Hi,

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:37 AM, scl wrote:

Hi,

lately somebody committed to [OpenHatch] spoke to me in IRC whether we at GIMP want to work with OpenHatch to gain more contributors.
OpenHatch defines itself as 'a non-profit organization with the goals of lowering the barriers to entry into open source community and increasing diversity'.

That's all fine, but I don't understand this barrier thing. There are already absolutely *NO* barrier to contribute to GIMP. Unless you count the quality barrier, but we are able to accompany new developers to improve to meet all quality requirements, if they are really motivated.
I have a hard time seeing how another project in-between, as an additional layer, could do anything to improve things. But I may be wrong.

They also teach the next generation of students on colleges how to participate in open source communities, so 'Hello, next GSOC students'.
I personally think it's a great chance to get some open problems solved:
To push the things a bit forward:
- Can we mark some more trivial and gnome-love bugs?

This would be good.

- Is anybody willing to mentor some students or give a classroom presentation and if yes in which topic/area?

What is this exactly about? "Classroom"? Are we speaking about physical classrooms? Like in university?

In any case, I am now in Paris, and I am never against sharing the Free Software contribution love and lead some new developers towards us.

- Are there any topics we've been putting off, neglecting or just plain avoiding? - IMHO the GEGL ports and Windows bugs need some care.

Obviously. But that's always the same problem: we can't force people to work on fields they don't care about. I have myself done quite a few Windows bugs out of boredom. And I would likely do more in the future. But I definitely won't do it my priority ever, for the simple reason I have *nearly never* used Windows in nearly 10 years. The real solution is to find Windows developers who are interested in GIMP, not asking existing dev to care about an OS they don't use. This is the other way around. :-D

If we have this, we can update [GIMP's and GEGL's pages there].

I'm cross-posting this message to the GIMP and GEGL developer lists, because I think also GEGL could benefit from it.

Well I don't really mind people trying things. I am sceptical on using third party platform, but who knows? Maybe we'll have nice surprise. As long as it does not interfere with usual "simple" contribution process.

Jehan

Kind regards,

Sven

[OpenHatch]: https://openhatch.org/

[GIMP's and GEGL's pages there]: https://openhatch.org/projects/GIMP
https://openhatch.org/projects/Gegl
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