All of these are REALLY great ideas. I know I have met a number of
great people in the short time I have been involved with the project
and have learned a lot, but have still a lot I would like to learn and
learn to contribute to. As is the difficulty with many members is the
"time" factor. While there is a lot I want to do and learn I only have
so much time to do it all. Much of the learning and contribution
requires time on my end of which is being taken up by long working
hours and educational obligations. I believe that openSUSE is a great
endeavor and the overall project and it's goals are in alignment with
my own belief system of a free and open source operating system that
works in alliance with FOSS and partnering software development teams
all based from the Linux kernel.
Being as I live just 30 minutes away from Silicon Valley in the US
where can be found the headquarters of companies such as Microsoft,
Apple, Google, NVidia, HP and others, there is a lot of competition
for recruiting college students who's curriculum is IT based. My
interest lies in open source development based around the Linux kernel
because as everyone knows, the Linux and open source movement is the
largest collaborative effort ever in the history of the world. SUSE
and openSUSE offers some of the most innovative and leading edge
technologies available and embrace the philosophy of FOSS and
community driven development. My feeling is that together it is
important that we make efforts to try and recruit and retain new
talent as best we can utilizing whatever means we have available. If
we can take just a few minutes to help new people find their way
around and provide resources for them to easily participate and have
fun at the same time it would be possible to increase our productive
community involvement reducing the amount of work required by few to a
larger amount of productive work done by many.
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Johannes Carraro
Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2012, 14:26:46 schrieb Helen South:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Rajko
wrote: Anyone that comes to openSUSE will more likely stay and become contributor if first contact is with human, not a web page. That is also a reason that IRC should be more often populated by skilled openSUSE users, not only their IRC logger bots.
This is a VERY good point. Even as a 'returning' occasional contributor I've found it quite frustrating, when I want to 'touch base' with the community again, log in to IRC and there are a lot of names on the list but nobody says hello. It's very weird, like being in a ghost town or a room full of store mannikins. It is really not a pleasant experience.
I suspect that like the mailing lists, fewer, properly attended IRC channels would be better.
IRC: helen_au helen.south@opensuse.org helensouth.com
Hello everybody,
i have written the emails about this pionts... newcomers and participate and so on....
So first to me: I am german openSUSE-User since the version 7.2 so round about 10 years, and i want many times to participate to opensuse-project, but how?? I ´ve read the Wiki with "How to participate..." but i didn´t know how. I subcribe mailing- lists ... and read them the first times, but it didn´t tell me were i can start... We must take Newcomer by hand and show then How...
So i ´ve got an idea.... we got to get a plan for that... Somebody from the lang time MEMBERS, should do this... A Newcomer must get a plan to get participate on opensuse-project:
1. A List of few MEMBERS (with emailadresses) which can be contact by newcomer 2. They (Members) should check up his Skills and what he want do (packaging, wiki, documentation..) in the project. 3. Then send him to contcact a Team (Teamleader), were he want to go or where is good for him to go 4. This Plan Step-by-Step must be in the Wiki by "How to be Participate!"
Is this difficult, to do this in future?
Cheers Johannes
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