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On 05/01/2016 07:57 AM, José Fournier wrote: |
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> Hi everybody, |
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> I have been a bit far from Gentoo for a rather long time now. I joined |
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> Gentoo in 2013 and I used to be a translator for the French language. At |
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> this time, I had to become a developer in order to be able to submit my |
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> work in the previous documentation system – but in reality I am not a |
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> developer at all. Nowadays, with the new wiki – which I can see grow |
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> and improve day after day – it is no longer necessary for people like me |
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> become a developer. |
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> At the beginning I could get a friendly and patient help from Sven |
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> Vermeulen who introduced me and was my mentor for a while. I am very |
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> grateful to him because it is not something obvious for someone who is |
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> not a computer scientist to enter a world like the Gentoo Community and |
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> Sven contributed a lot to make me feel at home. |
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> Recently, I decided to join the Fedora community to help as a translator |
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> again. It a very different distribution and community but my previous |
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> experience at Gentoo is very valuable. Arriving in this new home, I told |
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> them all the good I think of the Gentoo distribution and of its people. |
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> If there is one distribution which made me progress substantially in my |
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> understanding of the Linux system, it is Gentoo, with no doubt. |
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> Before leaving your community, I want to wish you all the best and thank |
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> you very much for your constant effort to make free and open source |
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> software available to everyone. |
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> With kind regards |
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> José |
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I never spoke with you, but totally agree that Gentoo's a great place to |
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learn more about GNU/Linux as a whole. I'm sure many French users |
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appreciated your work on the documentation, and I'm sure the people at |
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Fedora will feel the same. Good luck out there! |
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