On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 12:09 PM Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > > I've been asked to forward > https://mail-search.apache.org/members/private-arch/board/201905.mbox/%3c15597a51-68b3-494d-84bc-f94fe63e8...@www.fastmail.com%3E > here (with permission). I _think_ it hasn't been forwarded yet, but > apologies on my behalf if it's a duplicate. > > [[[ > 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. > ]]]
We could probably do a better job of advertising tools like 'nearby apache people' that aspiring community members could find local mentors and get help. ComDev is usually also good with some direction help, the problem is that usually, you need someone from the specific community to help. [1] http://community.zones.apache.org/ -- Luciano Resende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
