Introduction

[Benjamin J. Thompson]

Hello everyone,

I've been a Linux user since about 2000 when a friend installed
Mandrake for me and I've at least dual-booted ever since. I became a
consistent Fedora user starting around version 4 when it was still
called Fedora Core. I'm excited by the idea of finally giving back. At
work I do mostly sysadmin and devops work, but I get a lot of enjoyment
out of coding too.

I'm still getting around to reading all the documentation on
contributing, but if anyone has advice about maintaining packages or
other backend work that keeps the quality of the distribution high, I
am all ears.

--
Benjamin J. Thompson

[Steve Cossette]

(Sorry, I replied to your personal email by mistake)

Hello Benjamin and welcome to Fedora!

If you want to become a packager, the way I've done it is by sending a 
message to the owner of a package you use yourself and love using see if 
he could take you in as a co-packager and sponsor you.

I would also get involved by subbing to the devel and packaging mailing 
lists.

But yeah that's how I would start if I were you.

On 3/22/22 16:39, Benjamin J. Thompson wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been a Linux user since about 2000 when a friend installed
> Mandrake for me and I've at least dual-booted ever since. I became a
> consistent Fedora user starting around version 4 when it was still
> called Fedora Core. I'm excited by the idea of finally giving back. At
> work I do mostly sysadmin and devops work, but I get a lot of enjoyment
> out of coding too.
>
> I'm still getting around to reading all the documentation on
> contributing, but if anyone has advice about maintaining packages or
> other backend work that keeps the quality of the distribution high, I
> am all ears.
>
> --
> Benjamin J. Thompson
>
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[Sung Jun Noh]

Hello!

My name is Sung Jun and I'm a student and a hobbyist programmer. I'm
unfortunately not planning to directly contribute to the Fedora project.
However, I would like to potentially explore the Fedora project as for my
coursework, which requires me to do primary market research from an
organization. I wasn't sure what was the best channel for such inquiries,
but I figured fedora-join could be appropriate.

I'd like to get in touch and arrange interviews with the Fedora leadership
(Fedora council, engineering committee, and/or mindshare committee), as
well as surveys amongst willing contributors at large as part of coursework
requirements. The coursework is to be completed by next fall - so they are
at liberty to select a time as they see fit, while being mindful of their
other obligations. However, I'd like to get something arranged by April
4th, when the research proposal is due. So, please help me get in contact
with the right people.

Thank you for helping me out.

Best regards,
Sung Jun

Twitter: https://twitter.com/0som8
Github: https://github.com/0something0
Discord: 0som (find me on the Fedora discord!)

[Sung Jun Noh]

Oops - should have started a new thread instead of replying to an existing
thread - I'm still getting the hang of mailing lists, sorry