This is the reply I sent Stephen, I meant to send to the list as well...
On Aug 21, 2012 7:42 PM, "Jayson Rowe" <jaysonr(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Steward, Stephen
<stewards2(a)mailbox.winthrop.edu> wrote:
> I am a regular user of Fedora and want to contribute. I am a college
student
> majoring in Computer Science. My knowledge of code is not that
extensive,
> but it will get better as the semesters go on. I was looking
into the
> Ambassador Project and thinking about being a Campus Ambassador. Are
these
> things that a full-time college student would be able to handle?
If
not, are
> there any other areas that I could contribute?
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Hi Stephen,
Welcome! I see you go to Winthrop, awesome. I live in Darlington, SC
(work in Florence). I am an Ambassador, and the Ambassador project is
awesome. It's a good starting point, however you may want to get
involved in some other area first, to get to know some folks and just
kinda see how Fedora works. One thing you could do, is log into
#fedora-ambassadors on IRC (freenode) and say hi to everyone (I'm
jaysonr on freenode). Once you are sure you want to be an ambassador,
you can follow this process:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_Join_start
Another possibility is getting involved in some SIG's (Special
Interest Groups) that center around things you are interested in from
Fedora yourself (for example, I'm a member of the KDE, Ruby and Xfce
SIG's). I'm sure you may have seen this already, but here is a section
on the Fedora website about some of the areas where you can get
involved:
http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora
You will also want to go ahead and start creating a Wiki page (part of
becoming an Ambassador anyway), here is mine
(
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jaysonr) and you can look at some
others as well.
All of my contact info is on my Wiki page, as well as this e-mail
address I'm sending from, so feel free to contact me anytime if you'd
like some guidance.
Above all, welcome to the Fedora community!