But the code is the foundation of all other involvements. No code, no community. Bad code, bad community. And since this is (mostly?) a developer list, I assume (perhaps wrongly) that that is where people interests/abilities lie.

I like what you're saying: what other non-coding opportunities exist? I hope documentation isn't one of them cuz I don't know any one who likes doing it. Perhaps filing good bug reports? Helping out in newbie forums?

saidi

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:07 PM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
> I once asked the same question to Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu's "benevolent
> dictator" ( the occasion was UbuntuBelowZero developer preparations for
> Ubuntu 6.04). I'd noticed that 99.9% of the developers in the room were
> white so I asked him how it was that an "African" distro (as it was being
> marketed then) had virtually no African developers.

I have never considered nor confined Open Source to "code contributors."

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