Hi Ricardo, first of all, thanks for your reply and for your approach too. I think you should retry next year, with a detailed proposal. In the meanwhile, you can start to know people in the openSUSE community and the developers at Novell that work on openSUSE. It doesn't hurt for sure to you and to them, if you are intentioned to take part to the GSOC initiative in the future. Plus your idea were actually appreciated by two of them already! Another little tip: a polite email to poke someone is not against the netiquette, and actually shows you are interested. The guys at openSUSE/Novell are very busy, so a direct contact is much more effective than the ML in my opinion. If you need "lessons on how to poke people", feel free to ask to suseROCKs. He is the expert! :-) Best wishes, and stay around :-) Il giorno lun, 13/04/2009 alle 21.37 -0400, Ricardo Cornet ha scritto:

No, I did not contact them. As I said in the previous mail, I misundersttod of Cornelius Schum more of as support/encouragement than actual mentorship interest. And Michael Loffler mail was also a miss for me. I once again thought that the people interested on mentoring would be on the mailing list and if interested would contact me and telling me explicitly so.

I did not want to be overly aggressive on contacting every single person. That included PM people on irc when they were available.

Later thanks to suseRocks on freenode I got Coly Li mail and the assurance that is was ok to contact people directly. So at least I was able to talk a little with someone about a proposal, the extend of details, etc.

So I hope this truly serves anyone looking on the mailing list archives on the future.

Also the mailing list faq give me a feeling of "beware of what you do" attitude regarding nettiquete. :-)

Well I know better for the future now.

Ricardo Cornet

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