[Fedora-join] (no subject)

[Dan Mashal]

IRC is really important to contributing.

It's as simple as the following:

su -c 'yum install BitchX'

BitchX yournick irc.freenode.net

/join #fedora-join

Thanks,
Dan

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Leslie S Satenstein
<lsatenstein at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hi can I contribute if I do not use IRC (Freenode).
>
> I find that my time is limited. I can read an email, so I do not have to
> be online to watch the chats.
> I prefer to have some documents, code, executable, script thrown my way,
> and I can install and test same, or update /write good concise accurate
> documentation
>
> I used to prgram in assembler, for speed and size, but currently do most
> of my coding in C or C++.
>
> I do substantial writng on technical stuff, and when I reread it a few
> days later, I am impressed with how good it is. (Self praise is no glory,
> but good lucid explanations in grammatical sentence construction helps)
>
> Some feedback please.  Please mention Fedora-Join in the subject line.
> *
>
>
> *
> Regards
>  *
>  Leslie
> *
> *Mr. Leslie Satenstein
> *50 years in Information Technology and going strong.
> Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day,
> and tomorrow will be even better.
>
> mailto:lsatenstein at yahoo.com <lsatenstein at yahoo.com>
> alternative: leslie.satenstein at itbms.biz
> www.itbms.biz  www.eclipseguard.com
>
>
> --- On *Tue, 8/21/12, Jayson Rowe <jayson.rowe at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Jayson Rowe <jayson.rowe at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-join] (no subject)
> To: fedora-join at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 8:13 PM
>
>
> This is the reply I sent Stephen, I meant to send to the list as well...
>
> On Aug 21, 2012 7:42 PM, "Jayson Rowe" <jaysonr at fedoraproject.org<http://mc/compose?to=jaysonr@fedoraproject.org>>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Steward, Stephen
> > <stewards2 at mailbox.winthrop.edu<http://mc/compose?to=stewards2@mailbox.winthrop.edu>>
> wrote:
> > > I am a regular user of Fedora and want to contribute. I am a college
> student
> > > majoring in Computer Science. My knowledge of code is not that
> extensive,
> > > but it will get better as the semesters go on. I was looking into the
> > > Ambassador Project and thinking about being a Campus Ambassador. Are
> these
> > > things that a full-time college student would be able to handle? If
> not, are
> > > there any other areas that I could contribute?
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > fedora-join mailing list
> > > fedora-join at lists.fedoraproject.org<http://mc/compose?to=fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-join
> > >
> >
> > Hi Stephen,
> > Welcome! I see you go to Winthrop, awesome. I live in Darlington, SC
> > (work in Florence). I am an Ambassador, and the Ambassador project is
> > awesome. It's a good starting point, however you may want to get
> > involved in some other area first, to get to know some folks and just
> > kinda see how Fedora works. One thing you could do, is log into
> > #fedora-ambassadors on IRC (freenode) and say hi to everyone (I'm
> > jaysonr on freenode). Once you are sure you want to be an ambassador,
> > you can follow this process:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_Join_start
> >
> > Another possibility is getting involved in some SIG's (Special
> > Interest Groups) that center around things you are interested in from
> > Fedora yourself (for example, I'm a member of the KDE, Ruby and Xfce
> > SIG's). I'm sure you may have seen this already, but here is a section
> > on the Fedora website about some of the areas where you can get
> > involved: http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora
> >
> > You will also want to go ahead and start creating a Wiki page (part of
> > becoming an Ambassador anyway), here is mine
> > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jaysonr) and you can look at some
> > others as well.
> >
> > All of my contact info is on my Wiki page, as well as this e-mail
> > address I'm sending from, so feel free to contact me anytime if you'd
> > like some guidance.
> >
> > Above all, welcome to the Fedora community!
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