On 02/01/2016 09:49 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
First, apologies for cross-posting this, but it's relevant to more than just the opensuse-project@opensuse.org audience. In order to cut down the noise on other lists, I ask that all responses are sent to opensuse-project@opensuse.org only.
Second, this is a 'from the heart' and somewhat 'off the cuff' post from me and me alone. This has not been reviewed by anyone else, so please don't interpret this as some kind of statement from the Board, the Project, or SUSE. This is just me, talking about things I see and giving advice that I hope will be useful to the majority of the people who read it.
So, what is this all about? Well a lot of people talk to me, and after a very inspirational FOSDEM I got thinking about recurring trends of questions that come my way:
"How does the openSUSE Project work?" "Who decides what happens?" "What do you need me to do?" "How do I get started?"
These questions come from not only newcomers and potential newcomers to the Project, but also people I would consider 'veterans' who I would have assumed already knew the answers to these questions naturally.
I think that should be one of the main goals of the openSUSE Conference. To turn those veteran users into contributors, removing single points of failure in the process. There are quite some things within the project that would benefit from more hands, and sure there are some hands looking for something to do. We should have a series of talks/workshops/BoFs about that. In my side, I plan to have session "openSUSE needs you: software.opensuse.org" (tentative title) to fix the issue that the mentioned page highly depends on coolo and myself looking for some spare minutes now and then, with no time to do deep changes/fixes. And something similar happens with several areas/pieces of the project that are in kind of minimum-effort maintenance mode. Let's use openSUSE Conference to fix that, maybe with a whole series of "openSUSE needs you" topics, like software.o.o, translation, marketing release process...
[stripping the rest.... it's huge] :-)
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