[UbuntuWomen] An idea on how to get women from the list involved

[Tricia Bowen]

Hi Emma,
When I did my original digging I ended up at that the following page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers which states that there are three
types of Ubuntu Developers: Prospective Developers, Ubuntu Developers
(MOTU), Ubuntu Core Developers. I would fall into the Prospective category,
however the information under this category does not pertain to newbies
which threw me into a circular loop.

After your email, I went to the Get Started page and saw that attending a
Friday Q&A session is probably the first place for a Prospective Developer
to go. I'll try to attend this Friday. I also found the
http://lists.ubuntu.com page and subscribed to some of the mailing lists.
Tks for the help.
--Tricia

On Jan 14, 2008 11:50 AM, Emma Jane Hogbin <emmajane at xtrinsic.com> wrote:

> I agree there is a LOT going on and it can be difficult to find one
> thing to do... I've noticed that different projects ask for help in
> different ways. Would it help if each of the projects had a standard
> formula for "help wanted"? The Community/Get Involved page on Ubuntu.com<http://ubuntu.com/>
> is an excellent start, but I agree it seems to be missing a step. How do
> you think this could be improved?


> For some projects there's not really a list of tasks for new
> comers...for example: the documentation team lets new contributors
> identify which areas they know most about and then they give them some
> documents to review. From the Get Involved page it's only two clicks to
> "Getting Started" and a list of tasks. Of course I expect documentation
> authors to be especially good at giving instructions. ;)
>
> Other entry-level opportunities exist at the forum [2], the Q&A on
> launchpad [3] and bug fixing [4] if you are able to provide "basic"
> support.
>
> I look forward to hearing your ideas!
>
>
> regards,
> emma
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate
> [2] http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/webforums
> [3] https://answers.launchpad.net/
> [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/
>
>
>
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> Emma Jane Hogbin, B.Sc.
> Founder, xtrinsic
> phone: (519) 371-2665
> web: www.xtrinsic.com
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--Tricia
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