Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (172 mails)

[Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx>]

Hi Ricardo,

first of all, thanks for your reply and for your approach too.

I think you should retry next year, with a detailed proposal. In the
meanwhile, you can start to know people in the openSUSE community and
the developers at Novell that work on openSUSE. It doesn't hurt for sure
to you and to them, if you are intentioned to take part to the GSOC
initiative in the future. Plus your idea were actually appreciated by
two of them already!

Another little tip: a polite email to poke someone is not against the
netiquette, and actually shows you are interested. The guys at
openSUSE/Novell are very busy, so a direct contact is much more
effective than the ML in my opinion. If you need "lessons on how to poke
people", feel free to ask to suseROCKs. He is the expert! :-)

Best wishes, and stay around :-)


Il giorno lun, 13/04/2009 alle 21.37 -0400, Ricardo Cornet ha scritto:

> No, I did not contact them. As I said in the previous mail, I
> misundersttod of Cornelius Schum more of as support/encouragement than
> actual mentorship interest. And Michael Loffler mail was also a miss for
> me. I once again thought that the people interested on mentoring would
> be on the mailing list and if interested would contact me and telling me
> explicitly so.
>
> I did not want to be overly aggressive on contacting every single
> person. That included PM people on irc when they were available.
>
> Later thanks to suseRocks on freenode I got Coly Li mail and the
> assurance that is was ok to contact people directly. So at least I was
> able to talk a little with someone about a proposal, the extend of
> details, etc.
>
> So I hope this truly serves anyone looking on the mailing list archives
> on the future.
>
> Also the mailing list faq give me a feeling of "beware of what you do"
> attitude regarding nettiquete. :-)
>
> Well I know better for the future now.
>
> Ricardo Cornet

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