Hi: This may be new on this list, but if you are interested (as I am) in participating and contributing in FreeIPA, a quick introduction to others is helpful. Other emails I send from now on should make more sense with this context. :)
I'd like to make it easier to join the development of the FreeIPA platform. There are a lot of places to contribute, and one really big reason to bother: If you use FreeIPA, whatever you contribute will come back to help you many times over.[1] You already participate if you are on this mailing list, if you ask and answer questions. If you are on #freeipa (irc.freenode.net), even your regular presence lurking helps us all feel there are people out there listening (and learning) when we have problems. Running the code is an important way of participating, especially if you test early, find bugs, and file reports. Yet, there are barriers that make it harder for you to easily turn participation in to a greater contribution. One of the first things I am working on is making it easier to get edit access to the wiki at http://freeipa.org. A wiki is a useful tool for collaborating on all aspects of a project. For example, some of the items on this mailing list could be in an FAQ or as a small how-to. If we can make it easy for answers to migrate from here to an organized wiki, a single contribution can have a greater effect. A very early example of what it takes to make a quick how-to/what-is page: http://freeipa.org/page/Writing_how_to_documentation_on_the_wiki http://freeipa.org/page/Category:How_to http://freeipa.org/page/Category:What_is Helping grow sustainable communities is what I do for Red Hat. You can find more through my user page: http://freeipa.org/page/User:Quaid Cheers - Karsten [1] I'm defining users as the folks I see here -- systems administrators exploring, installing, configuring, and maintaining FreeIPA. -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41
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