On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 08:56:54AM +0200, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > 1) Geographical proximity helps big time. I know that, in a 30ish minute > face-to-face conversation with Bertrand Bordage, I was able to work through > what would otherwise take up to a week over e-mail.
Absolutely! Failing that, sharing the same language and/or country and/or time zone (or sleep cycle, for those who refuse to submit to the tyranny of the sun ;) can help. I could imagine that some contributor-mentor pairs could meet up in a cafe in Paris once a month, or have a weekly 30-minute phone call (or skype session), or at least have weekly "how are you doing" emails. > 2) Many-a-university have open-source-upkeep CS (or music in > centers like CCRMA) courses (i.e. "Case studies in advanced > algorithmic auto-reglation of white space inconsistencies"). Meh, I don't care about recruiting people. At least, as far as I'm concerned, that's not the point of this proposal. I think we need *much* more of a culture of mentorship before we could honestly approach one of those programs (or even just google code!) for new contributors. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
