FreeBSD Cert

[Brandon Helsley]

Before you all go will you help me make sure I am bottom posting correctly with k9mail first and answer my question about the intended path of education to at least get started maintaining ports. I'm a quick learner and would maintain a lot of ports.

On May 30, 2020 2:42:38 PM MDT, Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley at hotmail.com> wrote:
>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 route to take for starting an education so I can get involved.
>I've been reading 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 entry 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 freebsd 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 at freebsd.org
><owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> on behalf of Matthew Seaman
><matthew at FreeBSD.org>
>Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2020, 5:42 AM
>To: freebsd-questions at 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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