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by jhonatan grajales 06 May '24

06 May '24

Hello everyone. My name is Jhonatan Grajales but they usually call me Alex by my middle name. It is the first time that I participate in an open source project, however I am fully willing to collaborate for the growth of the project and the community. My native language is Spanish and I am learning English. I currently work in a SAP help desk, I have been on my personal computer with Fedora for approximately a year and I am delighted with the stability I have had, I normally use it to develop small programs in Python for practice purposes and I find myself making a LFS101 Linux certification. As for the mailing lists, it is the first time I have used it, in my environment we have always used Microsoft Teams to communicate and now I am trying Element. Due to my job and the fact that I have shifts at different times, I have an estimated time of 10 hours a week. I am enthusiastic about being able to contribute to the community.

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Hello, I'm Adaline!
by Adaline Simonian 02 May '24

02 May '24

Hello everyone Here's a slightly modified version of my intro I sent to the translation team mailing list. It's a pleasure to meet you all. My name is Adaline and my pronouns are they/she in English, and hen/ho in Norwegian (hen/hun if you're writing in Bokmål). My native languages are US English, Russian, and Western Armenian, though I have largely forgotten Armenian as a result of not using it and my Russian is a tad rusty. I'm at a CEFR B2 level in Norwegian (according to my teachers, though I also have planned to take the national language test when I visit the country). I'm currently working on getting to a C-level. Nynorsk is the language I use day in and day out on my computer whenever an application supports it. I decided to take a stab at contributing to translations for Fedora since I primarily use Nynorsk on my machine, and that includes the Fedora installations I run. I'd like to increase the translation surface of the Nynorsk localization. While I have not been a contributor to Fedora before, I have been active in the OSS community broadly for a long time, off and on. I am a member of the Stylelint maintainer team, have several packages in the Node.js ecosystem that I maintain, and most recently have been behind Ordbok API ( ordbokapi.org), a public, free, and open source GraphQL API for data from the Norwegian dictionaries. I am also the developer and maintainer of the Discord bot powering language-related functions for the Norwegian Language Learning community (https://github.com/NLLCommunity). My main OS on my desktop machine is Windows but I use Fedora in WSL, my virtual machines, and on my work laptop. Fedora runs my home k8s cluster as well. I've used some private mailing lists a few times, but only a very long time ago. I'm familiar with Git and use it for my own projects as well as for work. I've worked with a variety of languages, frameworks, and runtimes across my time in my career. I currently use Node.js and TypeScript as my daily driver for most work both at work and for my personal projects, but I have used C#, Rust, C, Java, and a number of other languages in the past. Most of my personal communication with people is on Telegram, Discord for the Norwegian community I am a moderator in, though I have Signal and Matrix as well. For the most part aside from my involvement in the Norwegian community and my contributions to the OSS sphere, I tend to live pretty offline — so while I do have a Twitter, Bluesky, and a Mastodon account, I very rarely use them. I live a fairly busy life but was planning on kicking an infrequent hour or two here and there towards contributing some translations. My Fedora Account username is adaline, and I have signed the CLA. Mvh Adaline Simonian hen/ho

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Introduction: rshadr
by Adrien Ricciardi 01 May '24

01 May '24

Hello! I'm Adrien from Luxembourg, looking to contribute to Fedora Linux. My first experience with open source was Blender in 2018, then I installed Ubuntu in 2021. Among the distros I've used since then, I stuck with Fedora because it hits a nice balance between ease of use and user control. My main interest is in making Linux more accessible to "non-tech" people. I have been programming for 2 years (mainly in C), know shell scripting, git and the classic debugger tools. My 4 fluent languages are French, Luxembourgish, German and English. Time-wise, I expect to be spending 5-6 hours a week on Fedora contributions; as I'm still in school, this may vary depending on exams. I look towards fixing upstream bugs in programs (like GNOME terminal) at some point, but will try my hand at translations in French and Luxembourgish when I get started. Looking towards working with all you cool people!

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Demand Q2/2024
by Axt＠fedoraproject.org 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

