Hello

[Ed Smith]

Hi, Mike-
At some point, I would like to get involved in a more specific systems
contribution group but considering my current "newbness" to the Fedora
system in general it seemed like a good idea to maybe start with the
infrastructure group to get a good overall handle on the distribution before
trying to dive into something deeper.  Currently, I am spending my free time
by catching up on some of the Fedora implementations on things like the
package manager, yum (after coming from the world of the bsd ports system
and the apt-get system), the SELinux implementation, the new dm_crypt
implementation, etc.  If there are any current projects that need an extra
hand and/or eye, I'd be happy to help if I can.  I imagine everyone is most
likely in crunch mode with release 13 right around the corner.
V/R
ed

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> On Fri, 7 May 2010, Ed Smith wrote:
>
> > Hello, All-
> > My name is Ed and I am interested in getting involved with the Fedora
> project.  To give you some of my background, I have a Bachelor's degree in
> Electrical Engineering but
> > have spent the majority of my professional career in the realm of
> scientific application programming, system administration and network
> security.  I have contributed to
> > open source projects in the past mostly with code contributions that
> included random patch submissions for the FreeBSD project.  I am adept at
> most compiled/scripted
> > languages to include C, C++, ObjC, Python, Bash, etc with the exclusion
> of Java/C#.  After several years I am again in a position where I can
> contribute again to the F/OSS
> > community.  In the past I mostly used the BSD flavor of UNIX OSes, Debian
> and Solaris but I recently tried Redhat again after a number of years and I
> am quite impressed
> > with the latest iterations of the package.  I'll be lurking on the list
> and on the IRC channel from time to time if anyone is interested in a
> somewhat veteran hand.  As a
> > note, in the past I had an array of hardware and processor architectures
> that I could test various code on but at the moment I am limited to one x86
> desktop machine for any
> > development and testing.  Thank you for your time and have a nice day.
> >
>
> Hey ed, welcome.  Were you interested specifically in the infrastructure
> group or just any area of Fedora?
>
>        -Mike
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