[Ubuntu Oregon] New Guy

[Walter Lapchynski]

Wow, cool, you're really new! Have you used Linux at all before? If
not, welcome to the wonderful world of open source software!!!

Most people tend to think of development when it comes to contributing
to open source software. Several of us here have done some sort of
development or another and could walk you through the process.

However, if you just want to get your foot in the door and get a feel
for the community, and how things are done (a good precusor to
development) there's plenty of other things that need to be done:
graphics, documentation, communication, marketing, testing, bug
triage, leadership, etc. If you want help stepping through these
things, don't hesitate to ask!

If you are interested solely in development, you should certainly take
a look at the Ubuntu SDK which is intended for mobile devices but
given our goal of convergence, is also applicable to the Ubuntu
desktop. It's really easy to start building apps with it.

You also may notice mentions of things like Lubuntu (the team I mainly
contribute to) and Kubuntu (Scarlett's main team). There are different
"flavors" of Ubuntu where major components of the desktop are
essentially replaced. You might look into trying them, too. They're
still Ubuntu, but different takes on it if you will.

Any other questions, problems, concerns?

Feel free to come join us on IRC at #ubuntu-us-or on Freenode!

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Billy Brawner <billybrawner at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using Ubuntu for maybe a week now, version 14.10. I haven't yet
> made any contributions because I'm still deciding on where I'd like to get
> involved. App development has caught my eye, as well as web apps and core
> development but I'm still relatively new to it all so I've been researching
> it all before I jump into one specific part of it all. i am familiar with
> GitHub though and I'm confident using the command line.
>
> I don't typically get out of Bend unless I have a reason to (I think the
> LoCo events would be sufficient reason though.) So I shouldn't have any
> problems getting over the mountains. I've done the drive plenty of times.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 04/08/2015 02:20 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
>>
>> Wow, exciting stuff! How long you been using Ubuntu? What version are
>> you using? Have you made any contributions to Ubuntu and/or open
>> source at present?
>>
>> Lastly, since most of us are in the valley, you get out of Bend much?
>>
>> p.s. have fun in Mexico!
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Scarlett Clark <sgclark at kubuntu.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/08/2015 11:20 AM, Billy Brawner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi everyone! I'm new to the Ubuntu Oregon LoCo group, so I'm writing now
>>>> to introduce myself. My name's Billy, I'm 20 years old. I graduated from
>>>> Bend Senior High school about 2 years ago and I plan on studying for a
>>>> Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science at  the OSU Cascades campus in
>>>> Bend. I currently live in Mexico but this year in July I'll be moving
>>>> back
>>>> to Bend so that I can begin studying. When I'm not sitting in front of
>>>> my
>>>> computer screen, I enjoy working out, and in Bend I'll go back to my old
>>>> job
>>>> of being a Personal Trainer. Right now I'm studying HTML, CSS,
>>>> JavaScript,
>>>> and Python. I got started with Ubuntu because I saw that a lot of Web
>>>> Development jobs for Python requested that applicants be comfortable
>>>> using
>>>> it and I fell in love with the concept of open source software so I
>>>> decided
>>>> that I wanted to contribute. I'm still not sure exactly where I'll fit
>>>> in
>>>> but I'm working on that so I'm sure I'll figure it out sooner or later.
>>>> Anyways, I look forward to getting to know you all and working with you
>>>> to
>>>> improve Ubuntu! Thank you for accepting me to the group!
>>>>
>>>> Billy
>>>>
>>> Welcome! lots to do, easy to find a place of comfort to contribute :)
>>> Scarlett
>>>
>>>
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