Hey there! My name's Elliott and I'm from the UK (Europe/London). I'm a 20yo tinkerer and I have experience reporting problems and suggesting new features on various projects (e.g. Chromium, Discord), even if not to a high degree. I've also been a part of focus tests and understand how to interact with others in QA situations. This isn't my first time contributing to FOSS, with various contributions on other repositories, however I'd like to expand my horizons. I'm also a casual gamer, streamer/youtube watcher and meme connoisseur.
I used to be a part of my college's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) team for a couple of years, promoting and campaigning equality for all to my fellow students, however this was cut short by the start of Covid lockdowns in 2020, after which I had already finished my education. I also used to be an ambassador for the IT department there around the same time, encouraging newcomers. My original reason for joining was to suggest a font for packaging/default inclusion in Fedora, specifically https://github.com/unicode-org/last-resort-font, and from initial reactions from a short discussion in #fedora-i18n, it seems like it might be a good idea. Overall, I'd be happy to report bugs when I find them and suggest new functionality/features if something is bothering me, however my availability is highly variable due to some personal factors, although when I am around I usually have many hours daily to spare. I recently switched to Fedora Cinnamon as my primary OS in February, after using Windows XP, Vista, 7, 10 and 11 devices for at least 11 years (if not more), with some Apple mixed in for good(?) measure, and as such I'm still training myself out of old habits. I've had various exposures to the Linux ecosystem over the years, with the first being messing around with Damn Small Linux, then Ubuntu, however these were just for fun and were never used for long periods. My friend (who has been using Void for a long time) eventually convinced me to switch from full time Windows earlier this year, and I did my own research and thought Fedora would be the best fit for me, as opposed to other distributions. In terms of software, I am comfortable living on the edge, with examples being my previous usage of Windows 10/11 Insider (fast ring/dev channel) and current usage of Discord Canary, however my installed Fedora packages are still on stable updates after my recent transition. In the past I've tinkered with design with Photoshop etc, however I haven't quite got into the swing of things with GIMP etc. I haven't used mailing lists before, however I understand the forum-like approach. My preferred RTC platform is Discord, where you can find me at pointy#0001, however I am also available on Libera as pointy (using a friend's Quassel core). I have also helped moderate forums before in various gaming communities, and I have extensive knowledge of Discord moderation. Hope to talk to you soon! ~Elliott Tallis aka pointy _______________________________________________ fedora-join mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
