[Fedora-join] looking for a good fit supporting Fedora.

[William]

Good afternoon,

I am wanting to contribute to the Fedora community (beyond getting help
from the Fedora user's list). I'm looking for a good fit to my
interests, experience, and training. I'm hoping this list can help.
I've looked at “http://whatcanidoforfedora.org/” and
“https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join”; they do not help enough.

I'm wanting to do algorithm design and development (coding). I'd
seriously want to avoid maintenance and support. I'd like to work with
meteorology, math, and physical science / engineering. I also like
rather low-level work like parsing, encoding and decoding, and working
at the bit and byte level. I also do well with control logic.

I have over 25 years working with software. My primary languages and
“level” are:
* C++ (high intermediate, not quite advanced);
* C (intermediate);
* FORTRAN-77 (high intermediate).
I worked 6+ years for NASA contractors on aerospace applications, and
18+ years for NOAA (mostly the National Weather Service) contractors on
meteorology applications. I have good experience with decoders (for
example “BUFR”) and self-mapping file types (for example netCDF and
BUFR). I do not have significant GUI experience, and would prefer to
avoid such work.

I have B.S. degrees in Computer Science, Math, and Physics, all in 1979.
I've also completed all courses needed for an M.S. degree in
Atmospheric Science (though I did not complete the degree).

So what opportunities does Fedora have that are a good fit for me?

thanks,
Bill.
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I am wanting to contribute to the Fedora community (beyond getting help
from the Fedora user's list). I'm looking for a good fit to my interests,
experience, and training. I'm hoping this list can help. I've looked at “
http://whatcanidoforfedora.org/” and “https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join”;
they do not help enough.

I'm wanting to do algorithm design and development (coding). I'd seriously
want to avoid maintenance and support. I'd like to work with meteorology,
math, and physical science / engineering. I also like rather low-level
work like parsing, encoding and decoding, and working at the bit and byte
level. I also do well with control logic.

I have over 25 years working with software. My primary languages and
“level” are:
* C++ (high intermediate, not quite advanced);
* C (intermediate);
* FORTRAN-77 (high intermediate).
I worked 6+ years for NASA contractors on aerospace applications, and 18+
years for NOAA (mostly the National Weather Service) contractors on
meteorology applications. I have good experience with decoders (for
example “BUFR”) and self-mapping file types (for example netCDF and BUFR).
I do not have significant GUI experience, and would prefer to avoid such
work.

I have B.S. degrees in Computer Science, Math, and Physics, all in 1979.
I've also completed all courses needed for an M.S. degree in Atmospheric
Science (though I did not complete the degree).

So what opportunities does Fedora have that are a good fit for me?

thanks,
Bill.
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[Matthew Miller]

Post by William
I'm wanting to do algorithm design and development (coding). I'd
seriously want to avoid maintenance and support. I'd like to work
with meteorology, math, and physical science / engineering. I also
like rather low-level work like parsing, encoding and decoding, and
working at the bit and byte level. I also do well with control
logic.

So, in Fedora itself, we don't do a whole lot of that kind of thing.
Our development work is generally around infrastructure applications
(the tools at https://apps.fedoraproject.org/), and those tend to be
written in higher-level languages than you're familiar with -- but if
you're interested in building those skills, that's probably the place
to jump in.

Otherwise, you may actually be looking at working on some upstream
piece of software which is included in Fedora, but isn't _developed_
here.

--
Matthew Miller
<***@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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[William Mattison]

I hadn't heard anything. I just discovered why: I did not set up the fedora-join subscription to send me anything. I fixed it.

I thank you for your comments.

Bill.
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