Introduction for Thorsten from Germany (thopan)

[Thorsten Panknin]

Hi,

I'm Thorsten from Northern Germany, male, 48 years old, and I'm looking 
into joining Fedora in order to contribute to the OS I am using.

My interest in the Fedora community and projects was sparked by the 
current Creative Freedom Summit, its sessions and the interactions. 
Especially with Martin Owens of the Inkscape project who's coded the 
multi-page feature for Inkscape 1.2. Directly communicating with a 
person behind the scenes is an awesome thing.

My hobbies include
Science Fiction in books, movies and gamesTabletop roleplaying gamesI'm 
also one of the two editors of a hobby online magazine called 
Lovecrafter Online. It's a project of the German Lovecraftian Society 
of which I've been a member of for several years. I'm more interested 
in the cosmic horror side of things, not so much in the author who 
started the sub-genre

I've been using Fedora since version 36, coming from Manjaro Linux. I 
really like that:
Fedora as a distribution feels so integrated and smooth,yet is on the 
forefront of technology. I like regular and lots of updates to software 
which Fedora provides without being a rolling release distribution.

I have a little experience with FOSS communities or ecosystems I'd say:
Many, many years ago I translated a few blog posts to German for the 
XMPP communityAnd worked on a graphical redesign of  a Linux 
distribution's website whose name I actually have forgotten already.

That is what I am looking for:
Being involved in "my" OS, hopefully making a (small) differenceWorking 
in a team with regular communication and interaction, preferably not 
text-onlyI imagine my place in a FOSS community as being interactive 
and socialPossibly being involved in translating texts to German, not 
sure which sorts of text (Fedora magazine articles perhaps, rather 
something which can be done incrementally like pages or articles of 
something–no humongous material which needs ages to work through in 
one go, please)Possibly getting back into design, I like Inkscape and 
am currently getting into Penpot. I'd like to get into typography and 
informational knowledge transfer (e.g. design which focuses on 
legibility, clearness, helping people learn things via text and images)

As far as software development related things go:
I had some exposure to version control systems, but am not really 
comfortable using those for some unknown reason, this might change with 
some training

Experience in communication platforms:
I have used mailing lists before and already registered to the Join 
SIG's oneAs far as messaging goes, I'm a Signal user and, via the 
Creative Freedom Summit, have started using Matrix which I am getting 
comfortable with

As far as invested hours per week go, I'm not sure. Maybe one to two 
for starters.

Cheers,

Thorsten

[Thorsten Panknin]

Sorry, that the unordered lists I entered did not make it through. I 
wasn't aware that formatting would be filtered out. The following is 
hopefully more legible:

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I'm Thorsten from Northern Germany, male, 48 years old, and I'm looking 
into joining Fedora in order to contribute to the OS I am using.

My interest in the Fedora community and projects was sparked by the 
current Creative Freedom Summit, its sessions and the interactions. 
Especially with Martin Owens of the Inkscape project who's coded the
multi-page feature for Inkscape 1.2. Directly communicating with a 
person behind the scenes is an awesome thing.

My hobbies include science fiction in books and movies plus tabletop 
roleplaying games.

I'm also one of the two editors of a hobby online magazine called 
Lovecrafter Online. It's a project of the German Lovecraftian Society 
of which I've been a member of for several years. I'm more interested 
in the cosmic horror side of things, not so much in the author who 
started the sub-genre.

I've been using Fedora since version 36, coming from Manjaro Linux. I 
really like that: Fedora as a distribution feels so integrated and 
smooth,yet is on the forefront of technology. I like regular and lots 
of updates to software which Fedora provides without being a rolling 
release distribution.

I have a little experience with FOSS communities or ecosystems I'd say: 
Many, many years ago I translated a few blog posts to German for the 
XMPP communityAnd worked on a graphical redesign of  a Linux
distribution's website whose name I actually have forgotten already.

That is what I am looking for: Being involved in "my" OS, hopefully 
making a (small) difference, working in a team with regular 
communication and interaction, preferably not text-only. I imagine my 
place in a FOSS community as being interactive and social. Possibly 
being involved in translating texts to German, not sure which sorts of 
text (Fedora magazine articles perhaps, rather something which can be 
done incrementally like pages or articles of something–no humongous 
material which needs ages to work through in one go, please). Possibly 
getting back into design, I like Inkscape and am currently getting into 
Penpot. I'd like to get into typography and informational knowledge 
transfer (e.g. design which focuses on legibility, clearness, helping 
people learn things via text and images)

As far as software development related things go: I had some exposure 
to version control systems, but am not really comfortable using those 
for some unknown reason, this might change with
some training

Experience in communication platforms: I have used mailing lists before 
and already registered to the Join SIG's one. As far as messaging goes, 
I'm a Signal user and, via the Creative Freedom Summit, have started 
using Matrix which I am getting comfortable with

As far as invested hours per week go, I'm not sure. Maybe one to two 
for starters.

Cheers,

Thorsten

Am Do, 19. Jan 2023 um 14:40:26 +0100 schrieb Thorsten Panknin 
:
> Hi,
>
> I'm Thorsten from Northern Germany, male, 48 years old, and I'm 
> looking
> into joining Fedora in order to contribute to the OS I am using.
>
> My interest in the Fedora community and projects was sparked by the
> current Creative Freedom Summit, its sessions and the interactions.
> Especially with Martin Owens of the Inkscape project who's coded the
> multi-page feature for Inkscape 1.2. Directly communicating with a
> person behind the scenes is an awesome thing.
>
> My hobbies include
> Science Fiction in books, movies and gamesTabletop roleplaying 
> gamesI'm
> also one of the two editors of a hobby online magazine called
> Lovecrafter Online. It's a project of the German Lovecraftian Society
> of which I've been a member of for several years. I'm more interested
> in the cosmic horror side of things, not so much in the author who
> started the sub-genre
>
> I've been using Fedora since version 36, coming from Manjaro Linux. I
> really like that:
> Fedora as a distribution feels so integrated and smooth,yet is on the
> forefront of technology. I like regular and lots of updates to 
> software
> which Fedora provides without being a rolling release distribution.
>
> I have a little experience with FOSS communities or ecosystems I'd 
> say:
> Many, many years ago I translated a few blog posts to German for the
> XMPP communityAnd worked on a graphical redesign of  a Linux
> distribution's website whose name I actually have forgotten already.
>
> That is what I am looking for:
> Being involved in "my" OS, hopefully making a (small) 
> differenceWorking
> in a team with regular communication and interaction, preferably not
> text-onlyI imagine my place in a FOSS community as being interactive
> and socialPossibly being involved in translating texts to German, not
> sure which sorts of text (Fedora magazine articles perhaps, rather
> something which can be done incrementally like pages or articles of
> something–no humongous material which needs ages to work through in
> one go, please)Possibly getting back into design, I like Inkscape and
> am currently getting into Penpot. I'd like to get into typography and
> informational knowledge transfer (e.g. design which focuses on
> legibility, clearness, helping people learn things via text and 
> images)
>
> As far as software development related things go:
> I had some exposure to version control systems, but am not really
> comfortable using those for some unknown reason, this might change 
> with
> some training
>
> Experience in communication platforms:
> I have used mailing lists before and already registered to the Join
> SIG's oneAs far as messaging goes, I'm a Signal user and, via the
> Creative Freedom Summit, have started using Matrix which I am getting
> comfortable with
>
> As far as invested hours per week go, I'm not sure. Maybe one to two
> for starters.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thorsten
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[Ankur Sinha]

Hi Thorsten,

Welcome to the community (again :)). If there's anything at all we can
help with, please do let us know on any community channel.