User:Shaydi

Shahida America

Hello, I'm Shahida. Location:Cape Town, South Africa (GMT+2) I'm currently studying computer science and I enjoy choc-chip cookies.

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• FAS-Name: shaydi
• Email: mailto:shaydi@fedoraproject.org
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Activities within Fedora

• I recently started an open learning initiative in my community to introduce people to free and open online courses. I noticed many members had pirated software installed on their devices so I feel the next step for me would be to introduce them to free and open source software. I might not be able to put a stop to piracy but atleast providing an alternative is what I believe to be a great start. At the root of that tree is the operating system and I've chosen Fedora. I've heard that Fedora Ambassadors are assigned a mentor and that would be quite helpful to me in knowing how to go about informing the public about Fedora as well distributing it in my community.
• I have noticed that the Afrikaans translation is quite neglected so I would love to work on translating Fedora into Afrikaans.

Also, there are two teams listed on Transifex: af and af_ZA. I don't understand why a differentiation is needed between Afrikaans and South African Afrikaans when it's only spoken in South Africa, af should be sufficient. I will need to find out who to contact regarding this issue so I'm just posting this here as a reminder to myself.