Suggestions for Ubuntu Governance: Reboot?

[cprofitt]

On Sun, 2014-11-16 at 09:16 -0700, ZP wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 07:53:18 -0500
> Svetlana Belkin <belkinsa at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 

> 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.

You can start to help with documentation by reviewing, adding or editing
the Ubuntu wiki. The wiki is a fantastic place to start even if you do
know the other tools.

http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute/documentation/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community


> 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!!

I too am looking at Python programming courses despite it not having any
bearing on my current career path. Children, though, make learning
difficult.

Charles