Hello Ankur & Miller, First of all, thank you for the quick reply guys :) . I've gone through each of the categories you listed thoroughly but couldn't choose a pick since I find some categories equally interested in contributing to. As you've asked, I'm listing down some more information about myself so that you could help me in choosing which category that suits me the most. I know the basics of languages such as python, c++, javascript, HTML and some AngularJS too. I've also completed a shopping cart based on AngularJS and JSON. Since you've asked about the languages, I would like to work with languages like python and HTML. Thank you.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Ankur Sinha <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 17:46 +0530, Vaishnav Sivadas wrote: > > Hello there, > > Hiya Vaishnav, > > > > > I'm a Computer Science student studying at Amrita University, India > > and also an active FOSS club member here. I am totally new to open > > source development and wish to contribute to Fedora. Can I get > > suggestions for where to start? > > Welcome to the Fedora community! > > Matthew's already pointed you to wcidff which is a great place to > start. We can give you more personalised suggestions if you tell us a > little more about yourself? How about: > > - what sort of tasks do you enjoy working on? > > The community, broadly speaking, has a few roles. I'll try to give you > a short overview of them: > > 1. Developer: > Of course, our package maintainers, testing teams, folks from the > infrastructure team that develop applications to enable us to work > together, and that sort. This requires some knowledge of programming, > and different build systems such as cmake, autotools. > This is quite technical and requires programming expertise. > > 2. Content writer: > In this role, you do a lot of writing ;). You can help with writing > documentation which is more technical, or you can help write posts on > the magazine and the community blog - tutorials, release notes, FAQs. > You can also help in keeping the wiki up to date. > This is slightly technical and requires knowledge of how software > works, or how it is to be used. You don't need to know low level > programming, but knowing things like git would be useful. > > 3. Designer: > If you're into making artwork such as wallpapers, banners, t-shirts, > this is the role you pick. Also, these people design the user > interfaces for a lot of the Fedora infrastructure applications - so web > design is a large part of this too. > Not technical in the programming sense, but it'll be helpful if you > know tools like Gimp and Inkscape - masks and all that (even blender!) > > 4. Translator: > Take lots of software and translate it into different languages. > Not too technical, but you'll have to learn how to use the translation > tools. They're mostly GUI driven. You need to know a second language, > of course :) > > 5. Web developer or administrator > In this role, you help keep our servers and systems functional. Our > build systems, our websites, our tools - everything that is under the > fedoraproject.org domain pretty much. > This is slightly technical. You need to know how to deploy things. We > use "ansible", so some knowledge of it would come in handy. > > 6. People person: > This is where you become a Fedora ambassador and speak to people about > Fedora. Any community member can become one. This role usually suits > people that have been in Fedora for a while so they know how the > project and community works. > > So, see anything you like? :) > > If you tell us more about yourself and your interests, we can give you > some more suggestions, may be even tell you a specific team that could > use your help: > > - what programming languages/tools do you know already? > - what programming languages/tools would you like to learn? > - what sort of dayjob are you planning to work towards (so that the > role can help you get some experience and skills in that area) > > I see that you came in to the IRC channel for about 20 minutes and left > without asking us a question. Come back in and ping one of us when you > have the time. :P > > /me notes that he should document the roles nicely somewhere > -- > Thanks, > Regards, > Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha > _______________________________________________ > fedora-join mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > -- Vaishanav Sivadas Amrita University. Wordpress <https://vaishnavsivadas.wordpress.com/> | Github <https://github.com/vaishnavsivadas>
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