Hi, On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 12:08:15PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I'm currently processing the answers to the survey I mentioned in [1]. > Looking at what I've processed so far, one of the conclusions, I think, > will be that a very large proportion of people who managed to get their > first package uploaded had a friend or colleague to whom they could ask > questions when needed. This is not a bad thing per se, but it means that > it's much harder for people without such a "direct support channel" to > succeed.
IMHO newcomers just do not expect to find such a friend inside the Debian community. My canonical answer to increase the chances that people will be able to easily find friends is to build teams with a certain focus which should try to make themselves visible to users (=potential developers). We just found the name Blends for this and I hope to be able to *prove* that Blends can be help getting new developers in my talk at DebConf[1] when I present numbers that we have won one DD per year (in average) who admitted that he is only in Debian *because* this specific Blend exist. If this is possible for a leaf project as I defintely regard medicine and biology how much better could be our chances in other fields if people would *actively* reach out for users and thus developers as Debian Med did? > This initiative could be the basis for a way for new contributors to > find such a "online Debian friend" that could then answer their > questions about BTS usage, packaging, etc. In Debian Med this is called Mentoring of the Month[2] and besides I will metnion it in[1] as well I will have a dedicated talk about MoM as well[3]. Kind regards Andreas. [1] http://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/986.en.html [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM [3] http://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/987.en.html -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130804184944.gb19...@an3as.eu