Hi Rich, This WG sounds excellent from a Diversity perspective. We can help newcomers to find their path. You can count with me in this WG.
Em qui., 8 de fev. de 2024 às 17:27, Kristopher Traquair < writerbl...@apache.org> escreveu: > Hey Rich, > > This sounds like a great idea. I'm not sure in what capacity, but I'd love > to offer any assistance I can to help this WG. > > On 2024/02/07 16:53:01 Rich Bowen wrote: > > Proposed: A formal working group around how we welcome new folks in a > consistent and helpful manner. > > > > We get people on this list (and on every dev@ and user@ list at the > foundation) asking how to get engaged. We almost always give them unhelpful > answers, and send them off to go figure it out on their own. > > > > The Welcome WG would write documentation, and process, around welcoming > these new folks, and shepherding them towards engagement. This would > include, but not be limited to: > > > > * Guiding projects towards the incubator. This includes the “why would > you want to be at Apache? Why would you *NOT* fit at Apache?” documentation > that we really don’t have yet. > > * Guiding brand-new contributors towards how, and where, to contribute. > This may include working with some of our more welcoming projects to figure > out best practice, and our less-welcoming projects to figure out why they > are and help them fix that. > > * Working with second-time contributors to encourage best practice. (See > https://mikemcquaid.com/stop-mentoring-first-time-contributors/ for > thoughts on first- vs second-time contributors) > > * Crafting boilerplate answers to send to folks who show up asking for > help getting involved, so that we don’t continue this practice of unhelpful > “go figure it out on your own” responses. > > * Maybe work on some kind of a badging program (See > https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ if you don’t know what I mean by that) > to incentivize and gamify community engagement, for reasons that I would > love to talk much more about, but are beyond the scope of this proposal. > > > > What do y’all think? > > > > — > > Rich Bowen > > rbo...@rcbowen.com > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > -- Gláucia Esppenchutz ----------------------------------------------------- Twitter: @lyuric19 Linkedin: https://br.linkedin.com/pub/gláucia-esppenchutz/47/81a/312
