On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 12:17 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 16:51 +0200, Damien Durand wrote: > > Hello, > > > > A quick introduction > > > > My name is Damien Durand and i'm a new contributor to Fedora project. > > I contribute on the following projects, Extras, Ambassador, bug > > triaging, I18n/L10n, Docs, Websites and i'm an active member of fedora > > france community. A few weeks ago, i've started to write some ideas > > about Fedora Start program > > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DamienDurand/FedoraStart). It's in > > draft for the moment. I would like recruting some contributors by the > > easy ways with "Fedora Start". Provide easy work for new contributors. > > I can also help on translation and Wikiediting. About translation, few > > days ago, i've made a page on french translation > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Teams/French > > > > Thanks in advance Damien Durand > > It's great to get new contributors into the project. I don't think, > however, that there is a need for yet *another* gateway project. This > is the purpose of the Mentors project. The epidemic of "create a new > project" is problematic for volunteer projects like Fedora because it > promotes fracturing already limited resources. Instead of starting yet > another subproject, see how you can work this angle from within an > existing subproject like Mentors. There is not a lot of activity in > Mentors already, so if you are energetic, you can help drive Mentors > where you think it should go. +1. Exactly what I told Damien Durand earlier on IRC but a tasklist of things that are easy for contributors to start with is definitely quite useful. Just list them in the mentors page and promote it. Rahul -- Fedora-mentors-list mailing list Fedora-mentors-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mentors-list
