Hi, We talked about making it easier for folks to join the Fedora community at last week's meeting. I've been thinking about it a little. I think the work flow could be changed (tweaked) just a little. Each team has their own system. I was wondering if we could have a sort of unified system:
- A FAS group: "fedora-newbie" This would: - let people post to the planet. This requires fedorapeople space, but I wonder if we can come up with another method of providing access to the planet. I've seen many prospective ambassadors ask this question. Since they aren't part of any non-cla groups, they can't post to the planet and it becomes just a little more difficult to tell the community what they're up to. Maybe we could set up a separate fedora-newbie fedorapeople space where these newbies could add their planet files, if individual fedorapeople space isn't OK? We'll need to talk to infra about this. - Make it easy for the entire community to interact with people that are in the process of joining the community: you just need to query the group. - the fedora-join mailing list and IRC channel will be the official channel for fedora-newbies: fedora-join will be the community side of this process. We help fedora-newbies with whatever issues they may have. - fedora-newbies will be required to provide monthly updates: this will tell us who is active, and who isn't. The FAS can be cleaned up every six months to remove people who aren't active. - we could hold bi-weekly fedora-join meetings where newbies can introduce themselves, and community members can hop in to communicate with them in a completely informal setting. We could even hold weekly meetings such that alternate meetings are held in different timezones, making fedora-join accessible to people around the globe. Community could each turn up at meetings that fit their timezones. I stole the last few steps from the infra team. I think they have the best and easiest join process. They create a fi-apperentice group and give newbies access to some infra that enables them to learn how fedora-infra works. At each meeting, new people that want to join the infra team introduce themselves. They send out a "Meeting agenda item: self introduction: John Doe" e-mail to the mailing list beforehand. Each month, Kevin starts a thread "Monthly status report for fi-apperentices" where all group members provide short updates and ask queries etc. While people are in the fedora-newbies group, we'll help them join a team, removing them from the fedora-newbies group once they've been approved to a team group. The teams can use their FAS groups properly, to grant infra access. In the mean time, the newbies will still be part of the community, even if they aren't officially part of any Fedora teams. This will work well for other teams, such as ambassadors: Prospective ambassadors can communicate with the community while they're still in the mentorship process. I would really like to see something of the sort for all of Fedora. The initial idea was to make Fedora Join the *single* stop for anyone that wants to join the community. We'll have to communicate with the other teams, sure, but it's a start. Comments? -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur (FranciscoD) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Join Fedora! Come talk to us! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG
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