Re: Mentor Program and first steps for KDE

Hi,

You can change my email address to be [email protected]

I mentor quite a lot of newcomers but I don't know how much come through this 
page. Usually it's from a mail exchange or a chat on IRC that people are 
encouraged and helped and then mentored to lead to contribution. See * for 
more details.

I think the next thing to do is to better gather and advertize "Junior Jobs" 
as an easy entry into KDE and I was thinking the other day to include a JJ 
Week for 4.8 a bit before freeze but after things are stabilized enough to 
make contributions easier. 

(*) In the KDE-Edu team we had lots of new contributors during the years and 
several started with an Edu application to then broaden their contribution to 
KDE core libs. Recently we got a new contributor from a live meeting with 
Lydia at a show and 2 others who started sending patches and were welcomed and 
encouraged by mail to do more if they wanted. They did. Those three did not 
require lots of mentoring, they were quick to build sources, make a match and 
use KDE development tools and got an account very quickly.
We also got lots of Indian students enthusiatically contributing to GSoC and 
SoK after we met them at conf.kde.in. 

In the past I got people through this mentoring page but I don't recall anyone 
mentioning this recently.

Best regards,

Anne-Marie
(who gets verbose when it comes to help new contributors)


Le Monday 6 June 2011 02:40:02, Will Entriken a écrit :
> Hello all,
> 
> I am updating the KDE Get Involved website and the people below are
> listed as mentors for a specific KDE program. If you no longer wish to
> be listed as a mentor, please let me know. And for people reading this
> on the mailing lists we can add you if you like. If you have a success
> story about the mentor program, please share.
> 
> Cheers,
> Will Entriken
> 
> 
> PEOPLE LISTED AS MENTORS FOR THE DOCUMENTATION TEAM
> -------------------------------
> Burkhard Lück ([email protected])
> Sebastian Kügler ([email protected])
> 
> 
> PEOPLE LISTED AS MENTORS FOR THE ACCESSIBITILY TEAM
> -------------------------------
> Jeremy Whiting ([email protected])
> Sebastian Sauer ([email protected])
> 
> 
> PEOPLE LISTED AS MENTORS FOR THE TRANSLATION TEAM
> -------------------------------
> Albert Astals Cid ([email protected])
> Kevin Scannell ([email protected])
> Marta Rybczyńska ([email protected])
> 
> 
> PEOPLE LISTED AS MENTORS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
> -------------------------------
> Elio Joly Botogoske ([email protected])
> Eike Hein ([email protected])
> Albert Astals Cid ([email protected])
> Peter Simonsson ([email protected])
> Will Entriken ([email protected])
> Anne-Marie Mahfouf ([email protected])
> Jeremy Whiting ([email protected])
> 
> 
> PEOPLE LISTED AS MENTORS FOR THE ART TEAM
> -------------------------------
> Nuno Pinheiro ([email protected])
> 
> 
> PEOPLE LISTED AS MENTORS FOR THE PROMOTION TEAM
> -------------------------------
> Justin Kirby ([email protected])
> Stuart Jarvis ([email protected])
> 
> 
> PEOPLE LISTED AS MENTORS FOR THE TESTING TEAM
> -------------------------------
> NOBODY!
 
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