Hi everyone,

my name is Aurelie and I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Italian but I've been living in London for 5 years. I'm a Linux SysAdmin. I've been using Linux since I was 17 (11 years professionally). I'm 38. I've used several different distribution over the years, as all of us I guess. But I'm kind of settle on Fedora now (it literally flies on my Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, I love it... :-) ) and I'm about to

start in a new Job in a month time. This has given me time to focus on what I really like. And that's why I'm here writing this email to you.

I'd like to contribute and I think I might help with packages and looking after the Fedora Infrastructure. That's also why I'm sending this two both the mailing lists.

I'm reading and experimenting with the Fedora packaging system (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/index.html) but I'm not sure where to start really. I'm keeping an eye on the devel mailing list for package reviews as well, just to learn what needs to be checked. I have no previous experience in packaging at this level (I've built simple custom packages in the companies I've worked for, but not at this level of expertise and complexity).

From a SysAdmin perspective I have 11 years of experience. In the last 5 years I've been working on RedHat 5/6/7. I have a really good experience with RH Clusters too (cman, rgmanager, corosync, pacemaker, etc...). Satellite 5/6, Katello, Spacewalk, IPA, Free IPA, LDAP, GPFS/GFS2 and in general shared filesystems. I've been using Chef at a good level in the last year and a half (VMware VM's deployment and management, RH7 Clusters deployment). In the last month I've also started learning Python and I love it. I hope to use it here and at work as too really soon.

Here's my LinkedIn account if you are curious. My nickname on Fedoraproject is "Aurelie". Public SSH key and PGP Key are in my FAS account.

So ya, I'm keen to give my contribute and any suggestion/advice about where to start and how would be much appreciated. I think I should be able to dedicate 5/7 hours a week to this.