On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 04:57:09PM +0200, José Fournier wrote: > 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. >
Hi José, Although it's sad to see you leave, I feel it's more like a mutation than a farewell. I'm glad you continue to contribute to the open source/free software community, and wish you all the best within the Fedora community. With kind regards, Sven Vermeulen aka SwifT