Paths into Debian

[Moray Allan <moray@sermisy.org>]

At DebConf13 I was interested to hear people's views in the discussion 
session on "Paths into Debian".

The video of the session is available here:

http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2013/debconf13/high/999_Paths_into_Debian.ogv
http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2013/debconf13/low/999_Paths_into_Debian.ogv

I have also put up a copy of my introductory slides, though they really 
just contain headings for what I said/for discussion, rather than much 
content:

http://people.debian.org/~moray/paths-into-debian.pdf


Some of the topics discussed:

- How do people come to Debian?
- Possible routes in, and the support offered to different types of 
contributor
- What we advertise about routes in, compared to other distributions
- Other things we could do, including a list of initial tasks for for 
new people
- Whether/how it would be useful to promote more local Debian groups


The two points that seemed to gather most potential volunteers were 
improving the Debian website pages about how to contribute, and 
encouraging more local Debian meetings -- I hope that some of the 
apparent enthusiasm on these points can now be channelled into 
productive action!

--
Moray