Re: [kde-community] Does KDE attempt to attract experienced contributors?

2016-05-13 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Friday 13 May 2016 11:00:18 Stephen Kelly wrote: ... > What do experienced people look for? > > What makes an experienced person spend their time on FOSS? just my reasons: I spend spare time on a FLOSS projects - to scratch my itch, i.e. because I want it to do something it currently

Re: [kde-community] Does KDE attempt to attract experienced contributors?

2016-05-13 Thread Laszlo Papp
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > > On Freitag, 13. Mai 2016 11:06:18 CEST Laszlo Papp wrote: > >> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Eike Hein wrote: > >> > On 05/13/2016 06:50 PM, Laszlo Papp wrote: > >> >> I do

Re: [kde-community] Does KDE attempt to attract experienced contributors?

2016-05-13 Thread Stephen Kelly
Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Freitag, 13. Mai 2016 11:06:18 CEST Laszlo Papp wrote: >> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Eike Hein wrote: >> > On 05/13/2016 06:50 PM, Laszlo Papp wrote: >> >> I do not mean to drag KDE experts away, but it seems that freelancing >> >> platforms have

Re: [kde-community] Does KDE attempt to attract experienced contributors?

2016-05-13 Thread Stephen Kelly
Eike Hein wrote: > - It's really neat to go to sleep at night knowing what I do all day >doesn't screw anybody over. > > - It's even neater to go to sleep at night knowing what I make can't >be easily erased/hidden from existence, and is trivially discoverable >as my calling card. >

Re: [kde-community] Does KDE attempt to attract experienced contributors?

2016-05-13 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Freitag, 13. Mai 2016 11:06:18 CEST Laszlo Papp wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Eike Hein wrote: > > On 05/13/2016 06:50 PM, Laszlo Papp wrote: > >> I do not mean to drag KDE experts away, but it seems that freelancing > >> platforms have become more and more common.

Re: [kde-community] msoscheme joining kde

2016-05-13 Thread Jaroslaw Staniek
On 13 May 2016 at 12:28, Jos van den Oever wrote: > On Friday 13 May 2016 01:25:48 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > > ​+10 > > > > We need more general-purpose projects like ​ > > ​that.​ > > Cool. What's the next step to getting a project? > > ​Look if the 'msoscheme' name is

Re: [kde-community] Does KDE attempt to attract experienced contributors?

2016-05-13 Thread Laszlo Papp
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Eike Hein wrote: > > > On 05/13/2016 06:50 PM, Laszlo Papp wrote: > >> I do not mean to drag KDE experts away, but it seems that freelancing >> platforms have become more and more common. Also, many hobby software >> projects have undergone some

Re: [kde-community] Does KDE attempt to attract experienced contributors?

2016-05-13 Thread Laszlo Papp
Dear Steve (and others), I am not an experienced person, but I will try to reply below inline. This topic has got stuck in mind, too, for years. On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in how and whether KDE attempts to attract

[kde-community] Does KDE attempt to attract experienced contributors?

2016-05-13 Thread Stephen Kelly
Hello, I'm interested in how and whether KDE attempts to attract experienced engineers, creators like writers and designers, curators like sysadmins and leaders/community managers etc into the KDE community. It seems to me that many/most KDE contributors enter as inexperienced, and learn the