So. My project proposals. Basically, this is where I post ideas, and get whoever visits this websites feedback. Maybe, some of the people who visit this place are actually skilled enough or in the right place to make it happen. If it does, please just link this website as credits for the inspiration. Without further ado, read and enjoy.
Recently, the Debian Project has been going through some issues. Lesser amounts of devs are joining Debian, and more and more are leaving. Just recently, there was only one candidate for the project leader elections. Thus, I propose Debian Mentor Month.
Debian Mentor month would work like this: One month when the current Debian devs will take random mentee's from a list of new devs trying to help out somewhere in the FOSS world. The Debian mentors will teach the new devs about the system, how to develop stuff, and take them through actual bug checking on Debian for one month. At the end, the devs in the program have the choice to join Debian with the credibility of being a mentee. The end goal of this is to increase the amount of devs that are working on the increasingly important infrastructure of Debian.
I don't trust the government anymore to give out accurate data. Who I *do* trust is wikipedia.
The census would go as follows: Every year or so, wikipedia would add a banner to their website asking for some basic census data, which is verified via credit card number. This data would ideally be stored and encrypted via E2EE, and verified as one person by IP address, or more preferably, account. This data would then be anonymously presented as bar graphs, pi charts, etc. A suggestion to increase transparancy on this would be to open source the software used for this under the Apache or MIT licenses.
The end goal of this would be to gain a second way of getting information about people and numbers. This can be used to cross-reference the official records and possibly gauge more accurate results.