New list member introduction
by Anthony Papillion
Hello Everyone!
I'm Anthony, a long-time Fedora user (since the days of Fedora Core) and
a huge fan. As a software developer, I've been considering volunteering
for the project for quite some time but never seem to find enough time
to write and debug enough code in my spare time to make contributing in
that area worthwhile for the project. So I've been looking for other
ways to contribute to the project and I think that CommOps might just be
it! So this, hopefully, will serve as my introduction to the community
and I truly look forward to getting to know everyone and contributing to
making Fedora and the community even better.
A bit about me: I'm 42, live in Oklahoma with my dog and two cats. Own a
small software development and technology services company and enjoy
playing piano, geocaching, and cooking for fun. Of course, I've got a
passion for technology with Linux being nearest and dearest to my heart.
I started with the system back in the old Red Hat Linux days, still use
RHEL and have added Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch to the mix for fun.
Anyway, I do hope that's enough. Look forward to meeting everyone.
Anthony
4 years
Greetings, new member of CommOps
by David Eisenstein
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Hello,
My name is David Eisenstein, and I am interested in doing contributions
to the Fedora Project. I am familiar with Fedora, and have run a couple
of versions of Fedora, just not recently. I do run a couple of versions
of CentOS (6 and 7) on virtual machines on my home PC, utillizing Fedora
EPEL packages. (I prefer running CentOS because there is a lot more
stability and much longer life-cycle than Fedora. Will get going with
Fedora VM though soon.)
I used to be a contributor to Fedora, a number of years ago. The project
was called Fedora Legacy, and I was quite active with it for a couple of
years -- creating SRPM and RPM packages, tracking down security issues,
doing QA, working with Jesse Keating who worked for a number of years
for Red Hat as the Fedora Release Engineer. Have kept up my Linux skills
and am wanting to (re)start giving back to the community as well as hone
my Linux skills to help me qualify for work in the DevOps field or
something similar with Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. Am studying to
become (at least) RHCE certified, at present.
I have already a wiki page at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DavidEisenstein
which has information about what I used to do in the old dead Fedora
Legacy Project. (I cannot yet edit that page to reflect any association
with this group.)
And, for historical sake, in case anyone is curious, here is a link to an
archived page of the old fedoralegacy.org, as it existed at this time
approximately 11 years ago when it was a vital project:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060410131351/http://fedoralegacy.org/
and from there, the curious can click links to see the old MoinMoin
Fedora Legacy wiki pages:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060411170211/http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L...
Anyway, I once again would like to contribute to the Free Software
effort. Looking forward to getting to know you all better, figure out
how I can fit in, and once again getting my hands dirty helping out with
Fedora work.
Cheers,
David
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4 years
What would have helped you first contribute to Fedora?
by Justin W. Flory
Hey everyone,
In our meeting today, we made some progress on the FOSS Student Pack
idea. We narrowed down the purpose and what the objectives are for the pack.
The next step we decided to take was to start making a list of questions
that we want the pack to solve. The benefit of doing this is for two things:
(1) Identify the problems or things we can focus on in the pack
(2) Later pick specific tools or resources to answer questions
It will help a lot if you could come up with some ideas of questions of
your own that would be helpful to recommend to someone who is getting
started contributing to open source or Fedora. Please leave a comment in
the Pagure ticket with some ideas of your own!
https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/70#comment-435022
At the next meeting, we'll discuss some of these questions and begin
piecing "v1.0" of what this pack could look like.
Thanks everyone!
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
4 years
[fedora-commops] Issue #70: FOSS Student Pack
by Justin W. Flory
jflory7 added a new comment to an issue you are following:
``
_Discussed in [2017-04-04 meeting](https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-04-04/comm...
We made some good headway on this ticket during the meeting. I'm going to summarize some of the points from the last meeting, this meeting, and also clarify on what we need to do next. And we need your help!
