On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 09:56:25PM +1000, Russell Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll think about this and see if I can come up with a different > question. Maybe something as simple as "What do you plan to do for > the Frugalware project"?
or just skip this question. > With many interviews already completed, I now realise that the > questions "Where do you live?" and "Where were you born?" generally > have the same answer. I know of only one Frugalware developer who was > born in a different country to the one in which they now live. In > Australia - where I live - about 50% of people were born in another > country, or their parents were born in another country. It seemed > like a good question at the time. :) sightly off-topic, but a lot of people does something like this in Hungary as well: they come to the capital for learning then they stuck here. afaik IroNiQ is in such a situation, for example :) > "at the begining everybody does the same: contributes random new > packages". I'd like to encourage involvement in many areas of > Frugalware support, not just package maintenance. Areas such as > artwork, translation and documentation could all do with more > contributors. I'm planning to ask the readers of the newsletter to > help the project. Frugalware has great respect amongst its users for > the quality of its packages, amongst other reasons. I think it could > become an even better distribution if we had more people working on > these other areas. that's right: i think if a good translator can contribute to us something, that's just as great as having a new package maintainer, we all know that translating isn't an easy task; and programmers are usually not too good translators.
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