IRC is really important to contributing. <div><br></div><div>It's as simple as the following:</div><div><br></div><div>su -c 'yum install BitchX'</div><div><br></div><div>BitchX yournick <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>/join #fedora-join</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Dan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Leslie S Satenstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lsatenstein@yahoo.com" target="_blank">lsatenstein@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">Hi can I contribute if I do not use IRC (Freenode).<br>
<br>I find that my time is limited. I can read an email, so I do not have to be online to watch the chats. <br>I prefer to have some documents, code, executable, script thrown my way, and I can install and test same, or update /write good concise accurate documentation<br>
<br>I used to prgram in assembler, for speed and size, but currently do most of my coding in C or C++.<br><br>I do substantial writng on technical stuff, and when I reread it a few days later, I am impressed with how good it is. (Self praise is no glory, but good lucid explanations in grammatical sentence construction helps)<br>
<br>Some feedback please. Please mention Fedora-Join in the subject line. <br><div><div><div><div><div><div><b><font size="1"><span style="font-weight:bold"><br> </span></font><br><font><br></font></b><div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="FR-CA">Regards</span></div> </div> <div><b><font><br></font><font> Leslie</font><br></b></div> <div><font color="green"><b><font size="1">Mr. Leslie Satenstein</font><br></b></font><font style="color:rgb(191,0,95)" color="green" size="1"><span style="font-weight:bold">50 </span>years in Information Technology and going strong.<br>
Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day,<br>and tomorrow will be even better.<br> </font><font color="green"><br></font><font color="green" size="1"><font><a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:lsatenstein@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mailto:lsatenstein@yahoo.com</a></font><br>
alternative: <a href="mailto:leslie.satenstein@itbms.biz" target="_blank">leslie.satenstein@itbms.biz</a> <br><a href="http://www.itbms.biz" target="_blank">www.itbms.biz</a> <a href="http://www.eclipseguard.com" target="_blank">www.eclipseguard.com</a><br>
</font></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 8/21/12, Jayson Rowe <i><<a href="mailto:jayson.rowe@gmail.com" target="_blank">jayson.rowe@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px">
<br>From: Jayson Rowe <<a href="mailto:jayson.rowe@gmail.com" target="_blank">jayson.rowe@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Fedora-join] (no subject)<br>To: <a href="mailto:fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br>
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 8:13 PM<div><div class="h5"><br><br><div><p dir="ltr">This is the reply I sent Stephen, I meant to send to the list as well...</p>
<p dir="ltr">On Aug 21, 2012 7:42 PM, "Jayson Rowe" <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=jaysonr@fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">jaysonr@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Steward, Stephen<br>
> <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=stewards2@mailbox.winthrop.edu" target="_blank">stewards2@mailbox.winthrop.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> > I am a regular user of Fedora and want to contribute. I am a college student<br>
> > majoring in Computer Science. My knowledge of code is not that extensive,<br>
> > but it will get better as the semesters go on. I was looking into the<br>
> > Ambassador Project and thinking about being a Campus Ambassador. Are these<br>
> > things that a full-time college student would be able to handle? If not, are<br>
> > there any other areas that I could contribute?<br>
> > _______________________________________________<br>
> > fedora-join mailing list<br>
> > <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br>
> > <a rel="nofollow" href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-join" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-join</a><br>
> ><br>
><br>
> Hi Stephen,<br>
> Welcome! I see you go to Winthrop, awesome. I live in Darlington, SC<br>
> (work in Florence). I am an Ambassador, and the Ambassador project is<br>
> awesome. It's a good starting point, however you may want to get<br>
> involved in some other area first, to get to know some folks and just<br>
> kinda see how Fedora works. One thing you could do, is log into<br>
> #fedora-ambassadors on IRC (freenode) and say hi to everyone (I'm<br>
> jaysonr on freenode). Once you are sure you want to be an ambassador,<br>
> you can follow this process:<br>
> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_Join_start" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_Join_start</a><br>
><br>
> Another possibility is getting involved in some SIG's (Special<br>
> Interest Groups) that center around things you are interested in from<br>
> Fedora yourself (for example, I'm a member of the KDE, Ruby and Xfce<br>
> SIG's). I'm sure you may have seen this already, but here is a section<br>
> on the Fedora website about some of the areas where you can get<br>
> involved: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora</a><br>
><br>
> You will also want to go ahead and start creating a Wiki page (part of<br>
> becoming an Ambassador anyway), here is mine<br>
> (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jaysonr" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jaysonr</a>) and you can look at some<br>
> others as well.<br>
><br>
> All of my contact info is on my Wiki page, as well as this e-mail<br>
> address I'm sending from, so feel free to contact me anytime if you'd<br>
> like some guidance.<br>
><br>
> Above all, welcome to the Fedora community!<br>
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