Re: [gnome-women] Getting Involved in GNOME

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 28/06/2005, at 1:57 AM, Hanna M. Wallach wrote:
> I recently found out about Getting Involved
> (http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam_2fGettingInvolved), the GNOME
> Marketing Team's new project, which aims to provide (better)
> information on getting involved in GNOME. Some of the things they plan
> to do include:
>
> * Look for the more inclusive concept of "contributors" rather than
>   the more restricted term "developers".
>
> * Make sure programmers understand why GNOME is a great platform and
>   community to develop software, where the help is needed and how to
>   start contributing.
>
> * Make sure that all willing contributors but non-programmers
>   understand as well that there is a place for them and a plenty of
>   exciting things to do and share.
>
> Sounds like this is something highly relevant to GNOME Women, and
> worth keeping an eye on, if not contributing to.

As a very new Gnome-Woman who has just crawled in the door <peels off  
shrinkwrap, itchy..> I think this sounds like an exciting and  
possibly overdue move.

We'll certainly get much more participation, and a broader range of  
it, if people know that anything positive and useful is welcomed. We  
need to get out of people's heads (including our own) the thoughts  
"I'm only a user", "I only do patches sometimes", "I'm only a  
translator" "I could only run a discussion group, I don't really know  
anything" which really hold back people from contributing their  
definitely valuable skills and experience.

I hope it works well. :)  I'll start inside my head: it needs  
updating badly.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)

Clytie Siddall--Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia

Ở thành phố Renmark, tại miền sông của Nam Úc