## What this pack is
The pack is intended to be a resource for university students to discover tools and services available to help them contribute to open source. It introduces them to tools (also available in Fedora) and services (available in Fedora's infrastructure) to enable them to be successful in contributing to open source. The pack's focus is general and broad.
* **Primary objective**: Provide tools / services helpful to university students working on open source
* **Secondary objective**: Get students familiar with Fedora resources, community, ecosystem
## What this pack is not
This pack is not intended to be a magnet or tool to attract contributors to Fedora. It is not intended to take over other on-boarding practices or resources in the community (e.g. whatcanidoforfedora.org, Join SIG, etc.). This pack isn't specifically encouraging someone to contribute to Fedora and should be helpful for working on any open source project. They may decide to contribute to Fedora or they may decide not to.
## What questions do we want answered?
The next part of the meeting was figuring out what steps are next to take. We'd like to start asking example questions to help guide what we include and recommend in this pack. This questions will help us first identify the problems or things we could focus on in the pack, and will then let us pick specific tools or resources to recommend for solving those problems.
These are some questions I came up with, but it's not complete. **We need your help with questions too! Please feel free to suggest some of your own as a comment in the ticket, and we will discuss more next week.**
1. Where can I host my code?
2. How can I get experience with Linux servers?
3. What are good tools or editors for working with {Python, Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc.}?
4. What's helpful for me to test out building RPMs if I want to make a package?
5. What can I use for task management (e.g. Kanban)?
6. Where can I ask questions and get help about Fedora?
``
To reply, visit the link below or just reply to this email
https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/70
4 years
[Minutes] [2017-04-04] Getting FOSS-y with the student pack
by Justin W. Flory
Hey CommOpsers! Today's meeting just wrapped up to a close.
This week, I was late to put together the agenda, so we only discussed
one ticket, on the FOSS Student Pack. The minutes should describe it
well, but keep an eye out for one more email in a little bit. We'll need
your help to brainstorm the next part. :)
Thanks everyone!
= = = = =
Meeting ended Tue Apr 4 17:35:22 2017 UTC.
Minutes:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-04-04/commops.2017-...
Minutes (text):
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-04-04/commops.2017-...
Log:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-04-04/commops.2017-...
* * * * *
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#fedora-meeting: Fedora CommOps (2017-04-04)
============================================
Meeting started by jwf at 16:31:10 UTC. The full logs are available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-04-04/commops.2017-...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Agenda (jwf, 16:31:23)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:CommOps_2017-04-04
(jwf, 16:31:28)
* (1) Roll Call / Q&A (jwf, 16:31:32)
* (2) Announcements (jwf, 16:31:35)
* (3) Action items from last meeting (jwf, 16:31:39)
* (4) Tickets (jwf, 16:31:42)
* (5) Community Blog (jwf, 16:31:46)
* (6) Open Floor (jwf, 16:31:50)
* Roll Call / Q&A (jwf, 16:31:59)
* Name; Timezone; Sub-projects/Interest Areas (jwf, 16:32:00)
* ACTION: commops New members, make sure you introduce yourself on the
CommOps mailing list [ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps/Join ]
(jwf, 16:32:05)
* Alberto Rodriguez S; UTC-5; Commops, Metrics, dotnet, infra (bt0,
16:32:10)
* Eduard Lucena; UTC -3; Marketing, Magazine, Infra, Ambassadors
(x3mboy, 16:32:33)
* Justin W. Flory; UTC+1; CommOps, Marketing, Magazine, Ambassadors,
Diversity, sysadmin-badges (jwf, 16:32:35)
* Announcements (jwf, 16:37:51)
* === Fedora 26 Alpha releases today === (jwf, 16:37:55)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-26-alpha-available-now/
(jwf, 16:37:59)
* The Fedora 26 Alpha releases today (in fact, right now, at 14:00
UTC). Help spread the word by sharing the Fedora Magazine article.
Thanks ryanlerch++ for helping coordinate the short announcement.
