Hi! (Mail will appear a bit later than creation date of it, cause no WLAN atm.)
I thank you for "Creating a new environment for newcomers" and "New to Debconf" BOFs yesterday. I thought "Wow, this is much on Debconf", thought being overwhelmed. There especially the story by vagrant helped me about even shutting down at times on his first DebConf. I appear to be highly sensitive – at least its a check, check, check, check for me on questionaires regarding HSP –, I perceive much, I take in much and so it is a lot of new impressions for me and I may have been shortly before shutting down myself yesterday. Also the mentoring of the month thing Andreas mentioned: I thought I could use something like this. Even on a smaller scale of working on my existing packages while being able to ask questions where I am stuck. So now I feel motivation again to unstuck some of my packaging work I left alone after having felt frustrated about some experiences I had during the high phase of systemd related discussions after which I even unsubscribed from debian-devel (still unsubscribed there). I didn´t work on Debian packaging since then. I already started to find out that even after all my experiences I still see Debian as the distro I prefer, want to use and want to contribute too, but I am now also slowly realizing that Debian as a project of people may be more inclusive of inviting new people to it than I thought and that my impressions I got from mailing list participation are just a part of the picture and may very well be biased by the way of communicating there. That my work doesn´t need to be perfect initially and I am invited to just ask about ways to improve it. I will do so in another mail. So I intent to work on my packages again since a long time. Between talks and the phases of rest I intend to grant myself to process everything. Ideally I want to become a DM regarding these packages, of course working in a team where it makes sense (like together with Marc on atop). So for this mail: Just thank you! I am happy I decided to challenge myself to go to DebConf with one week of meeting people in person I may have build some preconceptions through mailing list communications before. So thank you to Andreas, Francesca and Enrico, but also to all the members of the organization and video team for making DebConf possible. Thank you, -- Martin _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
