Stories and saying Thanks

[Daniel Holbach]

Hello everybody,

don't you love it when you get contributions to your project when you
didn't expect them at all?

By reaching out to contributors, thanking them and welcoming them to
Ubuntu community you do a lot to encourage them and help them integrate
into your team more quickly. Generally I feel this is part of our
culture already.

Discussions at UDS indicated what we probably could do better is:

 - do this even more, try to be more personal,
 - talk about it more, because it encourages others and motivates
   others who might still be a bit unsure about getting their
   feet wet,
 - generally talk more about what we're doing and what's going on
   to explain where you need help.

To help with this, we set up a team of people who work on weekly
development news to get the word out. The only thing you need to do is
send a quick mail to ubuntu-news-team at lists.ubuntu.com with "[dev]" in
the subject if it's about Ubuntu development.

Feel free to send a just few lines about

 - what you (or your team) is currently working on and where you
   might need help
 - a new contributor who just helped your team out

In addition to this, this will give your work the publicity it deserves.


You can also tweet/dent/google+ with the hashtag #thxubuntu. :-)

Thanks in advance!

Have a great day,
 Daniel

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