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Attracting and Retaining Debian Contributors
Many projects struggle with attracting and retaining contributors; Debian is no different in that regard. At DebConf24, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara and Lucas Kanashiro gave a presentation about efforts that the Brazilian Debian community has made to increase participation.
The final barrier that he relayed is the technical jargon, terms, and acronyms that pervade Debian and its packaging; newcomers find it hard to understand what people are even saying when they are talking about those topics. They had encountered a number of problems with using the official Debian wiki due to IP-address blocks, which restricted access and required pinging people to get addresses unblocked. Samuel Henrique, who is part of the Debian Brasil group, pointed out that there are participants in the call from elsewhere, including him from Ireland; they have managed to find a time that works, though "it's not perfect" since he ends up staying up until 3am most Fridays.
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