(jwf, 16:38:17)
* === "Fedora at SCaLE 15x (2017) Event Report – Pasadena, California"
=== (jwf, 16:38:22)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/scale-15x-event-report/
(jwf, 16:38:26)
* The event report from SCaLE 15x, which has feedback from booth
attendees about Fedora. Mentioned was lack of awareness of Raspberry
Pi + Fedora (better coverage in a release? making it its own lab?).
Additionally, a lot of people were surprised about GNOME Boxes for
virtualization and were excited by. A gap to fill? (jwf, 16:38:29)
* Action items from last meeting (jwf, 16:40:16)
* LINK:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/commops/commops.2017-03-07-17.30....
(jwf, 16:40:23)
* How This Works: We look at past #action items from the last meeting
for quick follow-up. If a task is completed, we move on to the next
one. If it isn't, we get an update and re-action it if needed. If no
status, we'll try to get a quick update and move forward. (jwf,
16:40:29)
* === jwf Start thread on CommOps mailing list (CC: bexelbie) on the
best way to store and host a "directory" or database of Fedora
contributors actively involved with EDU efforts === (jwf, 16:40:34)
* ACTION: jwf Start thread on CommOps mailing list (CC: bexelbie) on
the best way to store and host a "directory" or database of Fedora
contributors actively involved with EDU efforts (jwf, 16:40:47)
* === [COMPLETE] x3mboy Follow up with LATAM Ambassadors about if a
CommBlog article suffices for reimbursement, update ticket #21 with
feedback === (jwf, 16:40:51)
* LINK:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/commops@lists.fedoraproject...
(jwf, 16:40:57)
* === [INCOMPLETE] jwf Update ticket #21 with proposed guidelines
based on agreed objectives/goals for pre- and post-event reports ===
(jwf, 16:41:29)
* ACTION: jwf Update ticket #21 with proposed guidelines based on
agreed objectives/goals for pre- and post-event reports (jwf,
16:41:36)
* Tickets (jwf, 16:44:43)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issues?tags=meeting (jwf,
16:44:48)
* === Ticket #70: "FOSS Student Pack" === (jwf, 16:44:54)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/70 (jwf, 16:44:59)
* AGREED: Intended target audience for a "Fedora Student Pack" would
be university students, which compliments the Fedora Marketing
efforts and also allows us to shape our content and language to be
friendlier to a specific audience (this can be repurposed or
retooled later) (jwf, 16:47:50)
* AGREED: Primary purpose is to provide tools / services helpful to
university students working on open source; secondary purpose is get
students familiar with Fedora resources, community, ecosystem (jwf,
17:11:03)
* AGREED: Purpose is not to be a magnet to attract newcomers – best
left to other initiatives like whatcanidoforfedora.org / Join SIG
(jwf, 17:11:32)
* AGREED: First steps to begin "building" the pack: what questions do
we want this FOSS Student Pack to answer? (jwf, 17:11:51)
* IDEA: What are good editing environments or tools for working with
Python? (jwf, 17:12:37)
* IDEA: What's helpful for me to test out building RPMs if I want to
make a package? (jwf, 17:12:53)
* IDEA: Where can I host my code? (jwf, 17:14:07)
* IDEA: What are good tools for working with
{Python,Java,C,C++,C#,Ruby,Rust,Go,JavaScript,etc.}? (jwf,
17:15:08)
* IDEA: What can I use for task management (e.g. Kanban)? (jwf,
17:16:28)
* IDEA: How can I get experience with Linux servers? (jwf, 17:18:50)
* IDEA: Where can I ask questions and get help about Fedora? (jwf,
17:19:40)
* ACTION: jwf Add comment to ticket #70 explaining our discussion and
focus of student pack, give examples of questions, post to mailing
list asking for comments (jwf, 17:21:06)
* Community Blog (jwf, 17:22:53)
* How This Works: There is a quick blast of information about what was
published in the past week with some metrics, followed by posts that
are being drafted. After the information blast, the floor is opened
for any Community Blog-related discussion. Here we go! (jwf,
17:23:00)
* === This Week in CommBlog === (jwf, 17:23:05)
* (1) "Fedora Activity Day, Bangalore 2017" - a2batic++ (jwf,
17:23:10)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-activity-day-bangalore-2017/
(jwf, 17:23:14)
* Total Views (March 28 - April 4): 56 (jwf, 17:23:20)
* LINK:
https://wordpress.com/stats/post/3590/communityblog.fedoraproject.org
(jwf, 17:23:26)
* (2) "Fedora 26 Supplementary Wallpapers: Vote now!" - gnokii++
(jwf, 17:23:31)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-26-supplementary-wallpaper...
