Dear Andreas, I am so glad to have received your email, and I'm proud to be a member of such a folk with the people who concerns about the others.
I wanna inform you that I strongly like to do something as a Debian member. I'm a developer who has been working on Operating System and Virtualization based on Debian in Xamin Project, since 3 years ago. Also currently I am working on Infrastructure As A Service (especially Openstack). I have some information about Debian Packaging but I know they are not enough. I can develop in Python, shell scripts, C++, C, and a little Java. I really appreciate if you would help me to be a Debian member who has a small role in Debian Developing. By the way, I really like to work on adding OpenShift project to the Debian repo (this project is not in Debian Repo, as far as I know). Furthermore working on Kernel, DI, Openstack, and embedded Debian is involved in my interests as well, although probably I am still a novice in these fields. So, if you suggest a special package to start working on, I indeed would appreciate that. Actually I like to do something for medicine too. So please don't hesitate to suggest any package as the first package. sincerely, Mali Asemani P.S: Xamin is an open source distro in server side based on Debian, which provides users with some special facilities for virtualization and orchestration, and it introduces a production line for creating virtual appliances. Link to Xamin site: http://xamin.ir/en/ On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > since three years I'm running the "Mentoring of the Month"[1] project in > Debian Med. The purpose is to get new people into the Debian Med team > and thus into Debian. The effort has lead to some new team members (not > all students remained) and some new packages. Both (the members and the > packages) would not exist without this effort. > > At DebConf13 I reported about MoM[2] (video recording[3]) and I > explicitly considered reserving a month for woman. Until now I did not > added this constraint since there were always free sloths (monthes) > without any student. > > My observation on our yearly sprints (five since 2011 with about 15 > participants) was that we had one woman joining our first sprint and > another woman joining the second one. We did not managed to attract any > woman for the later sprints (despite the fact that I explicitly invited > the participating woman from second sprint via private e-mail). > > I also tried to gather a woman for the Debian Med team at DebConf11 but > failed to get her actively involved. > > My current conclusion is that it might help if I would focus more on the > "trying to attract woman" point rather than the Debian Med team point > since if we have only a small number of potential applicants chances are > even lower that these are obliged to the field of Biology and Medicine. > > So if there is any woman who is interested in learning Debian packaging > and wants to become a member of some team inside Debian I leave her all > freedom to pick from any random package she wants to add to the pool and > join any team that might be interested in this package. I'll try my > best to guide her for one month into the (not so secret) secrets of > Debian packaging. Since I personally do not want to subscribe to any > additional team mailing lists I would suggest to mis-use debian-project > list for the mentoring communication if I'm not yet a member of the > target team and I really hope that the team will be inviting enough to > help in the integration effort. I personally see the positive side > effect that some [MoM] tagged mails on debian-project could attract some > interest of further candidates. > > I'd be happy if > > a) the MoM Wiki page[1] would now be flooded by student applicants > b) other DDs might share the burden of mentoring with me if a) might > become true > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM > [2] https://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/20130815_mom/ > [3] > http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2013/debconf13/high/987_How_to_attract_new_developers_for_your_team.ogv > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- ------------ you can't start the next chapter if you keep re-reading the last one mali
