Suggestions for Ubuntu Governance: Reboot?

ZP zukeprime at gmail.com
Sun Nov 16 16:16:05 UTC 2014


On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 07:53:18 -0500
Svetlana Belkin <belkinsa at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>Have you ever tired it and if you have gotten stuck did you ask
>someone on the Doc Team's Mailing List or IRC channel?  Or are those
>resources unknown to you?

Hi Svetlana.  I want to be very careful here, because I don't want to
give the impression that the system currently in place is insufficient
or lacking.

From my (limited and newbie) perspective, I was simply pointing out
that contributing, to the docs team at least, requires knowledge of
SSH, Bazaar, DocBook (xubuntu), Launchpad, etc.  Not a big deal to the
person who really wants to help out or has prior knowledge, but perhaps
a larger barrier to entry to a large section of the Ubuntu population
who have desire to help out a little and start small, but have no prior
experience with these tools/processes.

I liked Aveem's idea in this context, because you could take sections
of the "how to contribute" wiki pages and turn them into professionally
made "how-to" videos and commit to a wide-base social media outreach.
As I said, planting the seeds for further interest, contributions, or
people like myself, who are *actually* researching local college
courses on Python programming, even though it has absolutely NO bearing
on my current career path! Lol!!

You guys are doing heroic work and I applaud you, but getting back to
Jono's original post and Aveem's recommendation for Newb outreach, I
think these ideas are worthy of consideration.  Thanks for the time! 



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