[UbuntuWomen] Hello All!

[Svetlana Belkin]

Emma,

I will make a wiki page for the ideas that I have soon.

Svetlana

On 07/23/2013 08:11 PM, Emma Marshall wrote:
> Svetlana,
> 
> I don't code but I also have many ideas, so I encourage you to share your
> ideas through the resource Lyz posted as well as filtering through the LoCo
> Community in your area. While you feel strongly about your ideas (A.K.A.
> Passion) please don't hesitate to share them because the more people you
> share with, the more successful you'll be- especially in this community.
> 
> With that said, what exactly are your ideas?
> 
> Please share with us and maybe one of us can connect you with someone who
> can put your ideas into action. I'm happy to help in any way I can, even
> though I don't code!
> 
> Keep up the great work and keep those ideas flowing!
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Emma
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Svetlana Belkin <barsookmud at yahoo.com>wrote:
> 
>> 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 :))
>>>
>>
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