Hi Tom, welcome to the Fedora Community! Thanks for introducing yourself on the mailing list. My reply is in-line below:
On 8/15/20 12:38 AM, Shehroz Kaleem wrote: > > 15.08.2020, 05:01, "Tom Collins" <tcoll...@teratux.com>: > First of all, I just want to say a MASSIVE thank you to the people > over on > #fedora-join. I joined a few days back, just watching to get my > bearings, > and when I plucked up the courage to message, I was met by "We would > love > to counsel you the way forward." THIS made me feel at ease straight > away, > and a great welcome to the Fedora family. Massive kudos to both alciregi > and shehroz on the IRC channel, you've made my entry to the FOSS > world just > that bit easier! > Thanks for sharing. Glad to hear you appreciated a warm welcome. :) > This of course will help build on my current SysAdmin skill set, > which is > admittedly built on the bubble of in-house procedures and tools we have > (something I want to change!), as well as learning how the > infrastructure > of a large FOSS organisation keeps millions of devices and users > working! One of the "bread and butter" tasks in Fedora is RPM packaging. RPM packaging is useful to get a practical understanding of how a Linux distribution comes together. It also gives some insight into challenges faced by other people who use Fedora or a derivative distro. > Having been in the IRC channels for the last few days, it would be > great to > help with the documentation side of things as well, as it's always a > challenge in all the teams I have worked in to keep it up to date and > relevant, and makes a great way to learn how an infrastructure works :) > If you have not already, I suggest joining the Fedora Docs team mailing list and a chat room (Freenode IRC (#fedora-docs), Matrix, or Telegram): https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/docs.lists.fedoraproject.org/ https://telegram.me/fedora_docs > I'm sorry this has ended up being a bit of a ramble! I hope it starts to > make sense the more I get introduced to the project more and get my > teeth > stuck in. Glad for any advice that you all have on potential directions, > and how to get started. > Looking forward to seeing you around. :-) -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory (he/him) https://jwf.io TZ=America/New_York
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