Great questions Julian and neat comments Greg. Website is being worked on, but need a bit more work before putting it up.
Agreed — need to work on all this. The key question that we have to solve as a group is getting some funding stability in place to gather resources to work on things that you outline below, which is often hard to pull is as part of student thesis (as you may know most of the initial developer community is students). BTW — the goals were changes as one of the mentors objected to it :-) I think it was a valid objection. I am actively developing guidelines to make it easier to allow developers outside the core group to join. You may have seen the wiki pages that went up recently. There is still a lot more to do there. Am also working on an quick start guide. If anyone on this list sees opportunities for early actual users to try us out, please point this group toward that. That would allow us to solve a lot of problems! Cheers, Jignesh > On Jun 17, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Gregory Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > > A few questions: > > 1. Who should be in Quickstep's Community? > > 2. Why should they join? > > 3. What do you want them to do? > > I'd change your goals as follows: > > 1. Create an ASF release > 2. Acquire Early Adopters > 3. Build a Community > > It's hard to attract people to a community when there is little to offer. > > Now, you can acquire some "early contributors" before the first ASF release > if you provide a bread crumb trail for them to contribute: > 1. Try out our daily snapshot > 2. Test instructions to help provide feedback in the Jira > 3. List of simple Jiras any first time contributor can solve (don't fix > them yourself, make it easy for others to join) > > I'd also recommend posting a more informative website so that people know > what it is that Quickstep offers and why it might interest them as a > product and a community. > > -Greg > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Quickstep developers and community, >> >> Let’s have a discussion about how to build a community around Quickstep. >> >> In the last report, Quickstep’s goals were listed as >> >> 1. Acquire early adopters >> 2. Acquire early adopters >> 3. Acquire early adopters >> >> then changed to >> >> 1. Acquire early adopters >> 2. Build a community. >> 3. Create an ASF release. >> >> I’d like to see progress toward those goals. The main activity I see right >> now is people checking in code; that’s important, but it isn’t very >> effective at building community. >> >> What concrete steps can we take to acquire early adopters and help build a >> community? >> >> Please don’t be shy. I’d like to hear from as many people as possible — >> initial committers, mentors, and people who are on this list just because >> they want to kick the tires. Tell us what you want from this project. >> >> Julian >> >> >> > > > -- > Greg Chase > > Global Head, Big Data Communities > http://www.pivotal.io/big-data > > Pivotal Software > http://www.pivotal.io/ > > 650-215-0477 > @GregChase > Blog: http://geekmarketing.biz/
