🚀 Big news from Serpent OS: State of the Project 2025

[ikeycode]

• Alpha2 coming soon with improved installer
• Seeking community support & key contributors
• Technical roadmap revealed: versioned repos, immutable OS features & more

https://serpentos.com/blog/2025/02/06/hello-2025/

[rav101]

How do people go about nominating themselves in terms of community support?

Roles like web development or community engagement? Should people comment here in the discussions, join Matrix channels?

[ikeycode]

Present yourself, front and center. XD here will do

[Midvardon]

Greetings. I'm willing to help with the following: Community management: Someone to manage social media, forums, and other community platforms.
Documentation: Once we pivot to Astro + Starship, we’ll need to focus on adding high quality documentation. My LinkedIn profile url:(https://www.linkedin.com/in/donavon-u-8a140577/)

[Tsu-gu]

Hi, my biggest quality is being terminally online. Someone replies to me on reddit and I will click on the notification almost instantly.
I have the time to manage community forums, discord servers, matrix groups or subreddits. I would gladly help with moderating any of those.

However I'm not a great sysadmin so I probably couldn't set up a discourse instance or something. I'm active in the subreddits of distros I like, and help people when I know I can answer. Currently that's r/ubuntu.

Edit: I should also mention that my timezone is UTC+1

[gragorther]

Hello, I would love to help with the web development tasks, such as transitioning to Astro. You can check out my personal website to learn more about me (some links to platoforms like gitlab or github are provided) at blog.gregtech.eu. I'm okay at web development, I have worked with Svelte for almost a year now. I'm also pretty good at system administration and I know my way around Linux systems, hence why I host a whole suite of services (Matrix, GitLab, Vaultwarden...), all of them hosted in Docker, which is a pretty useful skill to have. My time zone is UTC+1.

[F0rtatech]

:3

[ikeycode]

Thank you all for volunteering. I'll get some ducks in a row and we'll go from there. :)

[Midvardon]

Thank you so much for the update. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Warm regards.

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[Solidwire99]

If you want to see robust support show that this distro is being developed around the software and isn't a political launch pad for any type of politics. Show it's not going to ban people over not elevating a political agenda.
I, and many, many others want to know we aren't going to be hated & banned for believing the project should be dedicated to the software & not politics.

[rav101]

Ive been in the matrix group for about a year and a half and politics is rarely a talking point. Never been a point of contention from share I've seen 🤷🏻‍♂️

[gragorther]

If you want to see robust support show that this distro is being developed around the software and isn't a political launch pad for any type of politics. Show it's not going to ban people over not elevating a political agenda. I, and many, many others want to know we aren't going to be hated & banned for believing the project should be dedicated to the software & not politics.

@ikeycode hasn't even said anything political at all, just developing SerpentOS

[ikeycode]

Since when I have been associated with politics? I don't need to demonstrate anything, I've been working on this nearly 5 years already. If it's a free speech haven folks want, they won't find that either, it goes both ways. Focus is on building tools to build a better distro.

[HaleyACS]

@Solidwire99 I think your comments are not welcome here. Go troll somewhere else please.
The guys working on SerpentOS are doing a tremendous job. So let them concentrate on what they love doing: discussing technical aspects/issues and coding :)