Re: Survey of new contributors -- results

2013-08-08 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Hi, Here is a report on the survey of new contributors I initiated a few weeks ago[1]. Thank you Lucas, and thanks to respondents. [...] > Q1: Can you (briefly) introduce yourself? What motivated you to > start contributing to Debian? What are you (trying to) c

Re: Encouraging packaging questions on local debian-devel-* lists?

2013-08-08 Thread Paul Gevers
[ I hope this mail has the appropriate in-reply-to set, sorry if it has not. I started via the web link in the archive. ] > Some made the very good point that english is the lingua franca in > Debian, and that you need to be able to interact in english if you > want to participate in Debian. How

Re: Survey of new contributors -- results

2013-08-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 01:44:05AM -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote: > > On the other hand, people who do not already have existing > relationships or contacts with DDs, and who want to get involved in > Debian, may find it much harder to do so than someone who already > knows a DD. Having a friend/coll

Encouraging packaging questions on local debian-devel-* lists?

2013-08-08 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
TL;DR: Question: direct packaging questions to debian-devel-{austrian,french,italian,portuguese,spanish}@ ? Hi, On 07/08/13 at 21:52 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > e) do localized versions of debian-mentors (French, German, Spanish, ...), >where new contributors can ask questions about packa

Re: Survey of new contributors -- results

2013-08-08 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Wed, August 7, 2013 21:52, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> 22/37 were sponsored as part of a team >> 10/37 had a friend or colleague sponsor them >> 5/37 were sponsored as part of debian-mentors >> >> Other things mentioned (once): >> - sponsore

Re: Survey of new contributors -- results

2013-08-08 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 08/08/13 at 10:18 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Wed, August 7, 2013 21:52, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > 22/37 were sponsored as part of a team > > 10/37 had a friend or colleague sponsor them > > 5/37 were sponsored as part of debian-mentors > > > > Other things mentioned (once): > > - sponsor

Re: Survey of new contributors -- results

2013-08-08 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, August 7, 2013 21:52, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > 22/37 were sponsored as part of a team > 10/37 had a friend or colleague sponsor them > 5/37 were sponsored as part of debian-mentors > > Other things mentioned (once): > - sponsored by the previous maintainer when adopting a package > - sponsor