Introducing myself
by Harshit Modi
Hi CommOps Team,
I am Harshit Modi. I am interested in getting involved in the Fedora
community by contributing to the Fedora CommOps. As Fedora CommOps deals
with all other fedora projects, it will provide me good opportunity to work
closely with all the community.
I am current graduate student at UT Arlington with computer science major.
I have 2 years of experience in web development. I have proper knowledge in
web stack and had used many open source technologies. As I move forward in
my career, I want to dig into more in open source projects. And for that I
want to join such project and learn from the highly motivated community.
Fedora is well known in open source world and has diverse fields to work
with. And CommOps has many active contributors and joining them will help
me jump on board and become the part of fedora community. So I am confident
that this opportunity will benefit us both.
Please let me know if you need any additional information. Thanks!
Regards,
Harshit Modi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshit-modi/
5 years, 6 months
Cannot find more info about Fedora participating in GCI
by Justin W. Flory
Hi all,
Recently, I learned Fedora is participating in Google Code-In after I
incorrectly told a student in #fedora-summer-coding I did not think
Fedora was participating this year.
Is there more information about Fedora's participation in GCI or where
to direct new students who want to contribute? I've participated with
GCI in other organizations before, but I have not seen discussion or
planning in any public archives.
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
5 years, 6 months
Re: Considering a logo refresh
by Justin W. Flory
On 10/4/18 5:52 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> * who is going to do the work?
> * do we have budget to do this? Yes, I think it would be fun to get
> the community involved for ideas but I think also budget for a design
> agency to take some of those ideas to a logo suitable for the next 15
> years would be awesome! See the Red Hat effort about the redesign for
> shadow man for an example here (no further comment on that!)
> * Without an effective marketing team how do we deal with that?
> * Without an effective web team how do we deal with that?
>
This could be a good opportunity to reevaluate the relationship of
different mindshare teams we already have in Fedora and how we can
better support them in their work. Because we do have a design team, a
marketing team, and a web team doing great work – so I am curious where
the perception of effectiveness arises. :)
I want to clarify my previous comment. I imagine everyone agrees it
should be open and transparent, but we may define those differently. It
should include engagement and active participation of mindshare teams in
a process to update the logo. If the logo is refreshed without active
involvement of these teams, whatever the final result is won't feel
representative of our community—to me.
If working with mindshare teams in this process feels tedious or that it
would draw this process out over a long stretch of time, it's worth
considering why that is and what we can do to make it not feel this way.
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
5 years, 6 months
Easyfix + WhatCanIDoForFedora
by Brian Exelbierd
I started writing this a while ago and never got it fully formed. Rather than let it keep rotting in my drafts folder I wanted to share it and see if it made sense to anyone else.
Warning - rough edges ahead!
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Conversations with several people have resulted in distilling the following idea:
= EasyFix
== Changing metadata
Modify the table that drives fedoraproject.org/easyfix that is located at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Easyfix
The table would now include two additional columns (optional)
Col 1 = existing reference to the issue tracker. We should consider adding gitlab.com support
Col 2 = existing point of contact
Col 3 = category of task (documentation, infrastructure, programming-Haskell, programming-Ruby, etc.)
Col 4 = SIG/WG/etc. this project is related too (Design, Council, KDE, etc.)
== Changing fedoraproject.org/easyfix
Today we show only two categories: Issues from Pagure/Github and Bugzillas
I believe those categories are not the right categories for consumers of the page. Using the new category (col 3) above, we would break things out by the kind of contribution. This would serve to let people browse related tasks more easily and to reduce the overwhelming nature of the current lists.
For BZs we are either going to have to guess based on BZ metadata or leave them lumped together.
= WCIDFF
WCDIFF should be extended to show the categories and groups appropriate for the various endpoints. This way the person who navigates WCDIFF has the option of reading a specific task they could work on right now, if they so desire.
= Marketing/Promotion
The categories give us the opportunity to promote our easyfixes as a great way to join or contribute in a targeted manner. This could come in the form of articles, tweets, or live conference appearances.
What do people think?
regards,
bex
5 years, 6 months