Hi there,
I’m new here so I’d like to introduce myself. I want to join the Fedora Project because I think it's really exciting to see linux desktop grow, and the innovation that comes out of here is inspiring! I'm studying Computer Science in Prague, I like programming (especially Haskell, Kotlin or C++), and I have some experience with Linux programming in C, so I’m particularly looking to contribute on the technical side of things. Some other things I like are climbing, squash and languages. Overall, I’m looking forward to getting to know the people behind Fedora and learning some cool things along the way :)
Regards, Laurence @xorandor
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 07:28:16PM +0100, Laurence Pettitt wrote:
I’m new here so I’d like to introduce myself. I want to join the Fedora Project because I think it's really exciting to see linux desktop grow, and the innovation that comes out of here is inspiring! I'm studying Computer Science in Prague, I like programming (especially Haskell, Kotlin or C++), and I have some experience with Linux programming in C, so I’m particularly looking to contribute on the technical side of things. Some other things I like are climbing, squash and languages. Overall, I’m looking forward to getting to know the people behind Fedora and learning some cool things along the way :)
Welcome, Laurence! There's certainly plenty to get involved in! For technical things, are you more interested in:
* the tooling that helps us make and test the release (infrastructure)?
* other community infrastructure tooling (websites and apps)?
* helping make useful software available to users (packaging)?
* improving the software that goes in the desktop (Workstation, KDE, or other team)?
On 25 Nov 2021, at 23:47, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Welcome, Laurence! There's certainly plenty to get involved in! For technical things, are you more interested in:
the tooling that helps us make and test the release (infrastructure)?
other community infrastructure tooling (websites and apps)?
helping make useful software available to users (packaging)?
improving the software that goes in the desktop (Workstation, KDE, or
other team)?
Cheers Mathew!
Right now I think I’m more interested in improving the software that goes in the desktop. Although I’m curious to peek at infrastructure and packaging too.
Laurence
On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 02:40:05PM +0100, Laurence Pettitt wrote:
Right now I think I’m more interested in improving the software that goes in the desktop. Although I’m curious to peek at infrastructure and packaging too.
Sounds good! Check out https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/workstation-working-group/ for the folks working on Fedora Workstation, or https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/ for Silverblue if you'd like to help hack on that up-and-coming desktop concept.
Note that _most_ of the work for desktop software itself doesn't happen here in Fedora. It happens in the various upstream projects (GNOME, Firefox, Inkscape, etc.) and we work to integrate that work in a way that's friendly for our users. But we can always use more "bridge" folks working between Fedora and those projects.
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