Hi everybody, I have been a bit far from Gentoo for a rather long time now. I joined Gentoo in 2013 and I used to be a translator for the French language. At this time, I had to become a developer in order to be able to submit my work in the previous documentation system – but in reality I am not a developer at all. Nowadays, with the new wiki – which I can see grow and improve day after day – it is no longer necessary for people like me become a developer.
At the beginning I could get a friendly and patient help from Sven Vermeulen who introduced me and was my mentor for a while. I am very grateful to him because it is not something obvious for someone who is not a computer scientist to enter a world like the Gentoo Community and Sven contributed a lot to make me feel at home. Recently, I decided to join the Fedora community to help as a translator again. It a very different distribution and community but my previous experience at Gentoo is very valuable. Arriving in this new home, I told them all the good I think of the Gentoo distribution and of its people. If there is one distribution which made me progress substantially in my understanding of the Linux system, it is Gentoo, with no doubt. Before leaving your community, I want to wish you all the best and thank you very much for your constant effort to make free and open source software available to everyone. With kind regards José
