[opensuse-project] Hello and introdution
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. 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. Lee Ward -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
Heya there! Great to see people joining the green part of GNU/Linux :) Welcome! Quoting Lee Ward <leeward1982@gmail.com>:
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.
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.
Lee Ward -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
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Hi Lee On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Lee Ward <leeward1982@gmail.com> 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.
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.
Awesome, let us know about your interests and we will get in touch with the mailing lists or the concerned person.
Lee Ward -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
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Hey Lee, On 09.07.2014 14:43, 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.
Welcome, nice to meet you :-)
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.
Do you have a rough idea what you would want to do? Something along the lines of what you have done at Fuduntu or rather something else? If you are still interested in the communication side of things I would recommend you join our news team[1] which is in desperate need of people who can and are willing to research, prepare and write content about openSUSE. And of course our development version can always use some love of a capable packager, I'm sure you can find tons of stuff to do there. Or are you up for something else entirely? Let us know! :-) Henne [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:News_team [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:How_to_contribute_to_Factory -- Henne Vogelsang http://www.opensuse.org Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
Thank you for the warm welcomes. On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@opensuse.org> wrote:
Hey Lee,
Do you have a rough idea what you would want to do? Something along the lines of what you have done at Fuduntu or rather something else?
If you are still interested in the communication side of things I would recommend you join our news team[1] which is in desperate need of people who can and are willing to research, prepare and write content about openSUSE. And of course our development version can always use some love of a capable packager, I'm sure you can find tons of stuff to do there.
I think that, at least for now, I would really like to continue to work where I was before. Communications was enjoyable because of the writing and I really like to write. Packaging was also a lot of fun because it allowed me to get my hands dirty as well as learn more about things (since they will break at some point and fixing it can be fun). Factory was one thing that was recommended to me. I was told to either contact this list or the opensuse-factory list to get started since the person that referred me knew of my previous work. Thank you very much for the steps and I look forward to contributing and working with openSUSE! Lee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Lee Ward <leeward1982@gmail.com> 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.
Welcome to the community. For us volunteers / contributors openSUSE is a do-apoly. Those that do decide what they work on. I like working on a certain class of security tools, so I package those for the distro. I also help out in the users mailing lists answering questions (as well as asking). On the more technical openSUSE lists I find myself asking a lot more than I answer. My favorite source of searching through list archives is: http://opensuse.markmail.org/ Not all opensuse lists are archived there, but the major ones are.going back to the beginning of 2013. One of openSUSE's major strengths is the way the distribution is packaged / built. The tool for that is OBS. It is world-readable, but you need appropriate authority to work on various parts. As a volunteer packager I have been given authority over the packages I maintain. One sure way to get authority over a package to package something not yet in OBS. That's a lot of what I have done over the years. http://build.opensuse.org is the public instance of OBS and where the actual release is made. The code is opensource, so lots of people run private instances. (ie. Dell and Intel both use a private instance to build linux packages/drivers). During the Nov 2013 - June 2014 OBS got a major reshuffling as to how "factory" is built. Factory has been similar to Fedora's rawhide for the last decade or two. With the new process, there is an automated QA process between the devel projects and factory. That QA process involves rings of automated integration testing. The core factory team seem very happy with how the new functionality is working. http://markmail.org/message/5hvxh4q2baiz7ldw Based on that work, factory is now much more like a rolling release that can be used by semi-adventurous souls. In the past it was mainly used on test machines because you never really knew when it would break in a major fashion. I suspect the 13.2 release planned for Nov 2014 will need some good write-ups discussing the new development model and explaining the new positioning of factory. (I'm not on the news team, so I don't know how well they have that need covered.) Good luck and have fun, Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 18:16 +0200, Richard Brown wrote:
Hi Lee, nice to meet you!
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
And I forgot to mention, lots of us can be found on IRC (irc.freenode.org) in various #opensuse* channels - most of them with names/purposes matching their mailinglist equivalent (eg. #opensuse-project, #opensuse-factory, #opensuse-gnome) Hope this helps! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
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 <RBrownCCB@opensuse.org> wrote:
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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Richard Brown