User:Nattes/Newbie Tour

basically telling about my experience in Joining Fedora as a non coding newbie

• SIG join interest group https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-join/

SIG join group on telegram is a good place to start <3

How to contribute

I have been told I can translate docs but I have no clue what and where. If you see this maybe you can suggest ways in which a total coding noob can be included in such a project.

• https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/
• https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-docs/contributing/prerequisites/

• installation guide : https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f34/install-guide/

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f34/install-guide/ => https://pagure.io/fedora-diversity/issues?status=Open&tags=good+first+issue

Fedora accounts (FAS)

This is the thing that pops up when you try to connect to any Fedora page (pagure, wiki, badge, webtranslate, Hyper kitty, community blog on wordpress). so better keep your password safe, cos you are going to need it often! To me as a wikimedian this seems very strange (as we have centralized accounts).

Also the old page sometimes pops up but it has a bif red banner so you cannot miss it (maybe some sort of query to chage the old links could be useful?)

Pagure

This is the place where pull requests are made within the fedora ecosystem. Complex thing for a newvie is to understand why thre is a duplication on github

Pull requests

• Parure io : https://pagure.io/fedora-diversity/issue/203

Fedora badges

Fedora badges https://badges.fedoraproject.org/user/nattes 28.05.2021 : I suggested a new badge for translation here https://pagure.io/fedora-badges/issue/826

FWD experience oct 2020

I was invited by a fellow wikimedian to participate to this event designed to be inclusive for non binary folx, after sharing quite a few micro aggressions on the francophone wikipedia, where I founded a project called Les sans pagEs. Welcoming newbies is a challenge there because some problematic interractions might go unoticed. So basically I am always interested to learn something new and innovative to bring more inclusivity and friendliness to my community on wikipedia. This wikimedian had described how the Fedora community was really welcoming and explained the principle of the Fedora badges. I found the concept really inspiring, but would not have considered joining on that perspective, thinking I had close to nothing to offer to this "fedorable" community. TBH I felt really shy, gven that I was told the wikipedia community had a bad reputation in OSS projects. It makes my heart bleed because I know so many great people in that community, who are trying to change things from the inside to make it more friendly. Having an open wiki allowing anyone to edit can be challenging:/.

I really liked the hopin venue (that I discovered) and found the welcoming really impressive, but did not know what or where to contribute. Marie Nordin after an intro where we spoke a lot about art, poetry and fedora badges (that I found really gratifying that she would take time to welcome a newbie) proposed that I contribute to the Fedora Zine. I wrote a small poem. That was a gratifyng step, although I did feel like an imposteure, given the fact I was not yet part of that community! Registering was complex, I did not understand everything (accounts, pagure, how to download a pic for the zine). But the people were really nice and welcoming. After that I was stuck in limbo for many months, not knowing where to go or what to do and still feeling very shy.

Diversity and Inclusion

https://pagure.io/fedora-diversity/issue/187

Hyper Kitty

• Discussion https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/new

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/

Talking to discobot

Translating with web translate

• Web translate https://translate.fedoraproject.org/

Kanban

• Kanban https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/transtats/team

Community blog

• Community blog wordpress https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/wp-admin/

Joining IRC in the midst of Freenode turmoil

It took me .... too weeks. First everybody told me "get a client", then I got 3 different clients (Textual as it was indicated on the Libera chat website, Element as I gathered there would be at some point an "IRC bridge", Mibbit, and then I just went back to my old client Kiwiirc. On that "platform" I managed to create two "networks" (whatever that is!) but still could not join. At one point I managed to get registered though. Then to join IRC I did not not how to proceed and needed help. I changed by mistake my Nick to Nickname and was banned from 3 groups until one helpful fedoran told me to quit and come back again. I suggested at some places (on TG?) that this might be the moment to have a step by step tutorial for nobbs like me!

How to get a cloak https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiberaCloaks#