[UbuntuWomen] get involved with vidalia

[Jessica Ledbetter]

And the update:
http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2011/04/18/how-vidalia-and-gimp-found-new-contributors-just-by-asking/

Adding Beginners Team because some of the ideas might be useful for the Dev
FG as well.


On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:30 AM, ॥ स्वक्ष ॥ <vid at svaksha.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Openhatch is holding a 'build it' initiative in collaboration with
> Vidalia, the front-end for the proxy (if installed) on your system.
> So, if you have C/C++ skills, dont forget to join #vidalia on
> irc.oftc.net to volunteer!
>
> Continue reading for more details from,
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/vidalia-get-involved :
>
> Hello everyone, for those who don't know me, I'm the one that's taking
> care of Vidalia these days.
>
> The other day I was contacted by paulproteus in the #vidalia IRC
> channel about an initiative they (OpenHatch) are organizing called
> "Build It".
>
> The idea
>
> Open Source projects live and die depending on contributors and people
> that want to see the project evolve, but this isn't so easy sometimes.
> The guys behind the Build It initiative have a theory about this
> difficulty:
>
>    "...lots of users of free desktop software want to get involved in
> customizing or contributing to the project's development, but they
> haven't gotten to the first step of getting the program to compile."
>
> Since I'm a Gentoo user for years now, the compilation part comes
> naturally to me and I haven't thought of this issue that way but it's
> an interesting approach.
>
> The event
>
> This week, people involved in Vidalia and other Open Source projects
> will be at a specific time online to help users (future developers,
> may be :) ) jump over this compilation wall. Particularly, Vidalia is
> scheduled for this Friday at 13:00 UTC in the same place as usual:
> #vidalia at OFTC.
>
> While this event is taking place on a particular day and a particular
> time, I'm online all the time (even when I'm not in front of the
> computer). So if you want to contribute to Vidalia or any of the
> projects around Tor (or Tor itself), don't hesitate, just get online
> and start typing, but be patient and stick around. Also, you'd
> probably want to read this:
> https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en
>
> If you want to know more about the Buld It initiative, you can ask in
> #openhatch at Freenode, or read here:
> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Build_it
>
> </ https://blog.torproject.org/blog/vidalia-get-involved >
>
>
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> vid ॥ http://svaksha.com ॥
>
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