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Lydia Pintscher
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Lydia Pintscher writes life at the end of the universe, a personal blog at blog.lydiapintscher.de about programming and culture. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “How Vidalia and GIMP found new contributors, just by asking people to build it”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post about open source projects that set aside time to help new contributors get started, using it as an example of why newcomers find it hard to know where to begin.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How Vidalia and GIMP found new contributors, just by asking people to build it2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-19
What Hacker News says?
> It’s not obvious where to start. This is coming up again and again; this blog post is another data point I read recently, about a couple of projects dedicating time specifically to get potential new contributors up and running: http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2011/04/18/how-vidalia-and-gim...
Comment linking /2011/04/18/how-vidalia-and-gimp-found-new-contributors-just-by-asking/
on “Why I still don’t contribute to open source”Submitted What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evolving KDE – Let’s set some new goals for KDE as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evolving KDE – The goals are set as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted KDE e.V. is looking for its first Executive Director as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Vidalia and GIMP found new contributors, just by asking people to build it as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenHatch: Making the first step easier as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
