Self Introduction - Ramya Parimi

Hi everyone!

I was a Fedora Project contributor a few years back. I would love to join back and contribute to the team. When I first started many years back, I was new to everything tech. Coming from a biology background, Fedora helped me lay a good foundation to my tech journey. I was part of the DEI team back then.

I am currently working as a community engagement manager and I would love to come back and join the Fedora community. I want to give back and support the project in anyway I can.

I have experience working as a doc open source community manager for the GitHub docs team, and currently working at a company as a sr community manager. However, my love for open source communities is always live and that has pulled me back to this community.

I love numbers, so I would love to work on metrics and data analysis. I am also interesting in anything that has to do with creating a safe, healthy and thriving community. I also would love to learn from others in this team. One amazing thing about open source communities: there is so much knowledge and expertise out here. And everyone is always willing to help and be kind. It would be such a shame to not expand my knowledge while supporting the community. I am an avid learner and ardent explorer of knowledge.

Looking forward to being part of this amazing team!

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Welcome back to :fedora:edora @ramyaparimi

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Welcome back Ramya,
We still need help in DEI, and there is a new data group that has recently been formed.
Come and find the teams on Matrix, we can chat in dei or join room.

Regards,
Mat H

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@ramyaparimi, OMG!! :star_struck: It is so nice to see your name back in Fedora. Welcome back! :partying_face:

I’m glad your past Fedora experience helped you get a foothold in the tech world. :flexed_biceps:

Sounds like you will want to check out what is happening in the Data WG. @mwinters and @rwright are two people you should definitely find in Matrix and say hello.

Looking forward to seeing you around once again. :blush:

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Hi Ramya!

I’m a newcomer to Fedora, having only been around for about 8 months, but I’ve been pretty exclusively working on data engineering to enable community health analytics and data science. We’re trying to get to the point that we can understand basics like:

  • How many active contributors do we have? And in what capacities?
  • Which paths are most successful for newcomers?
  • Of those who try to join and fail or leave, why is that?
  • Which avenues do newcomers prefer? (Discourse? Matrix? Something else?)
  • Which software projects have gone stale or are being held together by a single heroic contributor?
  • etc etc

Come join us on Fedora Matrix and specifically the Data WG channel ! #data:fedoraproject.org

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Hello there and welcome back to Fedora :fedora:.

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Thank you @theprogram Will do! Would love to do what I can at DEI as well!
Thank you for letting me know!

Thanks so much!!

I did explore around a bit and came across DataWG. Still have to install Matrix and get back into it. Will definitely get in touch with the Data team!

Thank you for the warm welcome!

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Hi Michael! Good to meet you!

Such amazing stuff. I went through your page showing the high level diagram and the end goal. Very excited about the project.
However I have to be honest, I am not experienced data engineer at all. But would love to learn the new things. At least the basics. I do have a little experience working with Jupyter note books.

Will see you on Matrix!

Thank you so much!

Thank you very much!