Brainstorm: how to involve new contributors?
Facts:
- Brainstorm is full of ideas
- There are not enough contributors for all these ideas.
- There are lots of potential and interested contributors that does not know how to start (that’s the hardest step, remember when you started!). We can see that for example in this idea.
Question: How to take advantage of Brainstorm popularity and idea pool to involve new contributors?
Current suggestions:
- Using the new Brainstorm blog to demystify the Ubuntu processes to the newcomers, and guide them. => Another entry point for potential contributors.
- Mentoring of small ideas, à la google summer of code, but with smaller tasks, no retribution and a smaller cycle.
- Spec writing sessions.
Any other suggestions?
Comments
Comment from nand
Time: April 4, 2008, 1:31 pm
I believe the FOSSCamp will greatly help to brainstorm this and I am confident we will find some ways to make this happen.
If you wanna help us, right now, you can code for Brainstorm, I have a lot of items in my bag 
Comment from Loic Froidmont
Time: April 10, 2008, 1:58 pm
I would be interested in coding for Brainstorm… Just tell me how and what I can do and I will help you.
Comment from nand
Time: April 10, 2008, 2:33 pm
Cool! Just pass by #ubuntu-testing on irc.freenode.net, we are usually around at 18-21 UTC. (Mailing list still not up, grr…)
Comment from Loic Froidmont
Time: April 1, 2008, 10:37 pm
I totaly agree with this post. I would be great if ubuntu brainstorm was not only a place to have idee, but also to make it become reality.
I would like to help making this possible.
Maybee it should just be possible for someone to be a mentor for one task if he is able to do it. Somebody else could than apply for doing it.
We have to think about it !