Hi all,

I am interested in helping out with testing for Fedora.  I have been using Linux on and off since the late 90s, I played around a bit with Red Hat and Debian in the 90s but never got far though.  I have been using Ubuntu on and off since the mid 2000s, spent a couple of years using Arch Linux as my main OS in the late 2000s, but I got sick of fixing things constantly so I went back to Windows.  I did start using Ubuntu Gnome as my main OS about 2 years ago but I very recently (this week!) installed Fedora 24 and will use that as my main OS.  The reason I changed is because I felt I would learn more about Linux in general by using Fedora and also I liked the security aspects of Fedora over Ubuntu.

I consider myself a Windows power user but still a beginner to intermediate Linux user.  I just finished the Linux Foundation Linux 101 course on edX and I would like to continue learning more about Fedora and Linux in general and I figured doing software testing is a good start.  I have done some software testing before through work, mainly supporting developers and testers as an ICT Business Analyst but I have also written and executed test cases.  I do work full time in ICT doing data extraction and manipulation with SQL and Regex.  I am also doing a computer science degree part time, which I am about a third of the way through.  I haven't done much programming yet in the degree but in about 6 months I will be doing a lot of programming.

Unfortunately because of my current commitments I don't have a great deal of time but I feel I can definitely allocate 30 minutes a day 7 days a week to Fedora software testing.  My IRC nick is blindcant, but I just have to configure Weechat before joining the IRC channel.  I would eventually like to help out the Fedora Project by writing documentation and also contributing code, but my knowledge isn't good enough on Fedora or Linux or programming to do that just yet, so again, I think software testing is a great place to start.  I am looking forward to working and communicating with you all.

Dallas aka blindcant.