Contacting the User Representatives

userreps User Representatives 2006-09-24 Richard Fish Christel Dahlskjaer Gentoo User Representatives (userreps) form part of Gentoo User Relations (userrel) and are elected each year by Gentoo users to represent them and present their views and feedback to the development community.

Gentoo User Representatives (userreps) form part of Gentoo User Relations (userrel) and are elected each year by Gentoo users to represent them to the development community. Our mission is to help improve communications between the Gentoo developers and users. Our goals are to ensure that users have the information they need about the developments in Gentoo, and ensure developers have the information they need to make Cool New Things (TM).

We work towards those goals by:

Being involved with and engaging the user community. You'll find us helping to solve problems, answering questions, and basically keeping an "ear to the ground" on the user lists, forums, and IRC channels.
Keeping an eye out for ideas for improvements to Gentoo, documentation fixes, GWN articles, or additional communication channels. Many of us already have ideas of things that would make Gentoo better, but we aren't above stealing (er, borrowing) yours!
Providing feedback to the development community as requested or necessary. This includes feedback both on Gentoo itself and on the quantity and quality of communications to users.
Encouraging users to participate in the Gentoo development process by interacting with developers in constructive ways, including presenting their own ideas for improvements to Gentoo.

It should be noted that we are not here to interfere with the existing communications between users and devs. Users are welcome to contact us regarding ideas for improvements to Gentoo, but are equally welcome to present their ideas directly on bugzilla, the forums, or the gentoo-dev mailing list.

Contacting the User Representatives

Have a fantastic idea for improving Gentoo that you want to share? Or wish you had known about some bug /before/ that emerge -u command? Or maybe you just feel like you are in the dark about what is going on with Gentoo and want to chat about it? There are several channels available for contacting the userreps.

Forums: URL to be determined.
E-mail: userreps@gentoo.org is an alias that will deliver your message to all user representatives (or should spam assassin be feeling cranky that day it may possibly end up in their spam bucket).
IRC: #gentoo-userreps on irc.freenode.net, come visit us!
Mailing List: gentoo-userrel@gentoo.org reaches all user representatives and the user relations team, this list is public and you can subscribe by sending a blank e-mail to gentoo-userrel+subscribe@gentoo.org.

User Representatives for 2006/2007

Richard Fishrfishrfish@gentoo-userreps.orgBrandon Berhentcheater-conrad / cheater1034cheater1034@gentoo-userreps.orgBertrand Coppakoppkopp@gentoo-userreps.orgChris FairlesCoffeeBuzzcoffeebuzz@gentoo-userreps.orgPeter Gantnernephrosnephros@gentoo-userreps.orgGeorg Witwerloki99loki99@gentoo-userreps.orgEmil JacobsQ-collectiveqcollective@gentoo-userreps.orgFabio Erculianilxnaylxnay@gentoo-userreps.orgMarkus Flaigtoskalatoskala@gentoo-userreps.orgGeorge Prowsecokehabitcokehabit@gentoo-userreps.orgFernando Vasquezlikewhoalikewhoa@gentoo-userreps.org

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Role Description and Social Contract

The initial role description can be found here, the role was deliberately left somewhat fluid as to allow the userbase to help form it as necessary.

The User Representatives have written and agreed upon a 'Social Contract', of which they have decided to work by and adhere through through-out the period they have been elected for. You may read their social contract here.

The User Representives also have a more informal website over at http://www.gentoo-userreps.org where you can find more information about the representatives and their activities.