Re: Newcomer - Hello world!

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 04:55:11PM -0400, Rick Elrod wrote:
>  Hello everyone, my name is Ricky Elrod, and I am looking to
> participate in an open source project that allows me to use my knowledge of networking and
> programming, and is a good community to work with. After doing some reading, the fedora
> infrastructure team looks like the place for me. I am a senior in high school, and already
> registered at a local university (The University of Akron) to major in Computer Science in
> Fall of this year (immediately after high school).
>  
>  In high school, I participated in a Cisco class which gave me knowledge of networking
> concepts, such as dealing with Cisco-specific technologies, along with general networking,
> such as subnetting. In the programming world, I know quite a few scripting languages, such
> as PHP, Python, and Perl, and I am currently learning my first compiled language, Java. In
> the future I plan on learning C and C++, as time permits. I am active on IRC under the
> nick CodeBlock, on freenode and a few other networks, such as slashnet, and a small
> network I help administrate, Ninthbit.
>  
>  mmcgrath is willing to sponsor me, after I spoke to him on IRC. He listed a few FIGs in
> need of help, and I would like to join sysadmin-hosted, and help out with fedorahosted.
>  
>  Any other questions, just ask! I look forward to working with everyone.
>  
Welcome aboard!  I'm ababdger1999 on freenode if you need any help with
python coding or packaging I can help or at least, point you towards
a better resource :-)

-Toshio