Hello everyone! My name is Ali, my online username is radbirb, and I go by Rad more often than not online, moving aside names, I have been involved in the Linux and FOSS worlds as a user since 2017! Though I've been off and on with Linux since 2017 up until 2021, where I've gone full focus back on the Linux desktop as my daily driver. I've been active in various Discord and Reddit communities surrounding the Linux desktop, discussing things, hanging out with friends, and providing help / support to people who need it in support channels. I've also written a few (now outdated) guides and, very recently, reworked the KDE wiki page on the Fedora Wiki (my first Fedora contribution :O). I am currently looking at contributing mostly in writing documentation and other related tasks like article writing (possibly writing stuff for the Fedora Magazine? :P), possibly promo stuff for the project? who knows! Though I am currently learning Python and looking forward to doing Compsci (or IT) in university, maybe I'll expand beyond writing-related tasks in regards to contribution sooner or later.
Fedora Linux is my main choice of OS, with my preferred desktop being KDE Plasma (KDE spin FTW!!), though OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch Linux are other distros I like using, and despite my main choice of desktop being Plasma, I'd say I'm also well versed in navigating and using GNOME (I am currently typing this from a Tumbleweed system running GNOME 46) so I hold both desktops in high regard despite my preference. I always knew about Fedora ever since I started my Linux journey back in 2017, but I didn't check it out until 2021, mostly pushed by the fact that my first Linux install in ages (KDE Neon) was broken by a mishandled-by-Neon update, and the Akademy talk held by Neal Gompa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Laat0XoWZE) also convinced me on using Fedora. I've spent the majority of my time on Fedora using the KDE spin, and I semi regularly hang out in the KDE SIG matrix channel. I also regularly recommend Fedora and help with Fedora within the communities I active in. My skills that could help the project in non-tech related areas revolve around my language proficiency and my ability to make incredibly rough mockups for demonstration purposes due to my very-not-good art skills :D. English is indeed my second language (Arabic being my native language as I am Lebanese), but I find myself to be very good at it, I often write essays, poems and slowly, stories. I think that my english is (un/fortunately?) my best language, so I'd like to make use of that to help where I can. In regards to tech related skills, I am familiar with the command line, the greater desktop Linux ecosystem, I have (atm) basic Python skills and I've done testing for both KDE Plasma 6 and Fedora 40 during their test days. I am very new to mailing lists, as this is basically my first one (unless you count bugzilla threads as such ,:P), so a lot of learning to be done there. Discord is my most used real time chat platform, but I have a Matrix account that I frequent and will probably become more active on as time goes on. Discord: @radbirb matrix: radbirb:fedora.im I look forward to being part of this community! :), Ali -- _______________________________________________ fedora-join mailing list -- fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to fedora-join-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
