Reiterating what I said in Denver - this is a fantastic idea, and a great way to get people involved in projects that might otherwise become invisible.
Part of this might also be working with projects to more directly call out other projects that they depend on, collaborate with, or are depended on by. Which in turn gives me an opportunity to point to work that Serge did last week - https://github.com/sergehuber/asf-projects-visualizer - which begins to call out these inter-project linkages that we might be overlooking. I encourage you to have a look at his work, and perhaps think about ways we could integrated it into this effort. —Rich > On Oct 10, 2024, at 5:48 PM, Nick Burch <n...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi All > > I'd like to propose a new Working Group. I'm not certain the name is right, > but I can't think of anything better... Help needed on that! > > For helping match Apache Projects who'd like new contributors, with Companies > who indirectly depend on them. > > The aim would be to co-ordinate, provide best practice, and signpost. > > It'd mostly be for small to medium ASF Projects who don't have a lot of > corporate involvement at the moment, who are key dependencies of some of our > bigger projects. It would help with getting them to the attention of bigger > Companies who use + contribute to the bigger projects, who don't realise who > in their supply chain underneath needs help. Then with any luck, assist in > some mentoring of people from those companies when they spend some of their > work time contributing to the dependency projects. > > With increasing interest in SBOM (software build of materials), it would > hopefully help turn OSPO-like questions such as "I wonder if any dependencies > of Apache Awesome need help, but how would I know?" into "I've got a recent > graduate with a day-a-week of spare time, let's get them helping with Apache > Problematic!". > > > If ComDev likes the idea, I'm happy to lead the working group, and give it > a try with one of the projects I'm involved in. I've already roped in > one other mentor from that project to help. > > Do also need help with the name! > > > Cheers > Nick > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > — Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com
