From splinux at fedoraproject.org Sun May 28 14:51:05 2006 From: splinux at fedoraproject.org (Damien Durand) Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 16:51:05 +0200 Subject: [Fedora-mentors-list] Self-introduction: Damien Durand Message-ID: Hello, A quick introduction My name is Damien Durand and i'm a new contributor to Fedora project. I contribute on the following projects, Extras, Ambassador, bug triaging, I18n/L10n, Docs, Websites and i'm an active member of fedora france community. A few weeks ago, i've started to write some ideas about Fedora Start program (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DamienDurand/FedoraStart). It's in draft for the moment. I would like recruting some contributors by the easy ways with "Fedora Start". Provide easy work for new contributors. I can also help on translation and Wikiediting. About translation, few days ago, i've made a page on french translation http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Teams/French Thanks in advance Damien Durand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stickster at gmail.com Sun May 28 16:17:53 2006 From: stickster at gmail.com (Paul W. Frields) Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 12:17:53 -0400 Subject: [Fedora-mentors-list] Self-introduction: Damien Durand In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1148833073.8197.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 16:51 +0200, Damien Durand wrote: > Hello, > > A quick introduction > > My name is Damien Durand and i'm a new contributor to Fedora project. > I contribute on the following projects, Extras, Ambassador, bug > triaging, I18n/L10n, Docs, Websites and i'm an active member of fedora > france community. A few weeks ago, i've started to write some ideas > about Fedora Start program > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DamienDurand/FedoraStart). It's in > draft for the moment. I would like recruting some contributors by the > easy ways with "Fedora Start". Provide easy work for new contributors. > I can also help on translation and Wikiediting. About translation, few > days ago, i've made a page on french translation > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Teams/French > > Thanks in advance Damien Durand It's great to get new contributors into the project. I don't think, however, that there is a need for yet *another* gateway project. This is the purpose of the Mentors project. The epidemic of "create a new project" is problematic for volunteer projects like Fedora because it promotes fracturing already limited resources. Instead of starting yet another subproject, see how you can work this angle from within an existing subproject like Mentors. There is not a lot of activity in Mentors already, so if you are energetic, you can help drive Mentors where you think it should go. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From sundaram at fedoraproject.org Sun May 28 16:24:27 2006 From: sundaram at fedoraproject.org (Rahul Sundaram) Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 21:54:27 +0530 Subject: [Fedora-mentors-list] Self-introduction: Damien Durand In-Reply-To: <1148833073.8197.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1148833073.8197.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1148833467.4310.783.camel@sundaram.pnq.redhat.com> On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 12:17 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 16:51 +0200, Damien Durand wrote: > > Hello, > > > > A quick introduction > > > > My name is Damien Durand and i'm a new contributor to Fedora project. > > I contribute on the following projects, Extras, Ambassador, bug > > triaging, I18n/L10n, Docs, Websites and i'm an active member of fedora > > france community. A few weeks ago, i've started to write some ideas > > about Fedora Start program > > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DamienDurand/FedoraStart). It's in > > draft for the moment. I would like recruting some contributors by the > > easy ways with "Fedora Start". Provide easy work for new contributors. > > I can also help on translation and Wikiediting. About translation, few > > days ago, i've made a page on french translation > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Teams/French > > > > Thanks in advance Damien Durand > > It's great to get new contributors into the project. I don't think, > however, that there is a need for yet *another* gateway project. This > is the purpose of the Mentors project. The epidemic of "create a new > project" is problematic for volunteer projects like Fedora because it > promotes fracturing already limited resources. Instead of starting yet > another subproject, see how you can work this angle from within an > existing subproject like Mentors. There is not a lot of activity in > Mentors already, so if you are energetic, you can help drive Mentors > where you think it should go. +1. Exactly what I told Damien Durand earlier on IRC but a tasklist of things that are easy for contributors to start with is definitely quite useful. Just list them in the mentors page and promote it. Rahul