Hi El 11 de agosto de 2018 18:06:01 CEST, Helen Koike <helen.fornaz...@gmail.com> escribió: >Hi Ulrike, > >Thank you very much for your notes. > >Regarding DW/DD: > >> It was also explicitly stated that a merge would not mean deprecating >> Debian Women, per se. It feels as though the major activities is >> holding the occasional DW Mini DebConf, the DW lunch, and >> occasionally chatting (or dealing with trolls) on IRC. So, events >> could easily still have a DW lunch, but could also have a Debian >> Queer/LGBTQI+ lunch. > >I feel that we have too many lists and channels already with low >traffic, Maybe we could use a single communication channel to >coordinate >DW lunch, or Debian Queer/LGBTQI+ lunch, or even newcomers lunch. > >On 08/11/2018 08:53 AM, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: >> >> >> Hi! >> >> El 11 de agosto de 2018 13:32:00 CEST, u <u...@451f.org> escribió: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Molly de Blanc: >>> >>>> COME JOIN THE OUTREACH TEAM! Please. Please please please. We'll >>>> be gearing up for submitting our application for the next round >>>> of Outreachy soon enough (!!!), and having more people involved >>>> would be >>> great. >>>> >>>> I'd love to see DW/DD and the Outreach team collaborate on other >>>> mentorship initiatives as well. >>>> >>>> If people are interested in talking about any of this mentorship >>> stuff >>>> in the near term, we can plan some IRC meetings. > >I really want to help, but I am too busy this month, but probably next >month I'll be able to help here. > >I would like to help to organize a set of task for volunteers, things >that I remember: > >- Help to automate publishing new rounds to mailing lists >- Help to organize meetings between the participants / mentors / >organizers >- Help to organize an Outreachy sprint (?) >- Help with fund raising >- Become a mentor / co-mentor >- ... (?) > >>> >>> Let's do that. >>> >>> I think I would not be able to provide long term mentorship to >>> anybody because I am too busy with other things. But: I'd happily >>> be a point of contact for all sorts of questions, like "What do I >>> need to do in order to $XYZ?" "Who can I talk to about $ABC?" etc. >>> Or could there be a private mailing list for such questions? >>> Private so that people dare to ask? >>> >> >> For that, for now, we have the welcome team and its page and >> subpages: >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/Welcome >> >> And the irc channel #debian-welcome > >Quick help here: > >"#debian-welcome: Cannot join channel (Need to be identified and >verified to join this channel" > >I am already identified, how can I do the "verified" part? >
Your nick has to be registered, and you need to login. https://www.oftc.net/Services/ >Also, shouldn't the channel be easy for newcomers to join? > Yes, and it was until some days ago that we had to turn the channel to +R because of very persistent spam :/ We'll deactivate that when the spam ceases. Cheers >> >> Please join the channel, add yourself to the wiki to let people know >that you are available and for what: >> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Welcome >> >> >>> My personal feeling is that we need a list of useful things for >>> newcomers, and I'd like to (collaboratively) work on that. For >>> example: How do I use the BTS? Where can I learn more about >>> packaging? How can I get involved in a team? Which team needs help? >>> Which bugs could I work on? Where can I retrieve all sorts of >>> information about packages? How can I see who maintains a package >>> and contact them? Links to interesting parts of Debian: Autodeb, >>> Debtags, UDD… etc. >>> >> >> We also have: >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/Projects/NewbieTasks > >I really list this task list, I didn't know about the newcomer tag, >this >is a great thing (/me needs to start using it). >The page mention about the project in the pov of the organizers, maybe >it would be nice to have a page in the newcomers pov e.g. a newcomer >won't know what is a tag in BTS (or maybe this page already exists and >I >didn't find it?) > >> >> And >> >> https://www.debian.org/intro/help >nice, maybe this is the right place to teach newcomers about the BTS >tag. > >> >> Cheers >> >>> During the lunch we talked about reviewing/writing a newcomer page >>> and this kind of stuff could go in there. >>> >>> I guess we could make that happen by scheduling one 2-hour or two >>> 1-hour collaborative working session(s) over pad or Gobby… Sometime >>> in September? > >This would be great. > > >Regarding the "new to DebConf" sessions, I think it is a great idea to >have something for newcomers, not only for diversity but for the >general >public. >I believe it is more suitable for DebCamp or Open Day. >This was discussed during the minidebconf in Brazil (we had some >complains in how to welcome newcomers) and now we have a team role for >that in dc19 >https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf19/TeamRoles > > >Regarding mentorship besides Outreachy, I would like to help on that >(but as I mentioned I am too busy this month, but I hope to start >helping with this soon). > >Thanks >Helen -- Laura Arjona Reina https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona Sent with K-9 mail
