Re: [gnome-love] Hi Gnome Love !

[Thierry Moisan <thierryn videotron ca>]

Luis Menina wrote:

> Hi everyone !
>
> I talked 2 week ago with elijah newren, on #gnome-love about the 
> difficulties a newcomer (even motivated one) could encounter in 
> wanting to give some help on the GNOME project.
> It's still a bit difficult to know where to start... Information is 
> just spread among many websites... Even the main page of 
> developers.gnome.org doesn't talk about all the ways a newcommer can 
> help.
>
> So I tried to synthetize the information I found, for developers and 
> non-developers, in my wiki page on live.gnome.org ( 
> http://live.gnome.org/LuisMenina ) ... Please don't kick my ass 
> because I used the wiki instead of posting on the mailing list first, 
> I just wanted to see also what it would look like.
>
> I tried grab info about all the ways people can help the GNOME 
> project, but there's still some shaded parts... if people think I did 
> well, then I'll try to improve what I see as an entry point into the 
> GNOME community, and what I first expected from the Gnome Love wiki 
> page (on gnomesupport.org or live.gnome.org).
>
> Gnome Love tells it's "an initiative that aims to help people who want 
> to get started contributing to GNOME. This page offers a collection of 
> links to useful resources for aspiring developers, testers, 
> documenters or simply GNOME enthusiasts."
>
> I'm in the developers, documenters and enthusiasts group... But even 
> being a developer myself, i found the front page too much 
> developer-oriented... Hell... just give a look, it's just a little 
> document that can be improved, but I just want to know if other people 
> think this could be useful as a the gnome-love love wiki first page.
>
> I see the current first page (except from the "general information 
> part" wich I found common to every team) more as the content of the 
> "developer" and "tester" section.
>
> Don't think I'm just arriving and starting to have it all done the way 
> I want, i'm not an arrogant person... and everyone is here to spread 
> some love, isn't it ? :-)) This is why i'm here...
> All feedback is welcome, from Elijah and others, even to tell me it's 
> useless because it's only information gathered from the other gnome 
> sites (in fact IT IS), because the important word here is GATHERED.
>
> PS : excuse my written english, french is my native language
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This is really great. I'm a newcomer and this really help me to see what 
I can do. This should be the first link to people that want to 
contribute to gnome. Thanks.