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