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Re: Introduction / Hello fellow fedorians!! :) - Time
by rad 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Forgot to answer the time bit! I honestly am not sure if I'll be able to consistently give contributions due to me being very close to starting university, but for the sake of answering this, I guess at worst I can spend 4-6 hours contributing every week... I'm not sure if that's a good answer though :l. On Thursday, 25 April 2024 at 19:38, rad <radicalite(a)proton.me> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > My name is Ali, my online username is radbirb, and I go by Rad more often than not online, moving aside names, I have been involved in the Linux and FOSS worlds as a user since 2017! Though I've been off and on with Linux since 2017 up until 2021, where I've gone full focus back on the Linux desktop as my daily driver. I've been active in various Discord and Reddit communities surrounding the Linux desktop, discussing things, hanging out with friends, and providing help / support to people who need it in support channels. I've also written a few (now outdated) guides and, very recently, reworked the KDE wiki page on the Fedora Wiki (my first Fedora contribution :O). I am currently looking at contributing mostly in writing documentation and other related tasks like article writing (possibly writing stuff for the Fedora Magazine? :P), possibly promo stuff for the project? who knows! Though I am currently learning Python and looking forward to doing Compsci (or IT) in university, maybe I'll expand beyond writing-related tasks in regards to contribution sooner or later. > > Fedora Linux is my main choice of OS, with my preferred desktop being KDE Plasma (KDE spin FTW!!), though OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch Linux are other distros I like using, and despite my main choice of desktop being Plasma, I'd say I'm also well versed in navigating and using GNOME (I am currently typing this from a Tumbleweed system running GNOME 46) so I hold both desktops in high regard despite my preference. > > I always knew about Fedora ever since I started my Linux journey back in 2017, but I didn't check it out until 2021, mostly pushed by the fact that my first Linux install in ages (KDE Neon) was broken by a mishandled-by-Neon update, and the Akademy talk held by Neal Gompa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Laat0XoWZE) also convinced me on using Fedora. I've spent the majority of my time on Fedora using the KDE spin, and I semi regularly hang out in the KDE SIG matrix channel. I also regularly recommend Fedora and help with Fedora within the communities I active in. > > My skills that could help the project in non-tech related areas revolve around my language proficiency and my ability to make incredibly rough mockups for demonstration purposes due to my very-not-good art skills :D. English is indeed my second language (Arabic being my native language as I am Lebanese), but I find myself to be very good at it, I often write essays, poems and slowly, stories. I think that my english is (un/fortunately?) my best language, so I'd like to make use of that to help where I can. > In regards to tech related skills, I am familiar with the command line, the greater desktop Linux ecosystem, I have (atm) basic Python skills and I've done testing for both KDE Plasma 6 and Fedora 40 during their test days. > > I am very new to mailing lists, as this is basically my first one (unless you count bugzilla threads as such ,:P), so a lot of learning to be done there. Discord is my most used real time chat platform, but I have a Matrix account that I frequent and will probably become more active on as time goes on. > > Discord: @radbirb > matrix: radbirb:fedora.im > > I look forward to being part of this community! :), > Ali

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Introduction / Hello fellow fedorians!! :)
by rad 25 Apr '24

25 Apr '24

Hello everyone! My name is Ali, my online username is radbirb, and I go by Rad more often than not online, moving aside names, I have been involved in the Linux and FOSS worlds as a user since 2017! Though I've been off and on with Linux since 2017 up until 2021, where I've gone full focus back on the Linux desktop as my daily driver. I've been active in various Discord and Reddit communities surrounding the Linux desktop, discussing things, hanging out with friends, and providing help / support to people who need it in support channels. I've also written a few (now outdated) guides and, very recently, reworked the KDE wiki page on the Fedora Wiki (my first Fedora contribution :O). I am currently looking at contributing mostly in writing documentation and other related tasks like article writing (possibly writing stuff for the Fedora Magazine? :P), possibly promo stuff for the project? who knows! Though I am currently learning Python and looking forward to doing Compsci (or IT) in university, maybe I'll expand beyond writing-related tasks in regards to contribution sooner or later. Fedora Linux is my main choice of OS, with my preferred desktop being KDE Plasma (KDE spin FTW!!), though OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch Linux are other distros I like using, and despite my main choice of desktop being Plasma, I'd say I'm also well versed in navigating and using GNOME (I am currently typing this from a Tumbleweed system running GNOME 46) so I hold both desktops in high regard despite my preference. I always knew about Fedora ever since I started my Linux journey back in 2017, but I didn't check it out until 2021, mostly pushed by the fact that my first Linux install in ages (KDE Neon) was broken by a mishandled-by-Neon update, and the Akademy talk held by Neal Gompa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Laat0XoWZE) also convinced me on using Fedora. I've spent the majority of my time on Fedora using the KDE spin, and I semi regularly hang out in the KDE SIG matrix channel. I also regularly recommend Fedora and help with Fedora within the communities I active in. My skills that could help the project in non-tech related areas revolve around my language proficiency and my ability to make incredibly rough mockups for demonstration purposes due to my very-not-good art skills :D. English is indeed my second language (Arabic being my native language as I am Lebanese), but I find myself to be very good at it, I often write essays, poems and slowly, stories. I think that my english is (un/fortunately?) my best language, so I'd like to make use of that to help where I can. In regards to tech related skills, I am familiar with the command line, the greater desktop Linux ecosystem, I have (atm) basic Python skills and I've done testing for both KDE Plasma 6 and Fedora 40 during their test days. I am very new to mailing lists, as this is basically my first one (unless you count bugzilla threads as such ,:P), so a lot of learning to be done there. Discord is my most used real time chat platform, but I have a Matrix account that I frequent and will probably become more active on as time goes on. Discord: @radbirb matrix: radbirb:fedora.im I look forward to being part of this community! :), Ali

