Introduction for Thorsten from Germany (thopan)
by Thorsten Panknin
Hi,
I'm Thorsten from Northern Germany, male, 48 years old, and I'm looking
into joining Fedora in order to contribute to the OS I am using.
My interest in the Fedora community and projects was sparked by the
current Creative Freedom Summit, its sessions and the interactions.
Especially with Martin Owens of the Inkscape project who's coded the
multi-page feature for Inkscape 1.2. Directly communicating with a
person behind the scenes is an awesome thing.
My hobbies include
Science Fiction in books, movies and gamesTabletop roleplaying gamesI'm
also one of the two editors of a hobby online magazine called
Lovecrafter Online. It's a project of the German Lovecraftian Society
of which I've been a member of for several years. I'm more interested
in the cosmic horror side of things, not so much in the author who
started the sub-genre
I've been using Fedora since version 36, coming from Manjaro Linux. I
really like that:
Fedora as a distribution feels so integrated and smooth,yet is on the
forefront of technology. I like regular and lots of updates to software
which Fedora provides without being a rolling release distribution.
I have a little experience with FOSS communities or ecosystems I'd say:
Many, many years ago I translated a few blog posts to German for the
XMPP communityAnd worked on a graphical redesign of a Linux
distribution's website whose name I actually have forgotten already.
That is what I am looking for:
Being involved in "my" OS, hopefully making a (small) differenceWorking
in a team with regular communication and interaction, preferably not
text-onlyI imagine my place in a FOSS community as being interactive
and socialPossibly being involved in translating texts to German, not
sure which sorts of text (Fedora magazine articles perhaps, rather
something which can be done incrementally like pages or articles of
something–no humongous material which needs ages to work through in
one go, please)Possibly getting back into design, I like Inkscape and
am currently getting into Penpot. I'd like to get into typography and
informational knowledge transfer (e.g. design which focuses on
legibility, clearness, helping people learn things via text and images)
As far as software development related things go:
I had some exposure to version control systems, but am not really
comfortable using those for some unknown reason, this might change with
some training
Experience in communication platforms:
I have used mailing lists before and already registered to the Join
SIG's oneAs far as messaging goes, I'm a Signal user and, via the
Creative Freedom Summit, have started using Matrix which I am getting
comfortable with
As far as invested hours per week go, I'm not sure. Maybe one to two
for starters.
Cheers,
Thorsten
1 month, 3 weeks
Become the Fedora contributor
by yanteng si
Dear Fedora Community
I am a contributor of the Loongson company and I am interested in becoming
a Fedora contributor.
My FAS name is siyanteng, I have two years of community development experience
in the linux kernel, during which I have submitted many patches; I have
tried lfs; I have also tried openwrt and buildroot; I have a little bit of
ability to port software to new architectures. I have about 5 hours a week
for community work.
I am interested in running linux distributions on the new instruction set
architecture. I have formed an Special interest group with three other
developers, Sun Haiyong, Wu Xiaotian, and Shi Pujin. We are going to port
Fedora for LoongArch, and Sun Haiyong has created
<https://github.com/fedora-remix- loongarch> . We now have LoongArch versions
of LiveCD for LXDE Desktop environment, LiveCD for Mate Desktop environment,
and LiveCD for WorkStation. Although there are more and more packages that
can be run on LoongArch, we are not sure what to do next. We seem to be missing
a mentor >_<.
The only thing we can think of right now is to add a LoongArch entry to the
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures> under "Alternative
Architectures".
But when I try to edit the wiki, I am told: my account must have at least
one non cla* group to be able to login and edit. Could I get help here? :)
Sincerely,
Yanteng Si
2 months, 1 week
Introduction
by vdwemil
Hi all,
My name is Emil van der Westhuizen. I am a computer engineering graduate from South Africa. I work full time as a full stack web developer. I'm interested in getting more exposure to/learning about developing services, applications (gtk and command line), and lower level system components.
Experience with Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) communities/ecosystems:
This will be my first time contributing to an open source project.
I hope to learn a lot and make more and more significant
contributions to the open source projects that I love and use on a
daily basis.
If anyone would be kind enough to offer some mentorship and help me
get on my feet with the fedora project and making contributions, I
would be very grateful.
Background/skills:
I've only been using Linux (and some FreeBSD) operating
systems for 7 years now. Fedora is my distribution of choice and
it's what I use on my personal machines.
I'm proficient with Linux and administering it from the command
line. I'm very familiar with git and use it daily.
Programming languages I mainly use and have experience with:
- Python
- Javascript (and some frontend frameworks, mostly Vue)
- Rust
Experience in communication platforms:
- I have not used mailing lists before.
- I'm open to using any chat platform but do prefer open source solutions.
- I've not moderated or administered forums before.
- I will be setting a target of contributing 2 to 4 hours a week minimum and work my way up to contributing more.
2 months, 2 weeks
Request to join Fedora Project as a developer
by dev
Dear Fedora Community,
I am a contributor of the iSecWay company and I am interested in becoming a Fedora contributor. Our software, iSecWay, helps companies build secure private networks and I would like to submit it to the Fedora repository for wider use.
I am an active member of the open source community and believe in the power of collaboration. I believe that my contribution can add value to the Fedora community and I am excited to be a part of it.
My contact information is dev(a)isecway.com. I look forward to hearing from you and joining the Fedora community.
Sincerely,
iSecWay
2 months, 2 weeks
CentOS Infra ticket account
by Li Jinghong
Hey,everyone.
My name is Jinghong Li, and I'm the administrator of a newly built public
mirror.
I would like to register our mirror site as an official mirror. According
to the official documentation, I registered a CentOS account, but this
cannot be used to log in to the CentOS Infra ticket. How should I get a
CentOS Infra ticket account?
2 months, 2 weeks