(jwf, 17:23:36)
* Total Views (March 28 - April 4): 1254 (jwf, 17:23:41)
* LINK:
https://wordpress.com/stats/post/3618/communityblog.fedoraproject.org
(jwf, 17:23:45)
* (3) "Fedora at SCaLE 15x (2017) Event Report – Pasadena, California"
- lajuggler++ (jwf, 17:23:51)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/scale-15x-event-report/
(jwf, 17:23:56)
* Total Views (March 31 - April 4): 113 (jwf, 17:24:03)
* LINK:
https://wordpress.com/stats/post/3513/communityblog.fedoraproject.org
(jwf, 17:24:08)
* (4) "Anaconda BlivetGUI Test Day: 2017-04-06" - sumantrom++ (jwf,
17:24:15)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/anaconda-blivetgui-test-day/
(jwf, 17:24:20)
* Total Views (April 4): 15 (jwf, 17:24:25)
* LINK:
https://wordpress.com/stats/post/3651/communityblog.fedoraproject.org
(jwf, 17:24:32)
* === Coming Up in CommBlog === (jwf, 17:24:42)
* (1) "Fedora at Technologix 2017" - sumantrom (jwf, 17:24:47)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/?p=3647&preview=1&_ppp=4d64ffcdd1
(jwf, 17:24:51)
* Open Floor (jwf, 17:24:59)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/105 (skamath,
17:26:22)
* ACTION: commops Review and leave feedback on ticket for CommOps
Google Summer of Code slot
https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/105 (jwf, 17:26:37)
* ACTION: jwf Investigate why like / share buttons have gone MIA in
Magazine / CommBlog (jwf, 17:27:11)
* AGREED: Now that the places with daylight savings times have all had
their changes across the world, we will just maintain the existing
time. Thanks DST! (jwf, 17:34:06)
Meeting ended at 17:35:22 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* commops New members, make sure you introduce yourself on the CommOps
mailing list [ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps/Join ]
* jwf Start thread on CommOps mailing list (CC: bexelbie) on the best
way to store and host a "directory" or database of Fedora contributors
actively involved with EDU efforts
* jwf Update ticket #21 with proposed guidelines based on agreed
objectives/goals for pre- and post-event reports
* jwf Add comment to ticket #70 explaining our discussion and focus of
student pack, give examples of questions, post to mailing list asking
for comments
* commops Review and leave feedback on ticket for CommOps Google Summer
of Code slot https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/105
* jwf Investigate why like / share buttons have gone MIA in Magazine /
CommBlog
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* commops
* commops New members, make sure you introduce yourself on the CommOps
mailing list [ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps/Join ]
* commops Review and leave feedback on ticket for CommOps Google
Summer of Code slot https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/105
* jwf
* jwf Start thread on CommOps mailing list (CC: bexelbie) on the best
way to store and host a "directory" or database of Fedora
contributors actively involved with EDU efforts
* jwf Update ticket #21 with proposed guidelines based on agreed
objectives/goals for pre- and post-event reports
* jwf Add comment to ticket #70 explaining our discussion and focus of
student pack, give examples of questions, post to mailing list
asking for comments
* jwf Investigate why like / share buttons have gone MIA in Magazine /
CommBlog
* **UNASSIGNED**
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Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
4 years