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Hello Fedora World!
by Paul Maconi, Jr. 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

Hello everyone! I'm Paul. Aggraxis is my username. Some of you may know me from other places. If so, hello again! I want to say up front that despite having been around the block a few times, this is my very first time actually posting to a mailing list. I hope that this message winds up being readable and finds you in good spirits. You can usually find me on Discord (Again, as Aggraxis), which is probably my preferred chat platform these days just because of how many other things seem to be tied in there. We use MS Teams at work. (Eww, I know...) My first experience with Matrix was when I registered my Fedora account and sought out the Fedora-join SIG to start the onboarding workflow. It reminds me of IRC from back in the 90s, but with some of its own quirks and oddities. I think it's fun that we have so many different options because people of varying backgrounds with different ideas decided to sit down and make something. I’m an 80’s kid who was a huge computer nerd growing up only to become a professional computer nerd as an adult. I love tinkering and experimenting. I grew up in a Commodore household (C64/128, several Amigas), learned Windows out of an academic and professional necessity, and eventually found myself tinkering with Debian and a few other distributions in my late teens. Watching my first kernel compile was an eye-opening experience. I spent about 7 years in the Networking world doing all things Cisco, which I thoroughly enjoyed until I was responding to alerts at 2 AM while trying to bottle feed my firstborn. During my time there I developed an intimate working knowledge of all things routing and switching (which has changed and evolved in some ways over the years, other ways not so much). I spent about the next 7 years as a civil servant in the super boring, but super lucrative (compared to my previous reimbursement at the time) world of government acquisitions. The key takeaway from that time was that it gave me the opportunity to refine my ability to translate technical jargon into common language that targets managers and decision makers. Since then I have been working for a series of defense contractors (my current employer is amazing) serving as an system administrator on the core infrastructure team for a series of software test systems. I work with VMware products, possibly Proxmox soon, Windows (client and server), RHEL (7, 8, and 9), Ubuntu, NetApp storage arrays, and a bunch of other fun stuff like Ansible (I could write YAML playbooks all day long and be happy) as well as lots and lots of STIG work. (Yuck, but it pays the bills!) I know enough Python to be dangerous in the workplace. I became curious after my initial exposure to Ansible. I took C,C++, and Java back in my college days, but I doubt I could reliably create something useful using that knowledge these days. We use an internal gitlab server in the office, so I'm familiar enough with git to do things like create branches and submit merge requests, but some of the other things you can do just haven't popped up in my day-to-day experiences yet. I’ve been doing that long enough that now I’m ‘the boss’ for the team of contractors supporting the ongoing work there. I spent a lot of time hiring and mentoring new talent coming in, trying to develop the next batch of mad computer scientists to take things to the next level. I should note that I am volunteering entirely in my personal capacity, and my involvement does not constitute any kind of endorsement by my employer or our customer(s). Even so, I am very glad to be here! I use Fedora on my laptop at home. Yeah, we also still have Windows in the house. It pays to stay proficient with the systems you work with. I also have a small homelab setup where I run a few VMs. (I just finished moving everything at home from VMware to Proxmox as a learning/fun exercise.) I also do a bit of gaming in my spare time, but I’m at that point where I’m looking to put some of that time and energy back into something Good. Hopefully you’ll see me out and about somewhere in the Fedora community!

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Joining the Fedoraproject
by Eduard Sorkin 14 Mar '24

14 Mar '24

Hi everyone, My name is Eduard I'm a software developer from Europe. I use Fedora as my main OS and being using Unix and Unix-like operating systems for now over 10 years. I have never contributed to an open source project. I worked exclusively on proprietary projects throughout my career and I never saw any of my private projects to be worth uploading anywhere. Through out my university years and my career and my own projects I familiarized with many software developing tools and languages. Where I am most experienced with C, Python and javascript (mostly node.js). I have also experience with Git, Docker, Podman, Shell, Java, Rust, HTML, CSS, CMake and some other things I can't recall now. I spent a lot of time developing proprietary software and feel it's time for me to start to contribute to open source. Since I use Fedora I thought I could try to be come a part of the project. I don't know how much I can designate to it and I don't know where to start best. But I hope I will find it out soon. I just hope I can contribute to the code base at some point. If some one wants my help or knows where I can start coding, don't feel shy to contact me. Hope to be soon an active member of the community. Best Eduard

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