Debian Conference 2015 The annual Debian developer meeting

Nowadays, we all say that getting involved in Debian is welcome no matter in which areas, and we have lots of non-package tasks where we could use help. But for many of those tasks/hats in Debian, there is not a clear path to follow from an outsider that would like to get involved (the common case is that one gets involved in Debian-packaging and then, with some other task too).

Do you think it will be possible for a person with sysadmin background, Debian user, but totally newcomer to the community, to follow a path to get involved (in months, not years) in the DSA team? Maintain a mirror? Contribute in other non packaging related teams? We are going to do this experiment: 3 Debian users (Silvia Pérez, a syadmin, but totally new to the community, Laura Arjona, Debian contributor, involved in translation, publicity and website and currently apply to non-packaging DD status, and Donald Norwood, Debian contributor, maintaining a mirror and involved in publicity and website teams,currently applying to non-packaging DD status) will follow the teams public activity (mailing lists, IRC channels), review the documentation available, and try to get an idea about how Debian system and infrastructure works, how some teams works, and how newcomers could get involved.

URLs: https://wiki.debian.org/Donald%20Norwood https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona

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