (event if I haven't started 'Clair obscure' yet). I discovered Fedora at my first university where Linux was mandatory to develop and to be easier for the staff to solve the possible issue on our system we all had to install Fedora. And ... I didn't like it xD. Because at this time I had a laptop with an Nvidia GPU and my laptop kept freezin= g. Hopefully in the staff there was a Linux Wizard that touch my laptop go t= o the grub, enter some weird command and after the problem disappear. So a year pass and I started to be more and more comfortable with Linux. For convenience, I switched to Ubuntu and two years after I started to use Ar= ch (btw). Arch became my main OS due to the liberty that offer and the AUR. But now I'm back on fedora because I'm tired to always fix some dumb problem on my machine. Fedora is my first FOSS community/ecosystem that I want to join and be active. The main reason is that the community seems friendly and also because I use Linux each day, so I want to participate to improve the too= l that I use every day freely. For my programming skill I'm used to developing with Golang, and typescript (Node.js) but I know pretty well C thanks to my course and school projects. I also use python sometimes but mainly for scripting. F= or the tool I use most of the time, the CLI (more convenient for me). I never used a mailing list before to be honest, most of the time I prefe= r to use some chat like slack or discord and maybe matrix now :). I aim to spend 3-7 hour per week to the project `` To reply, visit the link below or just reply to this email https://pagure.io/fedora-join/WelcomeToFedora/issue/73
sifer added a new comment to an issue you are following: `` Hi everyone :D
My name is Aur=C3=A9lien, but you can call me Sifer (cause cypher was tak= en by someone else -_-).
I'm a French developer/student of 25 years old I work in a travel company that do travel packaging (hotel+flight) and for the student part I'm finishing my master degree in computer science. I live in Paris and I lov= e travel, for the moment I only travelled in Europe and a little bit in the USA. Since this year I start climbing, and I enjoy it also I like playing video games (event if I haven't started 'Clair obscure' yet).
I discovered Fedora at my first university where Linux was mandatory to develop and to be easier for the staff to solve the possible issue on our system we all had to install Fedora. And ... I didn't like it xD. Because at this time I had a laptop with an Nvidia GPU and my laptop kept freezin= g. Hopefully in the staff there was a Linux Wizard that touch my laptop go t= o the grub, enter some weird command and after the problem disappear. So a year pass and I started to be more and more comfortable with Linux. For convenience, I switched to Ubuntu and two years after I started to use Ar= ch (btw). Arch became my main OS due to the liberty that offer and the AUR. But now I'm back on fedora because I'm tired to always fix some dumb problem on my machine.
Fedora is my first FOSS community/ecosystem that I want to join and be active. The main reason is that the community seems friendly and also because I use Linux each day, so I want to participate to improve the too= l that I use every day freely.
For my programming skill I'm used to developing with Golang, and typescript (Node.js) but I know pretty well C thanks to my course and school projects. I also use python sometimes but mainly for scripting. F= or the tool I use most of the time, the CLI (more convenient for me).
I never used a mailing list before to be honest, most of the time I prefe= r to use some chat like slack or discord and maybe matrix now :).
I aim to spend 3-7 hour per week to the project ``
To reply, visit the link below or just reply to this email https://pagure.io/fedora-join/WelcomeToFedora/issue/73
Sorry for the delay. This week was kind of complicated with my exams. Anyway I had the time to see what the infrastructure team do. I'm definitely interested in joining the infrastructure team.
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