Intro

[Ryan Mason]

Hi all, My name is Ryan and I'm new to the mailing list, although some of you may have
seen me loitering around reddit or IRC. 

I've never contributed to something like this before, but I want to contribute as I
have a strong passion for linux and open source, and want to one day work at Red Hat - I
thought what better place to start than within the Fedora community. 
I am a so-so coder and designer, but thought both CommOps and Docs might be somewhere
where I can add some value to the project. 

Life is pretty hectic at the moment with full-time work, part-time study and baby number
one on the way, but I hope to be able to contribute regularly! 

My 9-5 is that of a project estimator, however I am studying computer science and taking
certifications when I can. Hopefully I can leverage some of my skills I've picked up
in the 33 years I've been stomping around the planet to assist the project! 

Regards, 

Ryan

[Stephen Wadeley]

On 03/05/2016 05:00 PM, Ryan Mason wrote:
>  Hi all, My name is Ryan and I'm new to the mailing list, although
> some of you may have seen me loitering around reddit or IRC.
>
>  I've never contributed to something like this before, but I want to contribute as I
> have a strong passion for linux and open source, and want to one day work at Red Hat - I
> thought what better place to start than within the Fedora community.
>  I am a so-so coder and designer, but thought both CommOps and Docs might be somewhere
> where I can add some value to the project.
>
>  Life is pretty hectic at the moment with full-time work, part-time study and baby number
> one on the way, but I hope to be able to contribute regularly!
>
>  My 9-5 is that of a project estimator, however I am studying computer science and taking
> certifications when I can. Hopefully I can leverage some of my skills I've picked up
> in the 33 years I've been stomping around the planet to assist the project!
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Ryan
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>  
Welcome Ryan

-- 
Stephen Wadeley
Content Author | Red Hat, Inc.
Purkynova 99 | Brno, Czech Republic

[Ryan Mason]

Thanks Stephen!

I did a scrollback through #fedora-meeting and noticed that it was mentioned my e-mail
bounced. I hope that is rectified now, changed some settings on my end.

Some further info, you can find me on IRC as masetrax, and I'm located in mostly sunny
Perth, Australia which puts me at +8 UTC

I wrote a bit about how I got to wanting to contribute, which is located here:
https://masetraxblog.wordpress.com

Thanks again for the welcome!

[Petr Bokoc]

Hi Ryan!

On 03/15/2016 12:56 AM, Ryan Mason wrote:
>  Thanks Stephen!
>
>  I did a scrollback through #fedora-meeting and noticed that it was mentioned my e-mail
> bounced. I hope that is rectified now, changed some settings on my end. 
Ha! Yeah, sorry, looks like randomuser missed your mail and I didn't but 
got distracted and then forgot about it. Welcome aboard!

>  Some further info, you can find me on IRC as masetrax, and I'm
> located in mostly sunny Perth, Australia which puts me at +8 UTC 
That's going to make collaboration a bit complicated as almost all of us 
are in Europe or the Americas - but we'll manage. Go ahead and post any 
questions or thoughts you have to the list if you can't get a hold of 
anyone on IRC.

>  I wrote a bit about how I got to wanting to contribute, which is
> located here: https://masetraxblog.wordpress.com 
Cool! Do you have any specific interest that you'd like to write about? 
Some area like, I don't know, networking, software development, running 
Fedora on ARM, LDAP...?

In any case, as you probably got from reading the meeting log, we're 
(slooooowly) getting ready to start on Release Notes for Fedora 24. Beta 
comes out in early May[1] and by that time we'd like to cover Changes[2] 
that are implemented at that point. For the final release we'll polish 
the Beta notes and hopefully expand them with things that changed, but 
aren't covered in Changes. Writing this is a good place to start for new 
contributors, since it doesn't require much knowledge about our tooling, 
you only need to edit the Wiki and talk to people. And it's a set of 
fairly small, isolated tasks, not like writing a whole chapter in a book.

Either I or randomuser will send out instructions for writing relnotes 
to this list soon.

For the rest of our documentation - are you familiar with any of the 
tools we currently use? Docs are written mostly in DocBook[3], built 
using publican, and revision control (and publishing... yes, seriously 
:) is handled using git. There's a pretty big thread[4] going on the 
list about making the Docs Project more accessible to newcomers, which 
would mean changing our workflow and adopting new tools - if you have an 
hour to spare, read through and let us know what you think too.

Though, even if we do completely change our workflow, it's going to take 
time, so right now learning git and DocBook is still pretty much 
required in order to contribute to anything other than Release Notes. If 
you haven't worked with any of them, it's fine - let us know and we'll 
show you around.

Cheers,
Petr

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/Schedule
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/ChangeSet
[3] http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html
[4] 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...

[Ryan Mason]

>  Hi Ryan!
>  
>  On 03/15/2016 12:56 AM, Ryan Mason wrote:
>  
>  Ha! Yeah, sorry, looks like randomuser missed your mail and I didn't but 
>  got distracted and then forgot about it. Welcome aboard!
>   
Thank you very much!

>  That's going to make collaboration a bit complicated as almost
> all of us 
>  are in Europe or the Americas - but we'll manage. Go ahead and post any 
>  questions or thoughts you have to the list if you can't get a hold of 
>  anyone on IRC.
>   
The weekly meeting time isn't too bad for me at 10pm my time. And I'm always on
IRC so scrolling back through twice a day is not a big problem. We shall manage! :)

>  Cool! Do you have any specific interest that you'd like to write
> about? 
>  Some area like, I don't know, networking, software development, running 
>  Fedora on ARM, LDAP...?
>   
Not particularly. I am majoring in cyber security with my degree, so I might be able to
pass on knowledge once I learn more about that particular domain. At this stage I would
consider myself an intermediate Linux user but I am slowly learning!

