Hey Helen, Thanks for this, never knew it existed, same goes for the Marketing One.
Do you think we should keep on updating wiki of all the pirate pad links we have. Regards Manu On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:44 AM, DuBois, Scott L. <ran...@roguehorse.com> wrote: > I think it's the start to something really great. I don't know how > others feel about it, but it could be interesting to add to the "How > to Participate" page as something of a "New Contributors Starter > Guide". http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:How_to_participate > > As a semi-new user still myself, when I have questions I have a person > or two (or three) I can send an email to or find on IRC that help me > with those questions and guide me along; That is very helpful. I would > like to help by documenting all of this experience similar to what you > did and then I can share it with you and combine the information to > make a nice little guide newbies can use to get started and subside > some of the "cold feet" syndrome many encounter that prevent them from > becoming active contributors. Among the many things I like to (or > would like to) do with the project is help recruit and guide more new > contributors to the project. > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Helen South <helen.so...@opensuse.org> > wrote: >> Ages ago we wrote this article on how to participate (especially for >> non-coders). It's not finished yet. I'd been thinking of developing >> each section into a full length short article for a magazine series >> but never had the time to do anything with it. >> >> Given the current discussion on new user participation, I wondered if >> it was worth doing something with. Open to ideas. >> >> find it here: >> http://piratepad.net/jNxlTtU8EB >> >> (also, do you remember the long OBS article we wrote and translated a >> while ago, did that ever find a home? It would be a shame for it to >> just disappear.) >> >> >> -- >> IRC: helen_au >> helen.so...@opensuse.org >> helensouth.com >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org >> To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+ow...@opensuse.org >> > > > > -- > God bless ! > Scott DuBois > www.ROGUEHORSE.com > openSUSE > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+ow...@opensuse.org > -- Regards Manu Gupta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+ow...@opensuse.org
