Re: New outreachy participant introduction

[Julien Lepiller]

Hi Nardos, nice to meet you! Sorry I couldn't answer sooner. My server was having a bit of troubles and I only received your mail now. It should be fine from now on.

I think Gábor already answered your questions nicely, and I have nothing to add. I'd like to encourage you to join our irc at #guix on freenode to meet everyone. If you have any question regarding the process of packaging or about the proposed internships, do not hesitate to ask them here or on IRC. Even if when mentors are not available, others may have answers for you ;)

Thank you,
Julien

Le 3 octobre 2019 18:11:58 GMT+02:00, "Asfaw, Nardos" <address@hidden> a écrit :

Hello Guix!

My name is Nardos, and I am an Outreachy participant from Indiana University, Bloomington. I am a first time open source contributor hopeful. I am excite to be here, but I will admit I am also a little nervous. I welcome feedback as I am here to learn from all of you. I can be reached at address@hidden or www.nardos.dev 

I also have a few questions:

1. I am opting to run Guix in a virtual machine on a kali linux.  I have found this resource: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Running-Guix-in-a-VM.html#Running-Guix-in-a-VM. Given your experience, would this cause a problem down the line? Any recommendation on running Guix in a virtual machine vs on my PC?

2. Upon making contributions, where is it posted? and how do I see feedbacks? I have seen lists of open projects and discussion treads such as this (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/22138)  on the Guix patch tracker. Are these the issues we currently working on? 

3. Any beginner tips? and a good place to start? 

I look forward to working with you all. 

Thanks,

Nardos