### Experience with Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) communities/ecosystems
* I have contributed to FOSS projects previosly, including sosreport and a few others. * I see myself as an active FOSS community member and intend to participate/contribute as time allows, hopefully with an increased focus on more active participation as time permits.
### Background
My first Linux distribution was Red Hat Halloween and then Mothers day releases. I purchased the box set RH 5.2 to run on my home workstation instead of Windows 95, and replaced Linksys firewalls with it using ipchains, and later iptables. I also ran RH 7-9 on both desktop & laptops.
I migrated back to using Linux recently on both laptop and desktop around Fedora 30 release. Fedora has been my main distribution for personal use ever since. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or Rocky Linux) are my primary distributions for work & professional use.
### Skills For Enterprise Linux ecosystem I started to administer RHEL (and CentOS) around RHEL 3.x.
I have held RHCE certifications for multiple RHEL versions, as well as multiple specializations, but I never get enough specializations within 3 years to finish the architect cert before something expires. I have also held multiple MCPs (although I don't claim them anymore), the LPIC, and multiple VMware VCPs. Trained on Cisco and managed switches and routers and worked with many teams designing and deploying physical/virtual infrastructure stacks in the datacenter.
I dabble in image editing with Gimp and a few other none FOSS toos, but just a bit. I also dabble lightly with languages, just enough to read some Spanish and French, before falling back to translating the last parts to confirm if I was tracking the conversation. Never get enough practice to keep up with native speakers or hold a conversation.
I love to program in Python and am looking forward to writing Pythonic code and compiling it via Mojo using MLIR. I have deployed and used multiple version control systems, but none as much as I use and enjoy git, including playing the **OhMyGit!** games levels. I review it again every so often and have looked into making some new levels.
When I create containers they are almost always from the EL ecosystem using RHEL UBI or Rocky Linux, occasionally from Alpine or scratch, but rarely if ever Debian or Ubuntu.
### Experience with communications platforms I have used mailing lists, although I tend to be a reader of them more than actively use them.
#### Real time chat platforms: * New to Matrix, like it quite a bit * daily Slack user * occasional Mattermost user * reluctant Telegram & Discord user
### Volunteering time At least 2 hours and some weeks up to 8 hours. As time permits I plan to contribute more than 8 hours per week. However, this would probably be limited by contributions to other community based and FOSS projects I am involved in and work schedule.