[UbuntuWomen] Hello All!

[Svetlana Belkin]

I shall do that soon, I already have some idea almost developed for a
game.  I'm majoring in Medical Lab Sciences and Biology, so I don't
really know anything about programming and only a bit on IT support with
Linux.  But I want to work with FOSS in my field when I graduate.

-Svetlana

On 07/23/2013 07:22 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph wrote:
> 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 :))
>