Self Introduction

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 04/29/2011 06:53 PM, John Brier wrote:
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> Hi, I'm new to contributing but not new to Linux. I started on RHL 7.1
> around 2000 and have used Slackware, Gentoo and Debian in the past. I
> was active at my university LUG and Gaming Club (running the game
> servers on Slackware) and now I work for Red Hat since August 2007 in
> support.
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Nice to meet you. I'm a long time Fedora contributor, and since
2.5 years a software engineer for RH :)

> I have been building RPMs for myself on and off almost since I started
> at Red Hat and switched from Debian to Fedora. I built RPMs for
> Rivendell [1] which is a large radio automation suite and some
> recommended getting that into Fedora but at the time it seemed too
> daunting.
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> Now I am getting into DJing and in particular using FOSS to do it. I
> have used Mixxx and xwax. I am becoming the co-maintainer of Mixxx  in
> rpmfusion [2] and have just submitted my first package review request
> for Fedora for xwax. [3] I would like to make Fedora a good platform
> for digital DJing.

Cool! (making Fedora a good platform for digital DJing) In the past
I've worked on getting as many packages as possible from planet ccrma
into Fedora to make it a better audio production platform. I've stopped
half way through because of lack of time though :|

I'm a sponsor and I would be happy to sponsor you. But first I would like
to see slightly more of your packaging skills / understanding of the
Fedora packaging guidelines (I already took a quick look
at your xwax package). There are 2 ways to show your package ninja skills,
you can create 1 or 2 more packages (which I will then review together with
pal), see here for a list of potential candidates:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList

If you would be interested in packaging up a game or 2 let me know and I'll
update the Games SIG wishlist page, as I think that needs some love :)

Also we can always use some more nice fonts in Fedora, see the fonts wishlist,
and also:
http://mairin.wordpress.com/category/unpackaged-font-of-the-week/

Or instead of doing some more packages, you could do some unofficial
reviews, also described here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group

Regards,

Hans