Good morning comdev, I'd like to share an idea I posted to board@ some time ago:
Daniel Shahaf wrote on Fri, 17 May 2019 20:33 +00:00: > > [...] > > Indeed, there are two concerns: #1, be welcoming towards anyone who > chose to participate; #2, minimize the number of prospective > participants who commit a false negative in their "Shall I participate?" > decision. They are not the same, though they are related. > > --- > > Random idea: Can we do something like the "CoC contacts" but for people > who feel uncomfortable joining a community? For example, some sort of > way to pair people with one-on-one mentors? > > Or, to scale better, set up a *privately-archived* how-can-i-h...@apache.org > mailing list, where people who want to join but are reluctant to can > contact us? > > http://community.apache.org/mentorprogrammeapplication.html doesn't > quite fit the bill, IMO, for two reasons: it uses a public mailing list > and requires proposing a weeks-sized "project", whereas new contributors > typically get started with fixing typos or minor bugs. > > [feel free to forward these ideas to whichever mailing list is appropriate.] ⋮ > P.S. I shamelessly stole the name "how-can-i-help" from the Debian > package of that name. I imagine the pairing could be done either by technical criteria (project, programming language, network protocol) or by social criteria (city of residence, mother tongue). Cheers, Daniel (not subscribed) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
