On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@suse.com> wrote:
On 06/14/2015 06:01 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2015-06-14 23:52, PatrickD Garvey wrote:
Is there a curation of these Announcements/Request for help somewhere? I'm new here and I'd hate to think I need to read the complete openSUSE-project mailing list archive before I knew what was actively occurring.
Perhaps:
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Contributing https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:How_to_participate
Sometimes there are "Calls for help" on the -project list when something specific needs doing. For example towards the end of this year yo will see a "call for help" to form the election committee for the next openSUSE Board election. Then there are announcements on - -factor and/or -packaging if maintainers decide to drop certain packages, i.e these are packages that might need a maintainer going forward.
I would think there is a benefit to cross-post those "Calls for help" and announcements on the -announce list. That is, I don't have time to monitor all the lists and the forums and the ... If your looking for help find the place everyone has agreed to watch for such requests.
However, it also very much depends on what your interests are. There is need to build a mentor program. wiki needs general tidying up, marketing is in desperate need, event organization, ..... I could go on for a while. Thus, if you are interested in helping out and know where within the project you want to contribute, but have issues finding the right people let me know off list and I will be more than happy to point you in the "right" direction ;)
Thank you, that is the most supportive response I've seen since I decided to look at this distribution after attending the mini-summit at SCaLE 13x last February. The Open Build System sounded like someone finally was applying computer automation to the challenge of operating system distribution. And OpenQA seems a logical extension. I intend to religiously read -project seeking understanding about how the project actually gets done. The discussions here have been slowly informative. I also subscribe to -doc which has few postings. I follow that in hopes of understanding the purpose and use of ActiveDoc. I'm not informed enough to ask intelligent questions about that, yet. I intend to see what the -doc archive can tell me. Ultimately, I'd like to build by own Software Defined Radio for Amateur Radio contacts around the world. For that I feel a need for a computer and operating system I can understand deeply. I don't have the time to create my own operating system for that purpose, but FLOSS seems like it solves that part of the problem.
Later, Robert
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