[diversity] Re: Fedora Diversity Group

[Amita]

Hi Charcol,

I am very happy that someone like you wants to help.

It sounds like you have a great background.
Your perspective as a shy person is something that is very
valuable for the types of things we're working on here in the Diversity
Team. As some background, this is one of the newest teams in Fedora and
we're also one of the smallest (but slowly growing!), so hopefully you
can understand that we're still working on maturing and expanding our
outreach. If you can join our mailing list - [e-mail],
it will help you understand more what tasks we are working on and how, and
if there's ever something you want to weigh in, you are more than welcome to!!

To understand some of the tasks that we're working on, you can check out
our Pagure repository. Pagure is a git forge where a lot of
Fedora-related projects host their code. We use the tickets / issues
feature as a task tracker for our team, to create new tasks and to track
our progress on them over time. You can view them here:

https://pagure.io/fedora-diversity/issues

You can scroll through some of the things we're currently discussing
there to better understand the type of work we do. Additionally, I'm not
sure if you read our wiki pages, but if you haven't yet, this will also
be great background to better understand our team!

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Diversity

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Diversity/Join

Looking forward to having you in Diversity team ! If
you have any questions, please don't be afraid to ask!!

Thanks again for showing your interest.

Regards,
Amita

On 04/12/2017 11:27 AM, Charelle Collett wrote:
> Hi Amita,
>
> William mentioned that you're working on a Fedora Diversity 
> initiative, and I'm very interested in helping out / getting involved.
>
> I remember not that long ago being way too shy to contribute anything 
> to OSS, even though I wanted to. That's why I really would love to 
> make it as easy as possible for people to get involved, especially 
> people from minority groups and those who are under-confident.
>
> I'd love to discuss ways in which I could help.  I've just joined the 
> #fedora-diversity irc channel as @charcol, so feel free to message me 
> there, or via emai :)
>
> Thank you,
> Charelle.
>
> On 12 April 2017 at 15:29, William Brown <[e-mail] 
> > wrote:
> Hi Amita,
>
> I'd like to introduce you to Charelle Collett: She's one of our
> Technical Writers here in Brisbane. Recently she's been helping me
> redesign the 389 Directory Server contributing page [0] to make it
> more
> accessible and open to new contributors. I'm sure she would like
> to know
> more about the program you run, and ways she might be able to get
> involved.
>
> Thank you!
>
> [0] http://www.port389.org/docs/389ds/contributing.html
> <http://www.port389.org/docs/389ds/contributing.html>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> William Brown
> Software Engineer
> Red Hat, Australia/Brisbane
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Charelle Collett
> Technical Writer
>
> Red Hat Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
> *email: *[e-mail] 
> *irc: *charcol

[Justin W. Flory]

On 04/12/2017 08:23 AM, Amita wrote:
> Hi Charcol,
>
> I am very happy that someone like you wants to help.
>
> It sounds like you have a great background.
> Your perspective as a shy person is something that is very
> valuable for the types of things we're working on here in the Diversity
> Team. As some background, this is one of the newest teams in Fedora and
> we're also one of the smallest (but slowly growing!), so hopefully you
> can understand that we're still working on maturing and expanding our
> outreach. If you can join our mailing list - [e-mail], 
> it will help you understand more what tasks we are working on and how, and 
> if there's ever something you want to weigh in, you are more than welcome to!!
>
> To understand some of the tasks that we're working on, you can check out
> our Pagure repository. Pagure is a git forge where a lot of
> Fedora-related projects host their code. We use the tickets / issues
> feature as a task tracker for our team, to create new tasks and to track
> our progress on them over time. You can view them here:
> https://pagure.io/fedora-diversity/issues
>
> You can scroll through some of the things we're currently discussing
> there to better understand the type of work we do. Additionally, I'm not
> sure if you read our wiki pages, but if you haven't yet, this will also
> be great background to better understand our team!
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Diversity
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Diversity/Join
>
> Looking forward to having you in Diversity team ! If
> you have any questions, please don't be afraid to ask!!
>
> Thanks again for showing your interest.
>
> Regards,
> Amita

Hi Charelle, welcome! Happy to have you here. :) Amita's info above
should be helpful for you to get started, but if you have any questions,
please don't be afraid to ask here on the list.

Hoping to see you around here!