New Fedora member

[George Roberge]

Greetings, everyone!

I have been looking for a way to help the FOSS community, and during the
Boston GNU/Linux Fest it was recommended that I visit the Fedora table.
I'm looking for a structured group to join and do something useful for
the community, and I was told that Fedora has the structure and
organization that I seek.

Anyhow, I have been a Debian user for years, am a FOSS advocate (read
"zealot" there), and am more than willing to focus on Fedora if I can be
useful here, instead.  I did install it on my laptop, and have been
using it for a week.

I have a Jack-of-All-Trades background in IT, so I'm not a master of any
subject, so I am guessing that I would be able to serve the community
better in the Ambassador or Marketing areas, but it is naturally too
early to tell.  I have joined the Fedora site (username "uplink"), have
subscribed to a few mailing lists, and am going to start digging in,
using the "Explore the Fedora Project" page as a guide.

I'm from Western Massachusetts, and I don't know of a lot of FOSS
activity out here, but I haven't spent too much time looking.  Maybe
that will change in the future!

I hope to be able to contribute something to the project.

Take care.

[Ankur Sinha]

Hi George!

I'm really sorry I didn't reply earlier. With all the spam hitting the
moderation queue, I missed this valid email!

On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 19:49 -0400, George Roberge wrote:
> Greetings, everyone!
>
> I have been looking for a way to help the FOSS community, and during
> the Boston GNU/Linux Fest it was recommended that I visit the Fedora
> table.  I'm looking for a structured group to join and do something
> useful for the community, and I was told that Fedora has the structure
> and organization that I seek.
>
> Anyhow, I have been a Debian user for years, am a FOSS advocate (read
> "zealot" there), and am more than willing to focus on Fedora if I can
> be useful here, instead.  I did install it on my laptop, and have been
> using it for a week.
>
> I have a Jack-of-All-Trades background in IT, so I'm not a master of
> any subject, so I am guessing that I would be able to serve the
> community better in the Ambassador or Marketing areas, but it is
> naturally too early to tell.  I have joined the Fedora site (username
> "uplink"), have subscribed to a few mailing lists, and am going to
> start digging in, using the "Explore the Fedora Project" page as a
> guide.
>
> I'm from Western Massachusetts, and I don't know of a lot of FOSS
> activity out here, but I haven't spent too much time looking.  Maybe
> that will change in the future!
>
> I hope to be able to contribute something to the project.

Sounds good! If you're already familiar with linux and Fedora, I think
QA[1] would be a good place to start. With Fedora 19 Alpha just being
signed off, a lot of testing will be required for the Beta, and the
stable releases.

From the Ambassadors perspective, FAmNA[2] is very, very active. I'd
suggest you maybe attend one of their meetings and get to know them. The
hold quite a few events where you can meet the team in person and get
involved even more.

You can also help on one of our many troubleshooting channels, either on
the IRC, or the forums, or the mailing list[3]

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
[2]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Ambassadors_North_America_(FAMNA)
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help

Once again, welcome to the community. Please post if you'd like any help
with any tasks in the future, and we'll be glad to help you out.