James Ogley wrote:
the point is how many people are active right now outside of Novell, and why ?
Whoops missed this question - Well, I'm active. As for why, it's because
my question was more "why are there so little people..." (contributors on this list, authors of wiki pages...) My experience is: some people have spare time. Having gotten help from suse or liking suse they come and lurk www.opensuse.org if they don't find something to do, may be simple, they will go elsewhere. So an important subject should be: what task could be given to newcommers. and when somebody asks "what can I do", there should be one people in charge of responding. I know this is difficult, but this only can group people around opensuse. some answers could be: test some part of the distribution (with so many packages, there should be many workplaces :-), take in charge That wiki page... give responsability, give infos - create a special "member team list", anything that make sense as a moral reward. on a page "task to do", there should be a list and a list of names associated, and a note "help still needed" or "staff complete". jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net