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Point taken. FWIW, helping with the mentoring.is page (albeit a small project) is what got me started about this whole topic. I've been talking with a couple o
by cobychapple 15y ago
Point taken.
FWIW, helping with the mentoring.is page (albeit a small project) is what got me started about this whole topic. I've been talking with a couple of mentors (who are heavily involved in open source themselves) about how I can contribute to some of my favourite projects, and it's definitely something I plan to do as I get free time.
- naner 15y agoSounds good. Open source projects tend to be lacking non-programmer volunteers and the design aspect gets overlooked a lot. Hopefully you'll find some good projects that are receptive to outside design help. Sorry, I didn't quite grasp what you were implying earlier. I didn't realize that you were a fan of the mentoring.is project and then offered them your help (which is what I was encouraging you to do), I thought you had just set up a mentoring page for yourself (which seemed unrelated).
- pinwale 15y agoIt can be hard to get some people in the open source community to accept that "shiny stuff" is also crucial to a project. For example, I organized and developed the http://www.thisisthecountdown.com http://www.thisisthecountdown.com event for the recent Ubuntu release as a volunteer project. While the response was mostly well received, there were very harsh remarks by some people directed at the site.
- cobychapple 15y agoNice design! Can I ask where you got that header background image from?
- pinwale 15y agoThe background was adapted from a NASA photo but I can't seem to find the original photo at the moment. In the weeks before the release, the site had a countdown timer with the original image as the background. You can see some of the stages of the Ubuntu ARG on google images: http://goo.gl/eGjTT http://goo.gl/eGjTT