(I totally don't count as a "no coding experience", but...)
> What first attracted you to contributing to Dreamwidth?
One of you poked me!
> What are some of the things that we (the DW project maintainers) did to make you feel welcome?
You actually looked at my contributions.
> What's the best thing we did to help you get up to speed and contribute effectively?
To be honest, not much -- but also I came around *WAY* early before y'alls had anything of that sort set up.
> Was there anything in particular, big or small, that made you decide that DW was the kind of project you wanted to contribute to?
Same as for what you did to make me feel welcome -- actually looked at my contributions.
> If you've had experience on other OSS projects, what makes DW different? Better? (Worse?)
DW has a definitive task list ( of course, nowadays I've been going off on my own more and more based on things I've heard wanted, but... )
> What's your favorite part about the DW project culture?
That I can correct my "boss" (e.g. mark) and not get in trouble! And that it's totally acceptable to know more then him!
> Do you have any good stories to share about awesome moments?
Probably the whole "I finished the importer during finals week" thing.
> What are some of the things you've learned, both technical and otherwise, while working on DW that you don't think you would have learned otherwise?
BML sucks, editing the args of a Schwartz task saves said changes to the DB on temp-failures, and tons of other random technical quirks of the codebase.
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> What first attracted you to contributing to Dreamwidth?
One of you poked me!
> What are some of the things that we (the DW project maintainers) did to make you feel welcome?
You actually looked at my contributions.
> What's the best thing we did to help you get up to speed and contribute effectively?
To be honest, not much -- but also I came around *WAY* early before y'alls had anything of that sort set up.
> Was there anything in particular, big or small, that made you decide that DW was the kind of project you wanted to contribute to?
Same as for what you did to make me feel welcome -- actually looked at my contributions.
> If you've had experience on other OSS projects, what makes DW different? Better? (Worse?)
DW has a definitive task list ( of course, nowadays I've been going off on my own more and more based on things I've heard wanted, but... )
> What's your favorite part about the DW project culture?
That I can correct my "boss" (e.g. mark) and not get in trouble! And that it's totally acceptable to know more then him!
> Do you have any good stories to share about awesome moments?
Probably the whole "I finished the importer during finals week" thing.
> What are some of the things you've learned, both technical and otherwise, while working on DW that you don't think you would have learned otherwise?
BML sucks, editing the args of a Schwartz task saves said changes to the DB on temp-failures, and tons of other random technical quirks of the codebase.