step 5 - send a self-introduction email

[Toshio Kuratomi]

mapleoin at lavabit.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been playing around with Linux for 3-4 years and have now decided to
> be part of a team of contributors. So, I've been playing with the joining
> fedora-websites process all day and I finally got to the introductory
> step.
> 
> I've already created a wiki account: IonuțArțăriși and
> a FAS one: mapleoin.
> 
> I'm primarily interested in developing my web programming skills. I've had
> experience as a web developer(mainly as a hobby, but have also developed
> two websites using django and rails). I think my HTML\CSS skills are good
> and my python/ruby skills are those of a begginer. I'd really love to help
> with server side programming where I can, but I also think I'll need some
> guidance. A mentor would be nice, but I guess the IRC channel will do just
> fine otherwise :).
> I'm a bit tired of arranging elements with CSS, so that wouldn't be very
> attractive for me and I'm also not very happy doing the webdesign job.
> 
> I hope that's ok for starters.
> 
> Now, when/how do I begin? Where do I go next? (I have to say I loved the
> well-documented steps until now).
> 
> 
Hi mapleoin!

I see that you talked to ricky already on IRC.  He's one of our main 
developers so it's definitely good that you connected.  Luke Macken 
(lmacken), Matt Domsch (mdomsch), Yaakov Nemoy (loupgaroublond), John 
Palmieri (J5), and I (abadger1999) are some of the other developers. 
We're all available on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-admin and on the 
fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list.

We'd be happy to have you join us!  (More than happy, ecstatic!)  If you 
want to stay away from the web design portion and work more on the 
server-side programming aspect, that's fine, a lot of our work starts 
off with a basic, functional interface and when it gets to be enough of 
an eyesore, we'll get someone to help redesign the look and feel.

I have a number of tasks that you can jump into with greater and lesser 
degrees of independence.  We'll be around to help on IRC whether you 
take on one of the independent tasks, or one that's part of another project.

High value, independent project:
* Write a new voting application in TurboGears.  Our present voting 
application is just a cgi script that needs to be updated for every 
election.  We'd like to be able to add new elections via the web, have a 
history view of past elections, and other enhancements.  Just getting 
the basics into a TurboGears application would let us get rid of an 
aging code-base (fedora-accounts) that we don't want to support anymore.

Part of a larger project:
* I have a large number of outstanding features against the pkgdb that 
I'd like to see added. These range from redesigning the JSON API to 
adding UI to jump directly to packages.  This could give you some ideas: 
https://fedorahosted.org/packagedb/report/3

-Toshio

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