introducing myself

[Ingmar Lippert]

Dear Fedorians, dear SIG/Join group, dear all,

after having learned from alciregi about a "bug" (via 
https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Welcome-to-Fedora/issue/212#comment-772943), 
I am able to write to you here and share my brief introduction.

Professionally, I am a social scientist; in the Fedora space, I briefly 
already introduced myself at 
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/introduce-yourself/1875/179?u=ingli

I am interested in socio-technical complexities and environmental 
issues. Skills? Well, I guess you are interested in the IT-related 
skills. Mailman I can post to and administer, git I use every day for 
LaTeX projects, I compile software that I need but is not yet available 
on the repos. I have been reporting bugs via bugzilla for a few years.

At the moment I do not think I will be a programmer any time soon. 
Culture, diversity, bias, political economy, environmental dimensions 
(especially carbon) might be potentially of overlapping interest between 
the Fedora world and my non-Fedora-life.

I also have interested in security and encryption topics – but, well, 
again from a social science angle - for instance regarding privacy 
behaviour and culture, the way people imagine security, the practical 
issues in using encryption software.

Software-wise, my personal medium term objective is to learn to package 
https://github.com/ccbogel/QualCoder.

alciregi has opened a new ticket for me at 
https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Welcome-to-Fedora/issue/212 .

All best,
Ingmar


-- 
Associate Professor Dr. Ingmar Lippert
Technologies in Practice Research Group, IT University of Copenhagen

STS Group, Humanities of Nature, Museum and Society, Leibniz Institute 
for Evolution and Biodiversity Science/Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Chair of Technoscience Studies
Brandenburg University of Technology

https://www.ingli.de

Encryption GPG key ID 0xCC53D8A7BA575E6E
Twitter https://twitter.com/i_ngli

I have sent this email at a time that suits my work flow.
I do not expect answers outside of normal office hours.

[Ankur Sinha]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 09:59:36 +0100, Ingmar Lippert wrote:
>  Dear Fedorians, dear SIG/Join group, dear all, 
Hello Ingmar!

You've been around long enough so I don't feel like you're a newcomer,
but welcome anyway :)

>  
>  <snip>
>  
>  Software-wise, my personal medium term objective is to learn to package
>  https://github.com/ccbogel/QualCoder. 
That's great. Please do let us know if we can help with this. A few of
us are sponsors to the package maintainers group and will be able to help
with guiding you through the process/pipeline.

>  
>  alciregi has opened a new ticket for me at
>  https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Welcome-to-Fedora/issue/212 . 
Awesome!

It's great to have more folks from the research/science side of things.
We have the Science and Technology SIG here, so worth joining that too
I'd say:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SciTech_SIG

We also have specialised SIGs for some sciences. I'm aware of the
Astronomy, Neuroscience, Robotics SIGs. So if you'd like, you could even
look into starting a SIG for the Social sciences. I'm sure there'll be
quite a bit of interest there too :)

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SIGs

-- 
Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha (He / Him / His) | https://ankursinha.in
Research Fellow at the Silver Lab, University College London | http://silverlab.org/
Free/Open source community volunteer at the NeuroFedora project |
https://neuro.fedoraproject.org
Time zone: Europe/London

[Ingmar Lippert]

On 06/01/2022 11:16, Ankur Sinha wrote:
>  
>  Hello Ingmar!
>  
>  You've been around long enough so I don't feel like you're a newcomer,
>  but welcome anyway :) 
Thank you! Nice to feel welcomed! not the first time I have this feeling 
in the Fedora community, though - a wonderful repeating experience.

> > Software-wise, my personal medium term objective is to learn to
> package
> > https://github.com/ccbogel/QualCoder.
>  
>  That's great. Please do let us know if we can help with this. A few of
>  us are sponsors to the package maintainers group and will be able to help
>  with guiding you through the process/pipeline. 
ok, thanks a lot!

On that occasion a meta communication question: given the plenty 
platforms of communication, would I write here, or simply at ask.fp.org? 
I ask because I sometimes feel uncertain of what the preferred channels 
of conversation are.

>  
>  It's great to have more folks from the research/science side of things.
>  We have the Science and Technology SIG here, so worth joining that too
>  I'd say:
>  
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SciTech_SIG 
check, looking forward to seeing what happens in that space.

>  
>  We also have specialised SIGs for some sciences. I'm aware of the
>  Astronomy, Neuroscience, Robotics SIGs. So if you'd like, you could even
>  look into starting a SIG for the Social sciences. I'm sure there'll be
>  quite a bit of interest there too :) 
SIG Social Science sounds like something I can
well invest some time in. 
Should I first get in touch with people who might be interested, and 
send out a call on some mailing list, or on the discussion site? Or how 
would I push for this kind of idea.

Cheers
Ingmar
p.s. oh, no, missed indicating the snipping.

[Ankur Sinha]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 12:52:31 +0100, Ingmar Lippert wrote:
>  
>  
>  On 06/01/2022 11:16, Ankur Sinha wrote:
>  > 
>  <snip> 
>  On that occasion a meta communication question: given the plenty
> platforms
>  of communication, would I write here, or simply at ask.fp.org? I ask because
>  I sometimes feel uncertain of what the preferred channels of conversation
>  are. 
I think for anything general, you can use the Join SIG's channels. We'll
be able to help or direct you to the right places. The Fedora teams all
have their own communication channels (and ticketing systems) so when
working with a team, we try and use whatever they use.

Ask.fp.o is mainly for troubleshooting, not so much for community
activities.

>  
>  > 
>  > It's great to have more folks from the research/science side of things.
>  > We have the Science and Technology SIG here, so worth joining that too
>  > I'd say:
>  > 
>  > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SciTech_SIG
>  
>  check, looking forward to seeing what happens in that space.
>  
>  > 
>  > We also have specialised SIGs for some sciences. I'm aware of the
>  > Astronomy, Neuroscience, Robotics SIGs. So if you'd like, you could even
>  > look into starting a SIG for the Social sciences. I'm sure there'll be
>  > quite a bit of interest there too :)
>  SIG Social Science sounds like something I can well invest some time in.
>  Should I first get in touch with people who might be interested, and send
>  out a call on some mailing list, or on the discussion site? Or how would I
>  push for this kind of idea. 
I'd recommend discussion.fp.o, and the devel mailing list. That way
you'll reach out to a majority of the community:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/

All the infra etc. can be set up quite easily once you folks know what
you need.

-- 
Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) |
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
Time zone: Europe/London