It would be great if you could reply to all of us with some more details regarding the above questions. I am very interested in continuing my collaboration with the GTG project while participating in GNOME Outreach Program for Women this year, and I will be looking forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Radina Matic
2012/3/23 Bertrand Rousseau <
bertrand rousseau gmail com >
>
> Hi,
>
> This would a terrific project! Indeed GTG is clearly in need of better
> documentation.
>
> Unfortunately, as I already told you. I don't think I could mentor
> more than one person at a time this year. Even if you're "low
> maintenance", that would not be a responsible thing to do for me...
> Since I hope to get a GSoC student this year, I'm afraid I cannot
> propose myself.
>
> As for the "community manager" position, I could be your more
> technical proxy if you want.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bertrand
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Radina Matic <
didinomade gmail com > wrote:
> > Hi Lionel,
> >
> > According to the info on GOPW page interns can choose tasks from 4 areas:
> > Marketing, Coding, Web/Graphic Design and Documentation/Translation, so yes,
> > non-programming tasks are allowed.
> >
> > As far for who is actually responsible for the program, a part from the
> > email address
women-outreach gnome org they do not offer much more
> > information. I was thinking of contacting them anyway, so if one of you is
> > willing to take on the mentorship, I could ask more details about what
> > exactly would it entail...
> >
> > It would be great to collaborate with someone for community management,
> > specially if that someone is more of a programming background than me, which
> > won't be difficult at all... ;)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Radina
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 2012/3/22 Lionel Dricot <
ploum ploum net >
> >>
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> >> Hi Radina,
> >>
> >> I'm not familiar with the GOPW. Are non-programming tasks allowed? If
> >> yes, then you would be very welcome. Who is responsible for GOPW? Are
> >> you sure that writing doc is enough to be accepted?
> >>
> >> We have another candidate as the community manager but I don't see why
> >> we can't have two. The tasks would be to maintain the blog and the G+
> >> page.
> >>
> >> Lionel
> >>
> >>
> >> Le 22/03/12 08:56, Radina Matic a écrit :
> >
> >> > Hello everybody,
> >> >
> >> > Recently I have been collaborating with the GTG project by
> >> > translating the GUI into Spanish, Italian and Catalan but I wanted
> >> > to contribute more and I was thinking of applying for the GNOME
> >> > Outreach Program for Women internships
> >> > <
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2012 > with a
> >> > /*User Documentation*/ writing project for Getting Things GNOME.
> >
> >> > However, even though he is listed as a mentor for the GTG project
> >> > <
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove/Mentors >, Luca Invernizzi seems
> >
> >> > to be unavailable at the moment, and Bertrand Rousseau suggested
> >> > that I contact all the developers to see if anybody is interested
> >> > in becoming a GOPW mentor for my collaboration with the GTG
> >> > project.
> >> >
> >> > I like the fact that GTG is still very much a work-in-progress,
> >> > and since there is no Help file or User Documentation yet, apart
> >> > from the lonely wiki page, I feel I can really make a contribution
> >> > by creating some new content (docs or tutorials) instead of just
> >> > editing somebody else's writing :) I briefly checked the Project
> >> > Mallard pages and I suppose it will not be an unsurmountable
> >> > venture since I am familiar with HTML. I will be sending you the
> >> > detailed outline of help topics in a couple of days, but in short
> >> > my plan would be to start from the existing sample "Learn to..."
> >> > tasks that come with the GTG, use them to create the first topics
> >> > for the new Mallard docs and expand the Help from there. Ideally
> >> > major topics could have tutorials following the user scenarios
> >> > somebody mentioned on the mailing list recently, or video tutorials
> >> > and screencast (I will have to figure out what to use for
> >> > screencasting on Linux instead of Camtasia that I used on
> >> > Windows).
> >> >
> >> > One advance warning: I am not a coder, just fairly proficient in
> >> > HTML, CSS and WordPress management. Sometimes I even manage to
> >> > change an already existing _javascript_ line (or two) without it
> >> > crashing on me afterwards, but I never wrote anything from scratch.
> >> > I even muddled a bit with Flash and Actionscript, but that was a
> >> > while ago. Now that I think of it, the first tutorial I ever wrote
> >> > was about Flash projectors and CD burning, I think it can still be
> >> > found somewhere on the web... :P
> >> >
> >> > I also saw that you were looking for the community manager and if
> >> > that "position" can be filled by somebody without the actual
> >> > coding knowledge, it could be a part of my tasks as an intern. And
> >> > it will be easier to give more international exposure to GTG as I
> >> > could write both the docs and the blog in English, Spanish and
> >> > Italian (and Catalan if time allows it).
> >> >
> >> > I know that the deadline for the GOPW applications is very soon but
> >> > at the moment I am pretty available and the only thing I will be
> >> > doing until September are a couple of online courses at the UC
> >> > Berkeley Extension where I plan to finish the Professional
> >> > Certificate Program in Technical Communication this year. So a part
> >> > from that, I am free as a bird and could easily take on another
> >> > "small" contribution required before the deadline for the GOPW and
> >> > the 40 hours per week during the May-August internship period. Here
> >> > you can find all the info about the GOPW internship
> >> > <
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2012 > and the
> >> > information for prospective mentors
> >> > <
https://live.gnome.org/InfoForMentors >. I know that you guys are
> >
> >> > all pretty busy with your own projects but I really hope there is
> >> > somebody with enough time to take on the mentorship - I am very
> >> > autonomous and extremely low maintenance, scout's honor ;)
> >> >
> >> > That's it for now. I am looking forward to hearing from you...
> >> >
> >> > Regards, Radina
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> Bertrand Rousseau
