Just taken a look at https://whatcanidoforfedora.org and I agree this is whats needed, make it easy for people to figure out what help is needed, where and how to get involved. We really do need more help for lots of free sotftware projects.
I never even knew these two sites existed, so we really need to make sure that people know about them) so maybe on debian.org the help debian link needs to be more prominent, not as a pop up they are irritating. Overall, what I think we could do with from the fsf and fsfe is what can I do for free softrware and have something very similar there. That can then signpost people to various projects not just Operating System projects but helping with all the other components. e,g pages for firefox, libreoffice, even vi and emacs. Paul On 08/05/2019 03:18, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 12:08 AM Prateek Nayak wrote: > >> the contributor profiling idea has intrigued me > > Excellent, this is something that is mostly done manually via IRC at > the moment. Newcomer enters a Debian IRC channel, we try to ask > questions about their interests/skills/influences and point them at > places that might be suitable, with the Help Debian page and the > how-can-i-help package as a fallback. This approach can sometimes lead > to choice overload though since there is so much to do and many > newcomers don't have very specific ideas about what they want to work > on. > > https://www.debian.org/intro/help > > I think it would be a good idea to explore the onboarding > resources/services/processes for other Linux distributions and free > software projects and see what is out there. For example > Fedora/Mozilla have this Ask Not thing: > > https://whatcanidoforfedora.org/en/ > https://whatcanidoformozilla.org/ > >> hosted on firestore > > This looks like a Google Cloud product. Official Debian services > cannot rely on external/proprietary/cloud services, so please replace > Firestore with software that is already packaged for Debian. > >> P.S. I'll love to share an entire timeline for the project > > Official Debian services need to be maintained indefinitely so after > the initial implementation it would be important to have a team that > can continually keep the service both working and evolving as Debian > changes and evolving to be a good fit for the new people coming to > Debian at each point in time. > > PS: some further advice on hosting Debian services, including gratis > hosting for service experiments like this: > > https://wiki.debian.org/ServicesHosting > -- Paul Sutton http://www.zleap.net https://www.linkedin.com/in/zleap/ gnupg : 7D6D B682 F351 8D08 1893 1E16 F086 5537 D066 302D
