[UbuntuWomen] Hi!

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On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:59, Janice D'Sa <dsajanice at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is my first email to a list of possibly more than 500 (?) subscribers,
> so pardon my nervousness. :) I'm Janice, I work full-time as a C programmer
> and am a huge fan of Ubuntu. I have been using it for at least 4 years now.
> I just got back from the Grace Hopper Conference last week where I attended
> a lot of sessions on contributing to Open Source. I came back really
> motivated to explore the possibilities. I've been browsing the Ubuntu-women
> wikis to find a list of projects/bugs that needed work, but I wasn't able to
> find any. So, I would really appreciate if someone could help me find it.
> I'm not yet sure what areas I would like to contribute to, but I'm sure a
> list of TODOs would help me decide.
>

Welcome Janice :)  Hmm.. I wish I could have attended GHC *sigh*

We've always had women mailing this list listing their
programming/tech skills and we usually re-direct them to specific
communities within Ubuntu and you raised an interesting and important
point about finding a project to contribute to. Currently the way its
done is by using keywords to search Launchpad.net for bugs. Ex. search
for "perl" / "python" packages, or search for a specific project of
your choice and squash the bugs listed there. I assume this can be
confusing and/or intimidating for someone who is new to the community.

I've been wondering how UW can collaborate with other Ubuntu teams
needing help. Say, if somebody is interested in "perl and networking",
could Launchpad be scraped for this information and the results fed
into planet.ubuntu-women.org so that folks could subscribe to the
rss/atom feed. I'm not aware if such an app already exists or if there
are any API's available which can be used for data-mining LP? The last
I looked, openhatch.org was doing something similar. This is just me
thinking out loud so if anyone knows more or is interested in working
on it please holler. I'd love to help track/improve the way we search
for information.

Thanks for reading.

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