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