<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>I'm new in the maemo community, in the last few weeks I started searching for more informations where to start helping in the maemo community, so I want to describe my experience and give a some suggestions to try to improve the community and help newcorners to joint in.<br>
<br>1- Getting start/where to start ?:<br>I found a lot of information in <a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a> on this topic, I had no problem understanding who maemo works and how to start using the maemo tools, garage or wiki. I only found a small lack in the wiki, I can't found any wiki editing guidelines (I think this is a attempt to do that: <a href="http://wiki.maemo.org/Beta/Introduction">http://wiki.maemo.org/Beta/Introduction</a>), if this exist, it should be easily reached by new users, those guidelines will prevent some mistakes and also the wiki will looks more organized.<br>
<br>2- Now I have my programming environment setup, where I can help ?<br>I can't found anything about this, I only found some community tasks.<br>One thing that I think that may help is more or less described here : <a href="http://wiki.maemo.org/Pushing_a_maemo.org_task">http://wiki.maemo.org/Pushing_a_maemo.org_task</a>. My idea is have a table like the one in the button of the page referred, with tasks, those task can also have some difficult level/expected duration, the users can request for a task , the user should provide logs of his progresses, on the others side a maemo community member can watch this page and resolve any problem that occur (a user assigned to a task for a long time without any work...). This task list can also have small bugs tasks and requests for functionalities to.<br>
Other thing that can be good for newcorners is a wish list page, here the users can found some ideas to start coding some new software, the wish list can should be divided by categories and can also have a category to request 'ports' of Linux applications to maemo (the list already exist here:<a href="http://wiki.maemo.org/Software_wish-list">http://wiki.maemo.org/Software_wish-list</a>, but is a little bit confuse).<br>
<br>I think the rest of the wiki and the <a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a> page is in the right place, only require some love already documented in the wiki :).<br><br>I also have a question, when a user create a new software/port exists a place where the user can 'publicity' his new software ? Is a good conduit send this announce to the maemo lists ?<br>
<br>I'm in the Linux world for a couple of years, for the things that I saw in the last weeks, maemo appear to be one of the more organized open source community's, congratulations to all the people behind the <a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a> site.<br>
<br>Keep the great works.<br><br>Best regards,<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Valério Valério<br><br><a href="http://www.valeriovalerio.org">http://www.valeriovalerio.org</a><br>
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