Re: [Savannah-help-public] volunteer work

[Michael J. Flickinger]

Hi Joe,

A great way to help, as a novice user, would be to begin reviewing project submissions.  Savannah, unlike other "free" hosting services, reviews each submitted project and the project's associated code for best licensing practices.  Reviewing project submissions is a great way to learn about free software licensing.

If you're interested, please read this:
http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToGetYourProjectApprovedQuickly

You can also help by assisting with support requests
 (submitted here: https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=administration)

A great deal of these requests don't require extensive knowledge of version control systems or anything too complex but can be solved via operations in the web interface.

We also need help maintaining the current Savane codebase (the software Savannah runs on), any help
there also would be greatly beneficial.

Let me know if any of that interests you.

Thanks,

Michael J. Flickinger

On 3/26/11 10:35 PM, Joe Kierpaul wrote:

Hi, my name is Joe and I live in rural northeast Iowa. Rich told me that help was needed with some administrative tasks. I might be able to give some of my time if I know what is needed and understand correctly. I consider myself a novice user at this point, but working towards getting better! I should be getting some GNU/Linux certifications in the next 3 months, but in the mean time I can do quite a few things on my own. This may or may not be what you need help with! Even if it is perfunctory stuff, I still consider that important! I also will have another baby being born here in the next month so I will be pretty busy, all this while working full time. I really do like some of the causes that Stallman supports and so it is worth it to me to help out in my spare time! Take Care!

Joe Kierpaul

Guttenberg, IA

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