[commops] Intro :)

[James Thornber]

Hello all,

I'd like to join your team, as it seems really interesting! :)

Not sure what to say, so I'm going to use those handy notes on the website:


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   Why are you interested in contributing to Fedora?

   I like the fact that Fedora ships cutting-edge but very stable products,
   and it seems like a really nice community.  I've only recently been
   seriously interested in linux, and I've built my own PC and only running
   Fedora28 workstation on it.  I've been using HP-UX, and more recently RHEL
   and CentOS at work, so my home pc is my play-pit to be able to keep ahead
   of new linux packages, and try things out that I don't have time to do at
   work really!
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   Why are you interested in contributing to CommOps?

   To me it's about people; it's the people that make a community and
   that's a huge part in what I think helps make Fedora successful.  I'd like
   to help to be able to shine a light on interesting packages/technology
   that's in the dev-pipeline for upcoming releases, or showing people how
   others use Fedora.  I think also because I can't code to save my life then
   I see CommOps as being a better fit for me, and my skills i.e. i'm much
   more of a people person :)
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   If you’re involved with other things in Fedora, what are/were you
   working on?

   Nothing, so far! :)
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   Do you have any experience in open source or online communities? If so,
   what?

   I'm an admin for a couple of genealogical DNA groups, does that count?
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   What parts of CommOps were interesting to you?

   Helping to support different teams, communicating relevant info to a
   wider audience, meeting interesting people and helping them to share a
   story or information, and aligning this to technology that supports the
   community as a whole.  I'm quite happy planning, and organising things too
   :)
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   Do you have any questions for us? How can we help *you* get started?

   I can see that you have some tasks in pageur without an assignee, if you
   would like me to get involved in one of those tasks then I'm more than
   happy to - just email me;  if you feel I'd be better suited in a different
   team then please feel free to signpost me :)

   Thanks :)