[Devel] New to OpenHatch and have some ideas

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, David Baumann wrote:

> Hello together,
>
> I have found this project via an article in "Linux Magazin" so I got back to 
> my pc at 2:00 am to register here :).

That's awesome! Great to have someone new on the IRC channel, too.

> My first suggestion was that "we" should do some advertisement on some 
> mailing lists asking for some mentors here for the projects.

That's a reasonably good idea, but I'm always afraid that people who don't 
know about the project will think it's lame that we're trying to ask them 
to sign up for a website.

I wrote a ticket here about outreach: http://openhatch.org/bugs/issue200 
-- it involves reaching out to people who already use the site. I 
bet there are a lot of project maintainers who have accounts on the 
site who use Subversion for their project; their new contributors 
would do well to try our svn mission. So the ticket is about talking to 
those project maintainers.

What do you think about that idea? Is that something you'd be willing to 
work on?

>
> Maybe also there could be the possibility to receive e-mails via 
> %username%@OpenHatch.org so you don't need to publish your e-mail 
> adress.

The site does have a Craigslist-style remailer feature -- try editing your 
profile, and read the note in the contact info section.

> I postet the link to here in 2 forums, hoping to get some new users this 
> way.

Cool!

-- Asheesh.

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