From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9EEAEBAC for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2015 18:06:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk (mezzanine.sirena.org.uk [106.187.55.193]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DE1E11D for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2015 18:06:46 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 19:06:37 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Greg KH Message-ID: <20150708180637.GV11162@sirena.org.uk> References: <201507080121.41463.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> <20150708001650.GA32155@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QQ8SllDnVL7XJJuW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150708001650.GA32155@kroah.com> Cc: Jason Cooper , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --QQ8SllDnVL7XJJuW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 05:16:50PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > I like this proposal, thanks for making it. I'd be glad to help talk > about this issue as I spend a lot of time working on dragging companies > and developers into our community. We have a real lack of ways that > people who are "reasonably skilled yet don't know what to work on" can > do more to help contribute to the kernel. I think this *might* be something that the efforts to reduce the amount of out of tree embedded code can help with? A part of that effort is identifying areas that need fixing, there will be a large enough list I imagine. The hard part is always matching people up with things that they are interested in though. --QQ8SllDnVL7XJJuW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVnWasAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQs+QH/j2tclCK0kD8vYdRKQuZD5+y ZlKFkaguQaNnsEJy70wxG5AsHrtc0EMCVZhxxQn9IGCM77+yq8YmD9hbehJgqRn+ CF9oaLYd5X6bQwWyDYhUhQa+bKRviYBi0i0oHeuxb+JpoHccbeBHODd+hw8WP4Et dUbDgOl85MhnHdKSnRBkG8SsX9b7JdaMCictZQG2X1OdHSQilFTx4OHKd/pI/aDZ 8hsp1Queod9HGLIL1Rd3N9i7n2Kew4vdFPs3qjI5hVKtu7hXOShQXsfrJEA03pJW ZIaLL7ITL1ww6im9C+02d9ZkPj2RPxGRoAl9BnLSg7iiqUpE+Dp29ik7ozVOkXY= =gZB0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QQ8SllDnVL7XJJuW--