On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:55 PM, LH <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm writing to provide feedback on your help wanted listing, > specifically: > > http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Help_Wanted:_Metalink > > You folks have a truly excellent project description section. This is > where many folks have trouble, but yours is great.
Thanks, LH! > In the mentor capacity section, you have not indicated whether you are > interested in doing in person mentoring. If you are willing to do so, > please consider listing where folks who are willing to mentor in > person are (city, state/province, country) so that folks who are > looking for live mentors know immediately if you'll be able to help > them. I've added myself, if anyone else is able to volunteer some time in person, please add yourselves. > Your ideas list is the same as your bounties list. Are you OK with > that? If you are looking for mentees, offering them cash may not be > the best way to attract folks who want to contribute to your project > long term. true. but at the same time, we need these projects done, & there are bounties for them. maybe say something along the lines of "We would appreciate new mentees to begin working on non-bounty projects first." ? > You also may want to add a few more links to documentation that would > be helpful for beginners. The links to issue trackers, blog posts, > etc. give more detail about the problem, but not where one would start > to get more knowledge about how to solve the problem. (e.g. where > would one go to learn more about libxml2 as required for the Google > Chrome support idea). good point, I've updated a few & I'll keep doing that so there's as much info as useful there. > Other than these nits, your listing looks very good to me. > > I'd like to organize an IRC meeting for the folks who have signed up > on the teachingopensource.org FOSS Mentor Projects wiki page, and plan > to organize the meeting time, etc., on the teachingopensource.org > mailing list. Would whomever from your team is interested in attending > please ensure that you're signed up on this mailing list? It's pretty > low traffic and I will prefix all messages with [MENTORS] in the > subject line so you can further filter your mail. > > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > I'm hoping to schedule this meeting to take place the week of April > 20th so this should give you some time to subscribe. I'm subscribed and a meeting then is good for me. > Looking forward to working with you folks! me too, thanks! > Cheers, > LH > > ----- > Leslie Hawthorn > http://www.hawthornlandings.org > http://identi.ca/lh > http://www.twitter.com/lhawthorn -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
