On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 08:20:56PM +0000, FreedomBen via devel wrote: > Hi all,
Welcome! > My name is Ben Porter. I've been a Fedora user since the Gnome 2 days (Fedora > 13). I used to distro hop a lot but always ended up back on Fedora due to a > high level of alignment on philosophy between myself and the Fedora Project. > I did have a sordid love affair with Arch for a few years on my personal > laptop/desktop (although after about 6 months on Arch I came crawling back to > "Beefy Miracle" when an X update trashed my system at the worst possible > time. After that Fedora ran my work machine always). Around 2016 I nuked and > paved the last remaining non-Fedora machine. > > My background is in primarily software development all over the tech stack. > C/C++, Ruby, JavaScript, Elixir, Go, and a few others. I've always been kind > of a backend/infrastructure kind of guy but working at various startups I've > had to wear hats. I'm a security nerd too. I did my masters in Cyber-security > and typically specialize in security aspects of whatever product I'm working > with. I did an associates in electrical engineering and worked as a hardware > tech for a few years while getting a CS degree so I have an interest in > hardware too. My current day job is as an architect for Red Hat doing > OpenShift stuff. That includes a lot of automation, some development, and > lots of architecture planning. > > After many years of thinking about it, I'm finally getting involved in > Fedora. I maintain a couple of RPM packages, one of which I want to get > included in the repos because it belongs there (source is here: > https://github.com/FreedomBen/pick-rpm). I expect to have to change stuff to > make it work with Fedora's automated system but currently I just use Podman > to crank out the builds. Besides maintaining that rpm package, I'm pretty > open to helping out with other stuff time permitting. Here's my github if you > want to look at some stuff I've done: https://github.com/freedomben Cool. Do take a look at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers and feel free to ask questions here or on matrix/irc. :) > Anyway, I'm excited to be here and hopeful that I can do something to improve > the best distro there is. If you need help with something hit me up and we > can chat about it to see if I'd be a good fit. > > Looking forward to "meeting" you, > > Ben Nice to meet you too! kevin
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