[talk] possible meeting topic: FreeBSD desktop stuff with a side of DJ-BSD redux

[Tara Stella]

Dear list,

My name is Tara and I hope you'll accept a newbie geek girl from the other side of the pond in this list. 
Long story short, the reason I joined this list is because I quit all social media (including Mastodon) and I was searching for a community about FreeBSD reachable in a different way.

> As perhaps some here assembled may know, I've been working on adding
> COBOL to gcc for the last, oh, 4 years.  

Believe it or not, I'm learning COBOL now. I am not a developer, I
consider myself more of a sysadmin, but I love the idea of having a
language that spans from old MVS 3.8j to more modern systems including
FreeBSD and Linux, that is stable and don't require fancy dependencies
and, last but not least, produces small binaries. I plan to use COBOL
to replace some little personal tools.


I would love to learn more about it. At the moment I'm using GnuCOBOL
on both Linux and FreeBSD. I'm far from an expert, and this is mostly
out of curiosity, are you targeting a specific COBOL standard?

> I look forward to making FreeBSD part of that story. 

I don't know if I can be of help, but I would be happy to contribute in
the way I can (ex: I helped testing the podman port to FreeBSD with the
developer). My interests are also ARM/RISC-V, networking and enterprise
computing. 

I'm also keen to know more about FreeBSD in general, hope you won't
mind if I stay here and learn.

Cheers,
Tara