Hi all >On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > Any other ideas of what we could do to fight impostor syndrome?
Sometimes it seems that first you need to prepare yourself, and after that, when you are ready (when?), you step ahead to do X. But it's not like this: we everybody learn by doing, and in the free software communities, we have great tools to keep history of things, revert mistakes, make incremental improvements... So maybe we should make explicit that *you can start contributing to Debian just right now* (only essential directions should be enough to start), reinforce the community review and mentoring, clarify that *mistakes can be undone* (or lead newbies to the tasks where mistakes can be undone easily), and yes, provide a list, of "things that will help you to contribute (even more) effectively", (that you can learn *meanwhile* you contribute). In adition to this, dividing tasks in *very small steps* make them look less scary and provides feeling of 'I'm progressing' even when you still didn't finish the whole task. My two cents Laura Arjona -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cajr5ph1ag5d+qulrvn7pjh036xmmjdgmshdga6qdcfgxw4g...@mail.gmail.com
