On 3/11/13 10:34 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
The list has been too quiet of late. Yet, I've been getting
subscription
notifications telling me that new people are in-fact subscribing to the
list. The logical conclusion here is that new people are joining the
list, but *not* using it. I'm not sure why that would be. Are new comers
shy, or are they scared of being flamed, or is there another reason?
Shy mostly, and busy! I really haven't said much because it's been quiet
and nobody else has.
In the unlikely case that you have no questions and are well on your
way
to contributing to Fedora, I'll request you to at least send the list an
e-mail introducing yourself. That'll tell us who you are, what you do,
what you want to work on, and we can help you and introduce you to more
folks that we know.
I'm a System Administrator on the US West Coast (Portland). We are
primarily a Windows shop, but I've been somewhat successful in bringing
more Linux systems into what we do. I've been using Linux since
2003-ish, started with Red Hat 9 and have used most distributions for at
least a short while. Primarily servers but I've used it long term on the
desktop (/laptop) as well.
Right now I am involved in Freemedia. It was an easy group to join and
get my foot in the door. I am interested in getting involved in Infra,
but haven't really made the jump into introducing myself there. Mostly
because I don't know where to start. My reasons for wanting to get into
Infra are the overall interest in contributing to the magic side of
things people only see when broken, but I have a selfish motivation of
wanting to learn more about Linux system administration in a production
environment, and also things like puppet which I haven't gotten around
to playing with on my own, myself. I'd also like to learn Python, I
haven't had the proper motivation of projects to do so on my own.