Hi Justin! It's ok! I'm busy too these days. I'll take some time to explore the things in the toolbox and i'll try to acquire the Bootstrapped budges. I'm also reading the packaging guidelines because i want to include some additional software in fedora. Because it's always better to start small, i will take it slow. Anyway, i'm here to stay so i'll take some time to do my research about the project. I don't know if i can join today's meeting but i will certainly stay in touch. My irc nick has also changed from HalleBopp to anazli9. Cheers!  

2016-12-12 19:58 GMT+02:00 Justin W. Flory <jflory7@gmail.com>:
On 12/05/2016 06:05 AM, Andreas Nazlidis wrote:
Ok radka, i will join the meeting. I forgot to mention the time
zone-UTC/GMT+2 and the IRC nick-entropy.


Στις 5 Δεκ 2016 4:56 π.μ., ο χρήστης "Radka Janekova"
<radka.janek@redhat.com <mailto:radka.janek@redhat.com>> έγραψε:

    Hi Andreas,

    welcome to Fedora, i'm sure Justin will have something to say about
    metrics, when he's available to reply =)

    We have commops meeting[1] on Tuesday if you want to meet the team.

    [1] Next CommOps
    meeting: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:CommOps_2016-12-06
    <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:CommOps_2016-12-06>


    Best regards,
    Radka

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    *Radka Janeková*
    *radka.janek@redhat.com <mailto:radka.janek@redhat.com>*


    On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 9:50 PM, <andreas221b@gmail.com
    <mailto:andreas221b@gmail.com>> wrote:

        Hello, my name is andreas and i live in greece, i am a new
        fedora user
        and member, i have been using several other distros the last 5 years
        and i've finally ended up in fedora. I want to join the project in
        order to expand my knowledge, acquire new skills and of course
        to help
        the community. I am a computational physicist, i have a basic
        knowledge
        in c/c++, python, fortran77, latex, matlab/octave, git and some
        machine
        learning. I'm currently searching for a job. Finally, regarding
        CommOps, i'm interesting in metrics. I have no previous
        experience with
        any FOSS project, so some guidance would be helpful.


Hello, and welcome, Andreas! Sorry for the slow response to get back to you, December has kept me busy. We're glad to have you here with us in CommOps! Sounds like you have some good experience working with a variety of languages.

I'm happy to hear that this is your first FOSS project to contribute towards! That's a big milestone and I'm glad it can be with Fedora. Before getting started in CommOps, it will be helpful for you to explore the Fedora community a bit and see how all of the different parts fit together. Our "Join" wiki page outlines some of these steps, and if you haven't seen this page yet, definitely check this out and use it as your guidelines for getting started.

    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps/Join

One of the things I would recommend trying to do is working on acquiring the "Bootstrapped!" badges series. Fedora Badges are a fun way to get badges for doing things in Fedora. There are many good ones that will help introduce you to Fedora. You can learn more about Badges and see the Bootstrapped series below (the ticket URL has a list of badges that are good ones to get first before others):

    https://badges.fedoraproject.org/about

    https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/ticket/409

Metrics are definitely one of the things that we help work on. At Flock, the annual contributor conference, we generated some ideas for the types of metrics we wanted to try to find.

    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps/Metrics_Ideas

We have a toolbox of tools, services, and programs that can help us generate metrics in Fedora. I encourage you to explore some of the things in our toolbox and try to become familiar with some of the tools.

    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps#Metrics_2

Bee might be able to offer more specific info about metrics or about things we could use some help on.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out! We're always happy to help answer any questions while you get started. Again, welcome aboard!

--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7@gmail.com




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Computational Physicist
Physics Department
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki