Hi Zonker, As I stated before, the localization/translation of openSUSE is spread over at least 3 parts (the wiki, the distro, and the docs) with the 2 first getting attention and the last one is almost forgotten (I only see "en" and "de" which are made by Novell/openSUSE employees) Maybe it could be made as the KDE translation team do with their docs which uses the same .docbook structure. Besides that, the manuals, which are installed by default, are hidden in the distro (the help icon in the desktop lead us to help.o.o) regards, Luiz Fernando Ranghetti 2008/9/23 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier :

Hi all,

We discussed improving the How to Participate page during the IRC meeting today. I just wanted to throw this out to the list as a discussion starter.

The page I'm referring to is here: http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_Participate

The page is a good start, but we need to make it more friendly, and easier to get information from more quickly.

Also -- I see that the page is only available in five languages -- this is something else we need to work on, as we definitely want to have the page text available in more languages.

Some of the ideas discussed during the meeting:

* Videos * Storyboards * Improving the text on the page

Other thoughts?

Best,

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Hi Bryen, Now you got me on surprise! I'm a suse user for some years now and this is the first time I hear about the Helping Hands Project. So maybe the problems is just about showing the user the right direction. I searched the openSuse site and even google to direct me to the Helping Hands site but no lucky. I just found websites about the gnome section of Helping Hands (http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/HowTos/Helping_Hands_Topics). I would love to volunteer myself to help out the new comers as I would love to find help as I want to help on development. I'm a Software Architect willing to put my knowledge to some use and also learn some new tricks here on the suse project. Right now I help some friends getting started with Linux and opensuse is the distro I always suggest them. Best, Gabriel Em Tuesday 23 September 2008 18:47:19 Bryen escreveu:

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 17:46 -0300, Gabriel Franco wrote:

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Hi all,

I think that one feature we are missing here is that usually people fell unsecure to start sharing ideas after reading some pages with general directions on how to participate. One thing I saw on KDE webpage and I tough it would be good was the mentor program, where they have some volunteers responsible on initianting the new comers. Maybe openSuSE should try something like this. Get 1 mentor for each main area (translation, developement, testing...) and maybe people will feel more confortable if they have someone to show them around.

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Gabriel

Sorry I couldn't make it to today's meeting.

Gabriel, we actually do have that. It's called the openSUSE Helping Hands project and was launched early this summer. We've been having good success and are gearing up to take it to the next level and have been hoping to get some KDE folks to participate. I take it you'd like to volunteer? :-)

Bryen

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Gabriel Franco wrote:

Hi all,

I think that one feature we are missing here is that usually people fell unsecure to start sharing ideas after reading some pages with general directions on how to participate. One thing I saw on KDE webpage and I tough it would be good was the mentor program, where they have some volunteers responsible on initianting the new comers. Maybe openSuSE should try something like this. Get 1 mentor for each main area (translation, developement, testing...) and maybe people will feel more confortable if they have someone to show them around.

Totally agreed. We sorely need a mentor program for new contributors. @Martin: maybe this should be part of the "ambassador" type program? No reason we couldn't have online ambassadors, as opposed to regional. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager http://zonker.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org