Hi Paul,
may I add my talk about "How to attract new developers for your team"[1]
(which got even subtitles[2]) to your list. I'm fully convinced that
the problem of the kind of "general" sponsoring has something to do with
a lack of positive motivation / interest of sponsors to pick "any
random" package. If you are connected to a team with some shared
interest you could have way better chances. To stress this and to make
people (specifically sponsees) aware of potentially motivated teams where
team members are not simply lurking on debian-mentors list by my
Sponsering of Blends[3] effort and I'd like to quote Asheesh's remark in
my talk[2]:
So it seems like we should try to run around all of the users of
Debian and who have friends who are DDs and say "Is there a topic
in Debian you care about? Create a Blend today!"
This is what I'm doing since ten years and I have proven with numbers
and graphs that this is helpful even in very less populated (compared to
say multimedia, games, GIS, etc.) topics like medicine[4]. In short: If
stop considering Debian as a assembly of single independant packages (at
least packaging wise not regarding technical dependencies) but rather
consider it sets of packages created by strong teams to fit certain user
groups interests it comes naturally to me that sponsees will find
sponsors in those teams. However, my ten year experience tells me that
this approach seems to be complicated to implement (otherwise we would
have more Blends).
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/987.en.html
[2]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debconfsubs/debconfsubs.git;a=blob;f=DebConf13/english/987_How_to_attract_new_developers_for_your_team.en.srt
[3] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends/SoB
[4] https://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/988.en.html
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:44:12AM +0200, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Dave Steele wrote:
>
> > I was curious about the current efficacy of the BTS-based RFS process,
> > and so created some charts[1] to provide visibility.
>
> Interesting stuff, some thoughts...
>
> If you plan to continue running these charts, please add some links to
> them on this wiki page:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Statistics
>
> At some point it might be interesting to merge them into the
> mentors.debian.net code.
>
> Your conclusions are similar to what we know already anecdotally. The
> problem is and always has been how to get existing members of Debian
> to be interested in sponsoring and mentoring instead of doing their
> own work. At DebConf13 the DPL mentioned what tends to work right now
> and there were a couple of other mentoring related events,
> unfortunately the BoF was not recorded but I think there might be
> notes in gobby.debian.org.
>
> https://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/972.en.html
> https://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/1082.en.html
> https://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/1002.en.html
>
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> pabs
>
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