Re: Debian Women lunch @ DebConf 18

[u <u@451f.org>]

Hi!

Molly de Blanc:

> COME JOIN THE OUTREACH TEAM! Please. Please please please. We'll be
> gearing up for submitting our application for the next round of
> Outreachy soon enough (!!!), and having more people involved would be great.
> 
> I'd love to see DW/DD and the Outreach team collaborate on other
> mentorship initiatives as well.
> 
> If people are interested in talking about any of this mentorship stuff
> in the near term, we can plan some IRC meetings.

Let's do that.

I think I would not be able to provide long term mentorship to anybody
because I am too busy with other things. But: I'd happily be a point of
contact for all sorts of questions, like "What do I need to do in order
to $XYZ?" "Who can I talk to about $ABC?" etc. Or could there be a
private mailing list for such questions? Private so that people dare to ask?

My personal feeling is that we need a list of useful things for
newcomers, and I'd like to (collaboratively) work on that. For example:
How do I use the BTS? Where can I learn more about packaging? How can I
get involved in a team? Which team needs help? Which bugs could I work
on? Where can I retrieve all sorts of information about packages? How
can I see who maintains a package and contact them? Links to interesting
parts of Debian: Autodeb, Debtags, UDD… etc.

During the lunch we talked about reviewing/writing a newcomer page and
this kind of stuff could go in there.

I guess we could make that happen by scheduling one 2-hour or two 1-hour
collaborative working session(s) over pad or Gobby… Sometime in September?

Cheers!
Ulrike