[Peers] Idea: Creating criteria for deciding which open source projects are good for newcomers

[Selena Deckelmann]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg at grossmeier.net> wrote:
> <quote name="Asheesh Laroia" date="2012-08-03" time="20:49:34 -0400">
>> Howdy Peers,
>
> Howdy!
>> P.S. Now that I've put these thoughts into words, I think the best
>> thing might be to go through a few (or a few dozen) "getting
>> involved" pages and write a short outline of the good points and bad
>> points about each one. It might be great to get others involved in
>> that, too. Then we can reverse that list to identify the common
>> problems, verify those with people who are new to open source, and
>> work from there.
>
> I think you are right with this. I'd be down taking one or two getting
> involved pages and writing down what I like/dislike about them.
>
> I'll take an obvious one, Ubuntu:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved
>
> Let me know where to dump my thoughts :)

Awesome!

How about we start a pirate pad collection, and then sort it out in a
more organized way later?

http://piratepad.net/first-time-contributor-review

Link to individual reviews from there!

-selena

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