Hah, sounds identical to the process that got me onto the network engineering team for burning man. Thank you for the insight. Channel joined.
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:24 AM, David Nalley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Matt Stephenson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Andrew, > > Will do today. Is there any way for one of us to join Infra to help with > > setting up wikis and the like? I know it comes with the burden of > working > > on other projects as well, but I'm happy to volunteer my time for ASF to > > help around the board if it makes it easier for us to move forward when > > there are limited resources abound. > > > > Yes there is. > http://www.apache.org/dev/infra-volunteer.html > Is a good place to start. > > Consider subscribing to infrastructure@ and joining #asfinfra IRC > channel and participate where you can. > Do note that you'll have to establish trust, and be willing to focus > on projects that aren't jclouds. Looking back it looks like it took > about 3 months+ from podling inclusion date when I started hanging out > with infra until they let me join the group - and even now, I have > karma in pretty limited areas. > > My personal opinion is that projects should have someone who 'pays the > infra tax' by volunteering within infrastructure. On the upside it > will expose you to a lot of folks who are working in the ASF. > > --David >
