FOSS Mediation Manual -- Lowering the Bar.

[Alex Perez]

I saw this posted on another FOSS mailing list today, and read over it. 
I think we could benefit from some of the things they suggest, as GNU 
Classpath already has.

Full text follows:

"Dear OPL developers,

I wrote some guidelines that should help FOSS projects getting more 
lively and lowering the barrier for new developers to join. You can find 
them in form of a small manual here 
http://projects.mi.fu-berlin.de/w/bin/view/SE/ThesisFOSSIMMediationManual.

These ideas are the result of work for my bachelor thesis and have been 
used successfully at the GNU Classpath project. If the topic is of 
interest to you, I would be happy to receive criticism and comments 
concerning the manual or the general idea.

For further discussion I have set up a mailing-list (use 
http://lists.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/mediation_manual 
to subscribe or address@hidden to post 
unsubscribed). Please send your feedback to this list but if you have 
reasons to contact me directly then just reply to this mail. In case you 
answer to your project"s mailing list please CC me.

Best regards
Robert Schuster"