L.S., Great initiative on opening this up to all committers! The draft mail looks good to me -- it does a good job explaining what the this particular program is all about and the instructions for signing up as a committer are clear (to me).
Regards, Gert Vanthienen On 2 June 2010 16:05, Nick Burch <n...@apache.org> wrote: > Since we all seem happy with opening the local mentors program up to all > committers, I'm planning to send this to committers@ shortly. Any feedback > before I do gratefully received! > > Nick > =========================================================== > Hi All > > Some of you may have heard of the Apache Community Development project[1], > but for those of you who haven't, our aim here is to help newcomers to The > Apache Software Foundation take their first steps on their way to being a > part of our community. > > As part of this, we've set up a new program - the Local Mentors Program[2], > which aims to help people new to open source have a quick chat with someone > more experienced who happens to live near them. > > So, why email everyone? Well, that depends on how long you've been involved > in the ASF... > > If you're a new committer: > If you'd like to learn some more about how the ASF works, discover how other > projects have solved problems you might be having, get tips on contributing, > or even just see your first friendly face from the ASF, then please use the > local mentors program to find someone near you! Once you've identified > someone near you, drop them a quick email, and hopefully meet them for a > pint / coffee / etc and a chat. You might want to wait a few days for more > people to sign up though! > > If you're an existing committer: > Remembering back to when you first got involved in Apache, you may recall it > a little daunting, you may have had some fun with timezones or language > barriers, or just with how to get more involved. With that experience in > mind, we'd love it if you could take the odd hour to enjoy a drink with > someone near you who's in a similar situation at the moment! > If you can, please do sign up to be a local mentor. All you need is a > FOAF file[3] containing your location (it's easy to create one if you don't > have one yet - see [4]). Once you have a location listing FOAF file, please > list it in the DOAP file[5] in svn, and wait. A day later, you'll be listed! > > To find out more, please see http://community.apache.org/localmentors.html > To browse for current mentors, see http://community.zones.apache.org/ > Any questions/comments? Our mailing list is dev@community.apache.org > > Thanks! > Nick > (On behalf of the ComDev PMC) > > [1] http://community.apache.org/ > [2] http://community.apache.org/localmentors.html > [3] http://people.apache.org/foaf/index.html > [4] http://people.apache.org/foaf/foafamatic.html > [5] > https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/local-outreach/CommunityDevelopment.rdf >
