On Fri, 7 May 2010, Ed Smith wrote:
Hello, All-
My name is Ed and I am interested in getting involved with the Fedora project. To give
you some of my background, I have a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering but
have spent the majority of my professional career in the realm of scientific application
programming, system administration and network security. I have contributed to
open source projects in the past mostly with code contributions that included random
patch submissions for the FreeBSD project. I am adept at most compiled/scripted
languages to include C, C++, ObjC, Python, Bash, etc with the exclusion of Java/C#.
After several years I am again in a position where I can contribute again to the F/OSS
community. In the past I mostly used the BSD flavor of UNIX OSes, Debian and Solaris but
I recently tried Redhat again after a number of years and I am quite impressed
with the latest iterations of the package. I'll be lurking on the list and on the
IRC channel from time to time if anyone is interested in a somewhat veteran hand. As a
note, in the past I had an array of hardware and processor architectures that I could
test various code on but at the moment I am limited to one x86 desktop machine for any
development and testing. Thank you for your time and have a nice day.
Hey ed, welcome. Were you interested specifically in the infrastructure
group or just any area of Fedora?
-Mike