Hello all,I was going through the wiki for joining the marketing group, and realized that I never formally introduced myself to the list, although I've been posting intermittently for Fedora Magazine / other misc. things. So I figured better late than never.
My name is Justin W. Flory and I am currently living in Rochester, NY as a first-year student at the Rochester Institute of Technology (majoring in Networking and Systems Administration). My FAS username / IRC nick / general online handle is jflory7.
I've been lurking in the channels and mailing lists since early 2014 or so, but after attending this year's Flock in Rochester, I've been trying to become more active (it was really easy after meeting all of the awesome people at this year's Flock!) and contribute in any way that I can to the Fedora Project. So far, I've found myself involved with marketing activities the most of all the different areas of Fedora, so I feel like this is the best group for me to join.
This is my second FOSS project that I am looking at contributing towards. My first project that I spend a good amount of time with is with the SpigotMC project, which is a Java-based Minecraft server software. I do not assist with the development, but I am a community moderator and have a great deal of experience with interacting with the community over there. Indirectly because of Spigot, that's actually I stumbled into using Fedora close to two years ago.
This is my first marketing project that I've wanted to participate with, and I do not have a formal background in marketing, but it is an area that interests me greatly as I think it's one of the most important aspects of any project, especially in open-source.
The skills that I hope to be able to utilize in the Fedora Marketing group are:
- Content Creation (Fedora Magazine, Fedora Planet, etc.)- University Outreach Initiative (and assisting with any projects / planning for that initiative if possible) - I'm also very open to learning new things and acquiring new skills, particularly in terms of marketing in an open-source project
When I am not working on Fedora, I am a student at RIT (participating in the university Linux Users Group, the local FOSS community, and more) as well as running my own Minecraft server and working on other projects for Spigot (my current task with Spigot is working on migrating our wiki to a new platform).
A few goals that I have for the Fedora Project are mostly concerned with the University Outreach Initiative - when I sat in on most of the talks at Flock about this, they greatly interested me and I wanted to help spread the awesomeness of free and open-source software and the culture it represents with other students, and to help make it a more prevalent concept in education. I'm very interested in working with someone to organize events not only at RIT, but possibly at other schools in the area.
On that note, I haven't been able to find any official planning area for work being done on this Initiative, so I was also curious to where planning or discussion is mostly happening for this initiative.
I am very happy to be a part of this awesome project and the community that surrounds it. I'm tired of sitting around in the sidelines and I want to have an active role with helping Fedora to the best of my abilities. I'm looking forward to working with this group in the near and long-term future!
Thanks for your time and patience for reading this long email. -- Cheers, ------------ Justin W. Flory jflory7@xxxxxxxxx
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