Phone a Friend

October 15, 2005 11:52 am General

Most of my best thoughts happen around alcohol. I’m not embarassed by that or anything – I figure it’s in the blood being an Irishman. For a while I’ve been thinking about how people get involved in Open Source development. A lot of the time they lurk behind user groups, installing the latest ISOs or upgrading to the the latest release of their favorite software. That’s great – I’m glad they’re trying our software.

But what takes them to go to the next level? What persistence does it take to log a bug, attach a patch? How do you get to be the next Jeff Waugh [tm]?

For me, everything happened overnight when I attended my first GNOME conference in Copenhagen. I remember feeling amazingly motivated after that conference. I saw so many new faces, and talked to so many new and exciting people who were interested in the project that I was. Those faces soon turned into so many wonderful friends and I owe the GNOME project so much for that.

So, it’s time to reach out. I want to make that connection once again. We have all these fantastic new technologies to make that connection so much easier – everything from skype to the standard telephone. Instead of replying to a bugzilla reports, we should talk in real time.

Send me your phone number, or skype username. Let’s talk.

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