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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Korganizer Anniversary import?
From:       "Carlos Leonhard Woelz" <carloswoelz () imap-mail ! com>
Date:       2004-02-13 15:08:09
Message-ID: 1076684889.26687.180992271 () webmail ! messagingengine ! com
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My last mail is a shame.

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:07:23 -0800, "Carlos Leonhard Woelz"
<carloswoelz@imap-mail.com> said:
> But the programm has not been launched yet, and really, really makes
> sense.

I mean, even if the quality team has not been launched yet, it really
makes sense.

> So I am positive it will take off. It is a programm for learning
> too, with incentive to ask contributor questions, and pretty self
> contained (I will try to answer all questions first, then ask the
> developrers).

I mean the main feature is a community that explicitely states that
helping other contributors to do the first steps is one of the
objectives.

> But I believethe greatest strenght of the programm is with
> non-programmers.

I mean, programmers know more about system and development stuff, and for
them, these barriers are lower already. Therefore, theoretically, the big
shift in participation should be with non developers.

> But I will visit some universities here in Brazil to
> present this working and learning oportunity, and point the interested
> modules.

I mean: recruiting in the universities is an alternative way to attract
begginer programmers to help with the teams. They get to know more, and
at the same time, improve the project. We (the quality team) can help
with the basics and non programming tasks. The idea is coordenate this
effort with the teacher (I happen to know one professor who is interested
in the idea for his undergraduate course). In the end of the process, we
may end up with programmers who are really interested (and not doing that
only because the teacher said so), and then we can point them to modules
or applications that are explicitely interested in having them in the
group, or just let them work where they want (like always).

As you can see, this is mainly a dream right now, sorry to bother you
with that. We don't have a quality team community yet to receive these
guys and even if we had, I am not sure it will work. But I consider my
work worthwhile, because the worse that can happens is ending up with
nice guides, and with improvements in the applications, even if the
quality teams idea is not a success :)
-- 
  Carlos Leonhard Woelz
  carloswoelz@imap-mail.com

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