Hey Helen, Thanks for this, never knew it existed, same goes for the Marketing One. Do you think we should keep on updating wiki of all the pirate pad links we have. Regards Manu On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:44 AM, DuBois, Scott L. wrote:

I think it's the start to something really great. I don't know how others feel about it, but it could be interesting to add to the "How to Participate" page as something of a "New Contributors Starter Guide". http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:How_to_participate

As a semi-new user still myself, when I have questions I have a person or two (or three) I can send an email to or find on IRC that help me with those questions and guide me along; That is very helpful. I would like to help by documenting all of this experience similar to what you did and then I can share it with you and combine the information to make a nice little guide newbies can use to get started and subside some of the "cold feet" syndrome many encounter that prevent them from becoming active contributors. Among the many things I like to (or would like to) do with the project is help recruit and guide more new contributors to the project.

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Helen South wrote:

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Ages ago we wrote this article on how to participate (especially for non-coders). It's not finished yet. I'd been thinking of developing each section into a full length short article for a magazine series but never had the time to do anything with it.

Given the current discussion on new user participation, I wondered if it was worth doing something with. Open to ideas.

find it here: http://piratepad.net/jNxlTtU8EB

(also, do you remember the long OBS article we wrote and translated a while ago, did that ever find a home? It would be a shame for it to just disappear.)

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Hey Helen, I would like to do it. I had a couple of ideas too. I will dump them there itself. And I would this to the wiki. It seems to me that the wiki is a better place for such an article than anywhere else. News articles are usually read and forgotten or how about both. But we still need yours or Jos's final words since you are too good at article writing. Also, I have gone through the article, is there anything you would like to add, If you have pointers please let me know so that I can think of something and write that too. Thanks Manu On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Helen South wrote:

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Do you think we should keep on updating wiki of all the pirate pad links we have.

Regards Manu

I think it was agreed that Piratepad for various reasons is less than ideal - I just used it because it's convenient. Jos took care of the OBS article a while back, finalized it as office document, and it was translated into several languages by contributors and sent to someone in SUSE I think. I don't have any other in-progress pieces other than this current contribution one.

I just was using Pirate Pad for myself as it is a convenient place to work if I want to easily share with someone.

I'll try to help finish it off if I can but would like to pass it on to someone else if possible due to some personal situation. I don't really mind how/where/if it's used. Just note that the comments from various translators are verbatim from emails and will need to be edited and integrated into a sensible context. Insights from people who are hands-on involved in areas are always good I think. Photographs from recent events would be suitable accompaniments.

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I would like to read it... What's the link ?? I don't remember... It was long time ago!! ;)

The original text is here - http://piratepad.net/POwdpAKsyH it's probably getting a little bit out-of-date in places now. -- IRC: helen_au helen.south@opensuse.org helensouth.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Victor hck wrote:

Thnx...

And here the Spanish translation!! - http://piratepad.net/9PgxpcN27v

That's truly awesome. It would be nice to have the translators' names with it too, they should be credited for their work. Jos sent it to someone in the SUSE offices I think.... -- IRC: helen_au helen.south@opensuse.org helensouth.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org