Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 20:42:38 +0000 From: Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley@hotmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cert Message-ID: <CY4PR19MB0104E969DF526271C147614AF98C0@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <8696720e-3c03-8ffa-6b2c-4c4c98772a49@FreeBSD.org> References: <CY4PR19MB165585A7D4670DC49DB5523AF9B10@CY4PR19MB1655.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <626d9ab4-b00b-6112-8697-ea972eceb5b2@heuristicsystems.com.au> <CY4PR19MB0104A96DFD1E7341E18A65D4F98C0@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com>, <8696720e-3c03-8ffa-6b2c-4c4c98772a49@FreeBSD.org>
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Ixsystems is a company based in California and Tennessee who sell a range of hardware, including various storage solutions based on FreeBSD. The founders of the company included a number of FreeBSD developers, and they have been big supporters of the project over the years. The did at one time produce PC-BSD, a desktop-oriented distribution of FreeBSD, but unfortunately commercial pressures have lead to their ceasing development on that. > but I'm first searching for official freebsd mentor 'Mentor' in the FreeBSD project has a formal meaning as 'the person (or people) designated to guide new committers.' It's one of those milestones you get to once your FreeBSD career is already quite well advanced. You don't tend to get nominated as a new committer until you've both a decent track record of patches or other code contributions, and established yourself as a member of the community by participating in on-line activities (basically showing that you can collaborate well with other committers) and preferably also by coming to some BSD conferences or other real-life events, although that is pretty much out of the question right now given the current pandemic. As to how to get started in FreeBSD work? Well, what areas interest you? What skill sets do you have that could be applied to the project? The project has pretty much always been chronically short of manpower, so volunteers in any areas are always most welcome. Cheers, Matthew Brandon: I don't have any skills to contribute yet but want to know what ro= ute to take for starting an education so I can get involved. I've been read= ing books and getting hands dirty but it doesn't quite do the trick. I was = thinking so far as to get the BSD Certification and then maybe take some en= try programming courses. I'm interested in computer networking and porting = software but that seems a long ways away depending on what lies on the path= to these accomplishments and what they would have to do with FreeBSd. What= are your guys suggestions for skills to learn that have a place in the fre= ebsd community. Right now I'm useless.once this email thread is over I will= switch to k9. Sent from Outlook Mobile<https://aka.ms/blhgte>; ________________________________ From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.= org> on behalf of Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2020, 5:42 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cert On 30/05/2020 07:51, Brandon helsley wrote: > what is ixsystems? Ixsystems is a company based in California and Tennessee who sell a range of hardware, including various storage solutions based on FreeBSD. The founders of the company included a number of FreeBSD developers, and they have been big supporters of the project over the years. The did at one time produce PC-BSD, a desktop-oriented distribution of FreeBSD, but unfortunately commercial pressures have lead to their ceasing development on that. > but I'm first searching for official freebsd mentor 'Mentor' in the FreeBSD project has a formal meaning as 'the person (or people) designated to guide new committers.' It's one of those milestones you get to once your FreeBSD career is already quite well advanced. You don't tend to get nominated as a new committer until you've both a decent track record of patches or other code contributions, and established yourself as a member of the community by participating in on-line activities (basically showing that you can collaborate well with other committers) and preferably also by coming to some BSD conferences or other real-life events, although that is pretty much out of the question right now given the current pandemic. As to how to get started in FreeBSD work? Well, what areas interest you? What skill sets do you have that could be applied to the project? The project has pretty much always been chronically short of manpower, so volunteers in any areas are always most welcome. Cheers, Matthew
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