>  In any case, as you probably got from reading the meeting log,
> we're 
>  (slooooowly) getting ready to start on Release Notes for Fedora 24. Beta 
>  comes out in early May[1] and by that time we'd like to cover Changes[2] 
>  that are implemented at that point. For the final release we'll polish 
>  the Beta notes and hopefully expand them with things that changed, but 
>  aren't covered in Changes. Writing this is a good place to start for new 
>  contributors, since it doesn't require much knowledge about our tooling, 
>  you only need to edit the Wiki and talk to people. And it's a set of 
>  fairly small, isolated tasks, not like writing a whole chapter in a book.
>  
>  Either I or randomuser will send out instructions for writing relnotes 
>  to this list soon.
>  
>  For the rest of our documentation - are you familiar with any of the 
>  tools we currently use? Docs are written mostly in DocBook[3], built 
>  using publican, and revision control (and publishing... yes, seriously 
>  :) is handled using git. There's a pretty big thread[4] going on the 
>  list about making the Docs Project more accessible to newcomers, which 
>  would mean changing our workflow and adopting new tools - if you have an 
>  hour to spare, read through and let us know what you think too.
>  
>  Though, even if we do completely change our workflow, it's going to take 
>  time, so right now learning git and DocBook is still pretty much 
>  required in order to contribute to anything other than Release Notes. If 
>  you haven't worked with any of them, it's fine - let us know and we'll 
>  show you around.
>  
>  Cheers,
>  Petr
>  
>  [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/Schedule
>  [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/ChangeSet
>  [3] http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html
>  [4] 
>  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]... 
I've got a little experience with git - but I'm no expert. DocBook is new to me,
but I've bookmarked the link and will get to reading up on it in the next week or so.
I'll spend some time reading in the next 11 or so days as I've taken a week off
work, and will give someone a shout if I have any specific questions :)

[Pete Travis]

On Mar 17, 2016 4:38 AM, "Ryan Mason" <masetrax1(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > Hi Ryan!
>  >
>  > On 03/15/2016 12:56 AM, Ryan Mason wrote:
>  >
>  > Ha! Yeah, sorry, looks like randomuser missed your mail and I didn't but
>  > got distracted and then forgot about it. Welcome aboard!
>  >
>
>  Thank you very much!
>
>  > That's going to make collaboration a bit complicated as almost all of us
>  > are in Europe or the Americas - but we'll manage. Go ahead and post any
>  > questions or thoughts you have to the list if you can't get a hold of
>  > anyone on IRC.
>  >
>
>  The weekly meeting time isn't too bad for me at 10pm my time. And I'm
always on IRC so scrolling back through twice a day is not a big problem.
We shall manage! :)
>  > Cool! Do you have any specific interest that you'd like to write about?
>  > Some area like, I don't know, networking, software development, running
>  > Fedora on ARM, LDAP...?
>  >
>
>  Not particularly. I am majoring in cyber security with my degree, so I 
might be
able to pass on knowledge once I learn more about that particular
domain. At this stage I would consider myself an intermediate Linux user
but I am slowly learning!
>  > In any case, as you probably got from reading the meeting log, we're
>  > (slooooowly) getting ready to start on Release Notes for Fedora 24. Beta
>  > comes out in early May[1] and by that time we'd like to cover Changes[2]
>  > that are implemented at that point. For the final release we'll polish
>  > the Beta notes and hopefully expand them with things that changed, but
>  > aren't covered in Changes. Writing this is a good place to start for new
>  > contributors, since it doesn't require much knowledge about our tooling,
>  > you only need to edit the Wiki and talk to people. And it's a set of
>  > fairly small, isolated tasks, not like writing a whole chapter in a 
book.
>  >
>  > Either I or randomuser will send out instructions for writing relnotes
>  > to this list soon.
>  >
>  > For the rest of our documentation - are you familiar with any of the
>  > tools we currently use? Docs are written mostly in DocBook[3], built
>  > using publican, and revision control (and publishing... yes, seriously
>  > :) is handled using git. There's a pretty big thread[4] going on the
>  > list about making the Docs Project more accessible to newcomers, which
>  > would mean changing our workflow and adopting new tools - if you have an
>  > hour to spare, read through and let us know what you think too.
>  >
>  > Though, even if we do completely change our workflow, it's going to take
>  > time, so right now learning git and DocBook is still pretty much
>  > required in order to contribute to anything other than Release Notes. If
>  > you haven't worked with any of them, it's fine - let us know and we'll
>  > show you around.
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  > Petr
>  >
>  > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/Schedule
>  > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/ChangeSet
>  > [3] http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html
>  > [4]
>  > 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...
>  I've got a little experience with git - but I'm no expert. DocBook is new
to me, but I've bookmarked the link and will get to reading up on it in the
next week or so. I'll spend some time reading in the next 11 or so days as
I've taken a week off work, and will give someone a shout if I have any
specific questions :)
>  --
>  
Welcome, Ryan!  async IRC is a common practice for us, I look forward to
seeing you around #fedora-docs or here.

--Pete