The project isn't focused enough on making people "add their little brick to the project".
We have to make it more easy, more visible, more accessible to get involved.
To the programmer and "non-programmer" (there is a lot to do that is not about programming, and there is certainly a loooot of people in that situation).
I'm sure there are so many people willing to contribute, but they don't know how to (true for almost all non-programmers), or they are afraid of getting involved in a 1000-hours project. Consequently, they don't contribute. Let's use this goodwill and energy more efficietly !
Linux/Ubuntu is really great at promoting its "products" , in a very competitive environment.
But the success of Linux/Ubuntu relies on two main points:
_ 1: having a high adoption rate
_ 2: having a vast community of people contributing
1: it's how we are going to make hardware vendors/software developpers make their product compatible with the OS we like :). It's also a way of sharing something we like. All this make this first point good and usefull (for Ubuntu / Linux / the Open Source world in general)
But Usually the focus is not enough on the 2nd point. But that 2nd point is what makes the project evolve, get better ... everything !
=> Ideas I have (I just want to give ideas, but I don't pretend they are 100% good, nor that these are the only ideas !) :
_ create a dedicated section in Ubuntu Brainstorm (that could be called "people involvment")
_ create a VISIBLE "to do list" of little tasks, that anybody could do (with a mentor attached), just to get them involved, and see how to contribute the project (like Wikipedia is really good at: any new comer can add a little "brick" to the project in 5 minutes)
_ promote mentoring in general (the first step is usually pretty hard to do, you don't know where/how to begin)
_ promote links with the educations systems: a lot of teachers/professors are fond of Ubuntu/Open Source , I'm sure if they knew how to, they could make their students work on usefull projects for the open source community (better that a lot of projects we all did at school, that actually finish in the trash)
_ List to be continued !!!
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