Oh wow! Thank you so much. I recognize Nenad's name and I will shoot
him an e-mail. Thank you for the contacts to the others as well as the
marketing list and all the other mailing lists. I'll check those out!
Greg, I love OBS. I remember playing with it last year. Was a lot of
fun. I love the idea of getting back to that.
Shawn, I'll drop in sometime soon.
Lee
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Richard Brown
On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 08:43 -0400, Lee Ward wrote:
Hello to everyone. It was recommended to me by someone who works with openSUSE to join this mailing list and introduce myself since I am very interested in getting involved again with a Linux/open source project.
Hi Lee, nice to meet you!
My name is Lee Ward. I previously worked with the Fuduntu Linux project a couple years ago and was in charge of communications/public relations and was in charge of managing all the social media, interviews, and press releases. Additionally, I worked with packaging, testing, and supporting end users. I have a little programming knowledge and about intermediate understanding of administration, etc. of Linux. I've been using Linux since 1998 and SuSE was one of the first distros I used.
As I stated above, I am very interested in getting involved again with a Linux or other open source project. Towards the end of the Fuduntu distro, I was working closely with some openSUSE team members as some of us were looking at our options of moving forward within the Linux community. The experience was one of the best ones I ever had with a project and is why openSUSE was my first thought now that I'm ready to get my hands dirty again.
I'm not really sure who to talk to or where to go from here on getting involved and that was why someone with the distro team told me to make an introduction in hopes that perhaps someone else can help me get steered in the right direction. Thank you very much and I look forward to the opportunity to work with openSUSE.
I think Henne's given you a few good pointers to start
As communications seems to be your thing, I'd recommend you speak to Nenad (nenad@latinovic.info). He's also relatively new to our project and doing a great job with articles on http://news.opensuse.org so he can probably help you get started helping with that.
On the social media side of things, it's a little more complicated as different people are doing different things. For Facebook, I'd recommend you speak to Chuck Payne (terrorpup@opensuse.org)
For Google+, the best people to speak to are probably Roger Luedecke (roger.luedecke@gmail.com) or Ilias (zoumpis@opensuse.org)
And for twitter, I can't think of a single best person to talk to, but I'm sure someone can help if you reach out to tweet-master@opensuse.org
You probably want to subscribe to the opensuse-marketing mailinglist (just send a mail to opensuse-marketing+subscribe@opensuse.org)
In fact, it's probably a good idea to review our list of mailing lists and subscribe to those that match your interests http://lists.opensuse.org/
On the packaging or more technical side of things, I understand we're very different from what you experienced in Fuduntu where a few people did a huge amount of the packaging of the entire distro.
With our development model ( https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Factory_development_model ) we're organised into groups, dealing with the parts of the distro we're interested in (eg. GNOME, KDE, Network Monitoring, etc)
Some of these groups have mailinglists, for those that don't it's probably best to reach out on the opensuse-factory or opensuse-packaging lists, or use the search in our great build service ( http://build.opensuse.org ) to identify the maintainers for the Packages you're interested in working on.
And if you ever get lost and don't know to talk to, feel free to write emails like the one you just did here, or if the topic is a little sticky, you can always contact the openSUSE Board at board@opensuse.org who will be happy to help you.
Welcome to the Project :)
- Richard Brown openSUSE Board
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