Re: [TOS] any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects?

2019-04-30 Thread Clif Kussmaul
Hi Joel, Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I completely agree that every FOSS project needs docs to onramp users & contributors. I wonder if we can be even more proactive about drawing people into the community, rather than waiting for them to decide that they’re interested. My sense is that

Re: [TOS] tos Digest, Vol 111, Issue 8

2019-04-30 Thread Clif Kussmaul
I like this, and can imagine classroom activities & assignments that use FOSS data models to help students learn about the FOSS project and database principles and practices at the same time. Do you have classroom or homework content you are willing to share? Clif --- Clif Kussmaul  c...@kussmaul.

Re: [TOS] any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects?

2019-04-30 Thread Clif Kussmaul
Hi William, Thank you for the pointer to FLOSS Manuals – seems like a great resource. The manuals I’ve looked at seem very good, but do little to draw new users into the project community. In the FLOSS Manual for Audacity, the only reference I see to the project community is a one page appendix

Re: [TOS] any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects?

2019-04-30 Thread Shobha Tyagi
Dear Clif, That is the big reason people could not think of contributing to open source the project. GNOME community[1] is the most active and great community we can work with. Thanks Shobha Tyagi [1] https://www.gnome.org/get-involved/ On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 5:37 PM Clif Kussmaul wrote: > Hi

Re: [TOS] any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects?

2019-04-30 Thread Shobha Tyagi
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 6:31 PM Shobha Tyagi wrote: > Dear Clif, > > That is the big reason people could not think of contributing to open > source the project. GNOME community[1] is the most active and great > community we can work with. > > Thanks > Shobha Tyagi > [1] https://www.gnome.org/get-