[UbuntuWomen] Hello All!

[Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Svetlana Belkin <barsookmud at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm Svetlana Belkin and I was a part of the group for a bit a few years ago
> and I have came back.  I'm trying to get back into the Ubuntu community and
> Ubuntu Women.  The only problem that I see is that my strength that I can
> give to the community is just ideas without knowing how to code those ideas.
> I feel like that is frowned upon in the community (both of them) and I would
> like to know how to solve that problem.

I wouldn't so much say that it's frowned upon, but instead that the
current contributors are often already overwhelmed with projects and
ideas so when new ones come along the response can sometimes be
negative or "great, find someone to make it happen, I'm too busy."

That said, we do have developers on the list who are looking for
projects to work on, so I'm wondering if we can some how get some of
the idea people and developer people together.

For Ubuntu Women itself we have a wiki page here where we've
traditionally put ideas for new projects:
http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Ideas

Maybe put some ideas there, then tell the mailing list about it? Or
create a page yourself (once you're logged in, just write the page
name you want in the address bar, like:
http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/AwesomeIdeaBySvetlana and click on
"Create new empty page") and share the idea with the mailing list.
Once you have an idea fleshed out you can determine what skills will
be needed to complete it (designer? web programmer? application
programmer?) and can begin looking for volunteers.

I'd really love to see this kind of discussion on list!

In a broader sense, we do have a "Get Involved" page on our wiki here:
http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/GetInvolved but it's buried in the
website menu and we could probably do a better job of making it more
obvious on the front page. The page itself could also be improved a
lot. Feedback encouraged! I'm a systems person, not a designer or
marketing person :)

Welcome to the team! (to all the newcomers :))

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Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2
http://www.princessleia.com