Introduction

[Youssef Mahmoud]

Hello,

I'm interested in contributing to Fedora and would like to introduce 
myself. My name is Youssef. My Fedora account username is humanamerican 
and my Matrix username is @eusseph:matrix.org. I started using Linux in 
college and by now am a Fedora daily driver. I have experience in Linux 
sys admin, technical documentation writing, and software development. 
Other interests include space, history, urbanism, buffalo wings, and 
craft beer. I also have plenty of experience volunteering for 
non-profits and currently serve on the board of an organization in my 
neighborhood.

I love FOSS and always try to find FOSS solutions before using 
proprietary software. However, aside from helping people out in forums, 
I have yet to contribute to a FOSS project. Being that I use Fedora 
every day, I figured it would be a good place to start. I'm always down 
to learn something new so I think I could contribute pretty much 
anywhere that more hands are needed, with the exception of graphic 
design (unless you want lots of stick figures).

I'd like to contribute about 5 hours a week to start and see where that 
takes me.

Thanks for reading my intro. I welcome all suggestions for a good "first 
contribution" to get my feet wet.

Best,

Youssef

[Steve Cossette]

Welcome to Fedora, Youssef!

My suggestion is, join Matrix channels of SiGs that might interest you. If
you see things that are needed, submit PRs. In time, people will get to
know you, and you may be offered a spot in the SIG! :)

That's how I'd do it anyway. This is the official Fedora docs article on
how to do it: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/join/

Steve

On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM Youssef Mahmoud via fedora-join <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm interested in contributing to Fedora and would like to introduce
> myself. My name is Youssef. My Fedora account username is humanamerican
> and my Matrix username is @eusseph:matrix.org. I started using Linux in
> college and by now am a Fedora daily driver. I have experience in Linux
> sys admin, technical documentation writing, and software development.
> Other interests include space, history, urbanism, buffalo wings, and
> craft beer. I also have plenty of experience volunteering for
> non-profits and currently serve on the board of an organization in my
> neighborhood.
>
> I love FOSS and always try to find FOSS solutions before using
> proprietary software. However, aside from helping people out in forums,
> I have yet to contribute to a FOSS project. Being that I use Fedora
> every day, I figured it would be a good place to start. I'm always down
> to learn something new so I think I could contribute pretty much
> anywhere that more hands are needed, with the exception of graphic
> design (unless you want lots of stick figures).
>
> I'd like to contribute about 5 hours a week to start and see where that
> takes me.
>
> Thanks for reading my intro. I welcome all suggestions for a good "first
> contribution" to get my feet wet.
>
> Best,
>
> Youssef
>
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