Hello, I'm Aaron Gibbs. I have 20+ years as an IT Director in the automotive industry. I've been working with Linux for 2 years and distro-hopped enough to find that Fedora was the right OS for me. I have college experience programming in the various .NET languages and HTML but mostly what my job has kept me doing is software-integration, or another way to put it, getting it all to work together. I've been interested in bringing Fedora into my work environment for the security, ease of use, and a general dislike of the direction Microsoft is taking Windows (Hello Explorer Ads!). With much of my industry leaning away from proprietary software and more toward web-browser-based format it's getting easier to pull away from the MS ecosystem. I feel that I could best contribute in software testing but am willing to throw my hat in the ring wherever I can be helpful. Thank you for your consideration.
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 18:40:24 -0000, Aaron Gibbs wrote:
Hello, I'm Aaron Gibbs.
Hi Aaron!
Welcome to the community!
I have 20+ years as an IT Director in the automotive industry. I've been working with Linux for 2 years and distro-hopped enough to find that Fedora was the right OS for me. I have college experience programming in the various .NET languages and HTML but mostly what my job has kept me doing is software-integration, or another way to put it, getting it all to work together. I've been interested in bringing Fedora into my work environment for the security, ease of use, and a general dislike of the direction Microsoft is taking Windows (Hello Explorer Ads!). With much of my industry leaning away from proprietary software and more toward web-browser-based format it's getting easier to pull away from the MS ecosystem.
I feel that I could best contribute in software testing but am willing to throw my hat in the ring wherever I can be helpful. Thank you for your consideration.
That's great to hear!
There's no real formal process to joining the community. One finds a team/area/sub-project that they're interested in and just "jumps in".
This can be quite daunting though, given how large and spread out the community is. So, we have a "welcome to Fedora" process to help new folks learn about how/what/why/when/where the community does things.
Should we start this process for you? https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Welcome-to-Fedora
(Take a look at some of the issues there to see what information it gives you)
The Fedora Quality Assurance (QA) team is in-charge of most of the software testing in the community. You can learn more about them here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org
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