HKR has many great and important points!
I used to participate on another GNU/Linux distro earlier, which was even
smaller than Trisquel and a one-leader-project.
My participation was mainly hanging on the forum and helping people out with
their issues, but I also did some packages (PKGBUILDs).
The leader was basically doing all the work, desicions and inclusions of our
"incoming" pkgbuilds to the official repo. He a new family, a paywork and
all. And us, a one-handful of contributors live all in different countries.
I would also love to see some sort of hierarchy or organization here, which
would take some of the pressure off of Quidam's shoulders. The project is
quite heavy for one man to carry. I highly appreciate Trisquel and Quidam's
work and would feel sad if the project dries out. We the people need an
active Libre operating system project. I say this not to dispute or compare
all other important FSF/FSM issues, but to suggest they tie together. It's
essential to point people to an easy migration to Free Software world.
Sure there's Debian main, but.... I don't know if that's enough.
As I don't feel myself as a skillful programmer (yet), my easiest bid would
be financial support. I believe many of us could afford to budget a fixed %
of our monthly surplus to donations, be it 1% or 0.5%.
Sure I could participate in translations and document cleanups as well. I
speak Finnish(native), English and Esperanto.
