On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 23:15 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: > Op Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:50:43 -0400 > schreef George Roberge <grobe...@andforthelamb.org>: > > > I did spend some time on the site and Savannah, and created accounts > > on both. I'll tell you that looking over the project was a little > > intimidating (since I'm not a coder), but I did see a few places > > where I could help out with some of the perhaps more tedious jobs. > > There are plenty of teams on the site, and it appears that there's > > plenty to do. > > The project's not meant to be intimidating, but I can understand if it > looks like our attention is mainly on code. Other areas need help too. > > > One thing first: I saw on Savannah that before jumping into asking > > permission to be added to a project, that the "applicant" should > > reach the project leader(s) through another means, like the project's > > mailing list. So I imagine that this would be the place to talk to > > someone? > > Yes. > > > And this may be a dumb question, but given the need for > > coders, is there honestly a point for a non-coding person at this > > time? > > Your written English skills could help with cleaning up the wiki. There > are more than a few outdated pages on it [1]. Some should be > updated/rewritten, some should be deleted. The better the website is > written, the more attractive and useful it is to users. > > You also mentioned advocacy. I would like it if gNewSense would be > known not just among software freedom enthusiasts, but also with people > outside that community that might be interested. Hanging out with those > crowds and dropping names is a good start. I'm open to other > suggestions (for identifying target groups and ways to reach out to > them). > > > And this may be a dumb question, but given the need for coders, is > > there honestly a point for a non-coding person at this time? I don't > > want to jump in and start doing things that aren't particularly > > useful to anyone at this point, and have anyone thinking, "Oh, yay, > > thank you for doing that thing...that really doesn't serve any > > purpose at this point...." > > You're welcome to contribute in any way you see fit, keeping in mind > that our focus is software freedom and that available man-hours in the > team are limited. > > > Silly question maybe, but I have zero experience joining something > > like this. I'm a good independent learner, but I'm not familiar with > > "the system" here. > > Not much of a system, really. Showing initiative and asking for help > when you need it should get you a long way. > > [1] http://www.gnewsense.org/CategoryOutdated
Excellent- sounds like a plan, then. I'll get on the gNewSense site and find something to do. Thank you! By the way: the Northeast GNU/Linuxfest is next Saturday in Boston, MA (USA). I don't know who will be there representing Linux; I know FreeBSD and Red Hat were there last year. Perhaps there's an opportunity there, if gNewSense has pamphlets or anything like that. Take care, George R. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
