On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Jan Alonzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (1) How about having existing contributors mentor wannabe contributors? > Organize a codefest or some workshop and invite/encourage people (especially > students) who are willing to learn and contribute to FOSS. And oh, join > Google SOC.
I like this idea! Although it's going to be difficult putting everyone involved together physically, I think this is very much possible if we collaborate online (as is usually the case in FOSS. :) Maybe we can set some time to check out projects that aspiring contributors are interested in, and work these out via email or IRC. > (2) Think BIG and OWN your contributions and make sure it is something that > most people really need or want. Actually, a lot of FOSS projects started out the opposite: as something to scratch a hacker's itch with. It ranges from being easy to difficult to see how an individual project could be useful to others, and sometimes it takes quite a while before someone makes use of your project in unanticipated ways. > (3) Find a really obscure hardware and make drivers for it. Or for those > 30ish people <wink><wink>, plug your hacked vacuum tube and see what you can > do with it. Yes, hack some vacuum tube and scrap metal, and build a miniature arc reactor FTW! Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
