IRC is really important to contributing. It's as simple as the following:
su -c 'yum install BitchX' BitchX yournick irc.freenode.net /join #fedora-join Thanks, Dan On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Leslie S Satenstein <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi can I contribute if I do not use IRC (Freenode). > > I find that my time is limited. I can read an email, so I do not have to > be online to watch the chats. > I prefer to have some documents, code, executable, script thrown my way, > and I can install and test same, or update /write good concise accurate > documentation > > I used to prgram in assembler, for speed and size, but currently do most > of my coding in C or C++. > > I do substantial writng on technical stuff, and when I reread it a few > days later, I am impressed with how good it is. (Self praise is no glory, > but good lucid explanations in grammatical sentence construction helps) > > Some feedback please. Please mention Fedora-Join in the subject line. > * > > > * > Regards > * > Leslie > * > *Mr. Leslie Satenstein > *50 years in Information Technology and going strong. > Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, > and tomorrow will be even better. > > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]> > alternative: [email protected] > www.itbms.biz www.eclipseguard.com > > > --- On *Tue, 8/21/12, Jayson Rowe <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Jayson Rowe <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Fedora-join] (no subject) > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 8:13 PM > > > This is the reply I sent Stephen, I meant to send to the list as well... > > On Aug 21, 2012 7:42 PM, "Jayson Rowe" > <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Steward, Stephen > > <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > I am a regular user of Fedora and want to contribute. I am a college > student > > > majoring in Computer Science. My knowledge of code is not that > extensive, > > > but it will get better as the semesters go on. I was looking into the > > > Ambassador Project and thinking about being a Campus Ambassador. Are > these > > > things that a full-time college student would be able to handle? If > not, are > > > there any other areas that I could contribute? > > > _______________________________________________ > > > fedora-join mailing list > > > [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-join > > > > > > > Hi Stephen, > > Welcome! I see you go to Winthrop, awesome. I live in Darlington, SC > > (work in Florence). I am an Ambassador, and the Ambassador project is > > awesome. It's a good starting point, however you may want to get > > involved in some other area first, to get to know some folks and just > > kinda see how Fedora works. One thing you could do, is log into > > #fedora-ambassadors on IRC (freenode) and say hi to everyone (I'm > > jaysonr on freenode). Once you are sure you want to be an ambassador, > > you can follow this process: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_Join_start > > > > Another possibility is getting involved in some SIG's (Special > > Interest Groups) that center around things you are interested in from > > Fedora yourself (for example, I'm a member of the KDE, Ruby and Xfce > > SIG's). I'm sure you may have seen this already, but here is a section > > on the Fedora website about some of the areas where you can get > > involved: http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora > > > > You will also want to go ahead and start creating a Wiki page (part of > > becoming an Ambassador anyway), here is mine > > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jaysonr) and you can look at some > > others as well. > > > > All of my contact info is on my Wiki page, as well as this e-mail > > address I'm sending from, so feel free to contact me anytime if you'd > > like some guidance. > > > > Above all, welcome to the Fedora community! > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > > _______________________________________________ > fedora-join mailing list > [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-join > > > _______________________________________________ > fedora-join mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-join > >
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