On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 08:20:56PM +, FreedomBen via devel wrote:
> Hi all,
Welcome!
> My name is Ben Porter. I've been a Fedora user since the Gnome 2 days (Fedora
> 13). I used to distro hop a lot but always ended up back on Fedora due to a
> high level of alignment on philosophy between myself and the Fedora Project.
> I did have a sordid love affair with Arch for a few years on my personal
> laptop/desktop (although after about 6 months on Arch I came crawling back to
> "Beefy Miracle" when an X update trashed my system at the worst possible
> time. After that Fedora ran my work machine always). Around 2016 I nuked and
> paved the last remaining non-Fedora machine.
>
> My background is in primarily software development all over the tech stack.
> C/C++, Ruby, JavaScript, Elixir, Go, and a few others. I've always been kind
> of a backend/infrastructure kind of guy but working at various startups I've
> had to wear hats. I'm a security nerd too. I did my masters in Cyber-security
> and typically specialize in security aspects of whatever product I'm working
> with. I did an associates in electrical engineering and worked as a hardware
> tech for a few years while getting a CS degree so I have an interest in
> hardware too. My current day job is as an architect for Red Hat doing
> OpenShift stuff. That includes a lot of automation, some development, and
> lots of architecture planning.
>
> After many years of thinking about it, I'm finally getting involved in
> Fedora. I maintain a couple of RPM packages, one of which I want to get
> included in the repos because it belongs there (source is here:
> https://github.com/FreedomBen/pick-rpm). I expect to have to change stuff to
> make it work with Fedora's automated system but currently I just use Podman
> to crank out the builds. Besides maintaining that rpm package, I'm pretty
> open to helping out with other stuff time permitting. Here's my github if you
> want to look at some stuff I've done: https://github.com/freedomben
Cool. Do take a look at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers
and feel free to ask questions here or on matrix/irc. :)
> Anyway, I'm excited to be here and hopeful that I can do something to improve
> the best distro there is. If you need help with something hit me up and we
> can chat about it to see if I'd be a good fit.
>
> Looking forward to "meeting" you,
>
> Ben
Nice to meet you too!
kevin
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