> On Feb 25, 2024, at 5:10 PM, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: > > Rich Bowen wrote on 2/7/24 11:53 AM: >> 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: > ...snip... > Question: should the wg-welcome group include reviewing all onboarding > materials too, or does that deserve it's own group at some point? They are > closely related, but onboarding is a larger topic. >
I could definitely see it as a separate WG. I don’t want to spend a lot of time creating a huge pile of WGs before anybody is actually committed to working on any of them, but if we have people show up to do this work, then splitting would make a lot of sense. They are, indeed, closely related but not the same thing. > "Welcoming" is about creating easy to re-use content to help answer simple > questions all around, and guiding newcomers - or existing contributors who > answer questions! - to the right kind of path, and in a friendly and > consistent way. > > "Onboarding" I see as reviewing and updating the actual emails, boilerplate, > and links that we send to anyone who is being welcomed to a new role at the > ASF - committer (on any project, or on an additional project), PMC member, > officer, Member, etc. > > I've already listed the majority of actual sources our tooling actually mails > or includes links to people in various places: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/Proposal%3A+Improving+Onboarding+Experiences > Yeah, that’s definitely a lot of work that we need to do, and looks like very actionable “where can I jump in” projects. Still struggling with the part of the process where we actually find people to *do* the work. > We need a focused group to start reviewing these, and updating them to be > consistent, friendly, and useful for newcomers. > > -- > - Shane > Member > The Apache Software Foundation > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
