Self-Introduction: Johnny (for FreeIPA Traditional Chinese translation)

Name: Johnny Lin (Lost)

Location: Taipei, Taiwan
  

Login: lostmypillow


Language: Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)


Profession or student status: Junior Developer at a small software company (agency), before that worked for 2 years as part time IT
 

About You:

Hi, I’m Johnny. I also go by Lost or LostMyPillow in most of cyberspace.

I've self taught programming and IT since middle school, I’ve used Fedora sporadically during my distro-hopping days.

I have set up a FreeIPA instance on Fedora Server for my former employer, but unfortunately it didn’t come with Traditional Chinese as an interface language (Simplified Chinese doesn’t make it better at all).

Seeing as I’ve also immersed myself in the English language longer than I have been distro hopping, and graduated from Department of English in National Taipei University of Technology, I thought I contribute in FreeIPA’s Traditional Chinese translation efforts, which is on 0% progress, last I checked.
 

You and the Fedora Project:

In the future I’d also like to contribute to Fedora Workstation, or more likely Fedora Server, but seeing as I do not have any background in the lower level programming required, it’s still just a dream of mine. I do know Python, TS, Java, but I do know that’s not what Linux programming requires, so I’ll do translations for now.


   GPG KEYID and fingerprint:

gpg --fingerprint 81E6EC0E913FD523 pub ed25519 2026-04-26 [SC] [expires: 2029-04-26] 6159 1D57 36B0 6901 ACE6 711A 81E6 EC0E 913F D523 uid [ultimate] Johnny (lostmypillow) <lostmypillow@icloud.com> sub cv25519 2026-04-26 [E] [expires: 2029-04-26] B672 9FF1 233C 8FC0 9CAB DEC7 2317 134E D77B 776C

Full disclosure:

I’m a bit confused about the whole process detailed here: L10N/Guide - Fedora Project Wiki

• I have a FAS account, agreement signed, SSH, GPG keys added.

• I have subscribed to the Main L10N mailing list

• I have tried to subscribe to the zh_tw L10N mailing list here trans-zh_tw (at) lists.fedoraproject.org, but pending approval

• I have NOT received any confirmation email from either of those lists, despite the guide stating there’d be one.

• I have NOT joined the L10n Fedora group, as I don’t know how to join, it just shows the list of sponsors and members: 🔗

• I have NOT written a personal page at User:Username, as the guide states I need to be in the L10N Fedora group

• I’m at the step where I post a self introduction to the trans mailing list, but I have NOT sent one to the local mailing list as it’s pending approval

• On Matrix I don’t see an l10n group, but I attribute it to me being very unfamiliar with Matrix, and I’m still figuring out how to access the group

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