June status update for Fedora Infrastructure Apprentices

[Remy DeCausemaker]

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Remy DeCausemaker 
<decause at redhat.com>
Fedora Community Lead & Council Member
http://whatcanidoforfedora.org

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin at scrye.com>
> To: fi-apprentice-members at fedoraproject.org, "Fedora Infrastructure" <infrastructure at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 10:07:05 AM
> Subject: June status update for Fedora Infrastructure Apprentices
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> You are getting this email because you are in the 'fi-apprentice' group
> in the fedora account system (or are reading this on the
> infrastructure list).
> 
> Feel free to reply just directly to me, or cc the infrastructure list
> for everyone to see and comment on.
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Apprentice
> 
> At the first of every month(or so), I am going to be sending out an
> email like this one. I would like feedback on how things are going for
> you.
> 
> I'd like to ask for everyone to send me a quick reply with the
> following data or anything related you can think of that might help us
> make the apprentice program more useful.
> 
> 0. Whats your fedora account system login?

decause

> 
> 1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to look at
> our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to?

No, but I'm *very* new to fi-apprentice. I do plan to, to help wrangle fedora-hubs prototype code, and perhaps experiement some one-off webapps.
> 
> 2. Has it helped you decide any area you wish to focus on or contribute
> to more?

I haven't logged in yet, so N/A.

> 
> 3. Have you looked at or been able to work on any of the fi-apprentice
> 'easyfix' tickets?
> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/14

I have, and I'm *quite* interested in helping with #3617 :)
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3617


> 
> 4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for whatever
> reason) could you provide any hints to help others down the road?

YES! :)

> 
> 5. Is there any help or communication or ideas you have that would help
> you do any of the above?

I'd be interested in helping to populate the Fedora-Infra Hubs page, so that we can pose these questions (and answers) to potential new contributors :)

> 
> 6. What do you find to be the hardest part of getting involved?
> Finding things to work on? Getting attention from others to help you?
> Finding tickets in your interest area?

Easy-fix tickets I spose. The queue is definitely pretty dated...

> 
> 7. Have you been able to make any weekly irc meetings? Do you find them
> helpful or interesting?

Historically, I have had conflicting meetings as a professor teaching courses, but those are done now as of 1 week ago :)

> 
> 8. Have you logged into our Gobby instance and read/seen/added to our
> meeting agenda? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Gobby

I was able to make the last meeting, and I did connect to Gobby.
> 
> 9. If you could go to any place on earth for a vacation, where would it
> be?

Somewhere with lots of snow, and lots of bandwidth :)

> 
> Any other general feedback is also quite welcome, including
> improvements to this email, the wiki page, etc.

Moving forward with Hubs, there is an opportunity to corral all the things, and I want to help make that happen. I am *horribly* biased, but I think there is much potential for things like fedmsg and fedora badges. I will continue getting more involved and learning as much as I can.


> 
> Any folks I do not hear from in the next week will be removed from the
> group. (Note that it's easy to be readded when you have time or
> whatever and it's nothing at all personal, we just want to keep the
> group up to date with active folks).
> 
> Thanks, and looking forward to your feedback!
> 
> kevin
> 

Thank YOU!
--RemyD.