Re: How new developers get started

2013-07-03 Thread janI
On Jul 3, 2013 10:20 PM, "Guy Waterval" wrote: > > Hi Jan, > > 2013/7/3 janI > > > > > > > let me know if you need help from a (nearly) local developer. > > > > Thank you for your answer. > "Nearly local" ? I situated you in Denmark, I should review my geography. > For me "nearly local" is 100 –

Re: How new developers get started

2013-07-03 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Jan, 2013/7/3 janI > > > let me know if you need help from a (nearly) local developer. > Thank you for your answer. "Nearly local" ? I situated you in Denmark, I should review my geography. For me "nearly local" is 100 – 200 km ... As this info evening will probably reach 100% MS Office user

Re: How new developers get started

2013-07-03 Thread janI
On 3 July 2013 09:12, Guy Waterval wrote: > Hi all, > > 2013/5/13 Guy Waterval > > > Hi Kay, > > Hi all, > > > > 2013/5/13 Kay Schenk > > > >> > >> I think Guy's idea has merit, but...it would be difficult for us to > >> predict > >> where our next developer might be. > >> > > > > It's not my o

Re: How new developers get started

2013-07-03 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, 2013/5/13 Guy Waterval > Hi Kay, > Hi all, > > 2013/5/13 Kay Schenk > >> >> I think Guy's idea has merit, but...it would be difficult for us to >> predict >> where our next developer might be. >> > > It's not my own idea. It's largely inspired from Eric Bachard's method > with educoo. >

Re: How new developers get started

2013-05-13 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 5/13/13, Guy Waterval wrote: > Hi Alexandro, > Hi all, > > 2013/5/13 Alexandro Colorado > >> >> I co-lead the education project which included the use of classrooms >> which as you say identify key developers and evolve into web training >> around code. Eric manage to interface with schools in

Re: How new developers get started

2013-05-13 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Alexandro, Hi all, 2013/5/13 Alexandro Colorado > > I co-lead the education project which included the use of classrooms > which as you say identify key developers and evolve into web training > around code. Eric manage to interface with schools in France and get > them on specific task and p

Re: How new developers get started

2013-05-12 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 5/13/13, Guy Waterval wrote: > Hi Kay, > Hi all, > > 2013/5/13 Kay Schenk > >> >> I think Guy's idea has merit, but...it would be difficult for us to >> predict >> where our next developer might be. >> > > It's not my own idea. It's largely inspired from Eric Bachard's method with > educoo. >

Re: How new developers get started

2013-05-12 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Kay, Hi all, 2013/5/13 Kay Schenk > > I think Guy's idea has merit, but...it would be difficult for us to predict > where our next developer might be. > It's not my own idea. It's largely inspired from Eric Bachard's method with educoo. See here (Développement) : http://wiki.educoo.org/index

Re: How new developers get started

2013-05-12 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 5/11/13, Rob Weir wrote: > I'm thinking we have three kinds of volunteers: > > 1) Those who come here with a specific thing in mind that they want to > accomplish. > > and > > 2) Those who are looking to help in any way they can > > and > > 3) Those who are hoping to gain an experience or learn

Re: How new developers get started

2013-05-12 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Guy Waterval wrote: > Hi Rob, > Hi all, > > 2013/5/11 Rob Weir > > > I'm thinking we have three kinds of volunteers: > > > > [...] > > > > 1) Twice a year (once a semester) we get an influx of college students > > who have been told by their professor to contribu

Re: How new developers get started

2013-05-11 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Rob, Hi all, 2013/5/11 Rob Weir > I'm thinking we have three kinds of volunteers: > > [...] > > 1) Twice a year (once a semester) we get an influx of college students > who have been told by their professor to contribute to an open source > project. That is a type #3 developer. What can we

RE: How new developers get started

2013-05-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
new releases. It is still in my job jar. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 11:02 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: How new developers get started I'm thinking we have three kinds of volunteers: 1) Those who

How new developers get started

2013-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
I'm thinking we have three kinds of volunteers: 1) Those who come here with a specific thing in mind that they want to accomplish. and 2) Those who are looking to help in any way they can and 3) Those who are hoping to gain an experience or learn a skill Maybe 3) is a subset of 2). In some a