-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 <snip> > > As tobi mentioned, mentorship sounds like a really good idea. This > will definitely help out a lot of so so-called "newbies" get started. > I know how it feels like to be one and I must say I was really > hesitant to start mailing list threads in the beginning.
Yea - we need to start discussing mentoring or other ways to encourage newbies to ask "stupid" questions. It's an attitude one needs to learn tbh. I've put this on my list. > Apart from this, it'll also be a nice idea to have weekly/bi- > weekly/monthly meetings on the channel or any of the fedora meeting > channels to keep track of things and help newcomers there. I see > traces of fedora-join meetings in meetbot[1] but looks like it's not > active now. It'll be really nice if someone can step-up and conduct > meetings. We can do one meeting every two weeks - I'll send around a doodle thingy later so we can pick a slot. > > > <snip> > Hmm, isn't the website a part of the Fedora Join effort to bring in > more contributors? I don't see how it'll fit in there. We can > definitely have a footer which says "More Questions? Talk to us on > #fedora-join on Freenode" or something along those lines. Not really - whatcanido came up independently and has been growing independently since. I was looking at it earlier today - I don't quite see how sending a newbie to "wiki/anaconda/contribute" helps - I think it's become too specific and too detailed. It doesn't really tell a newbie about the overall picture at all.. > > > <snip> > > I can work on the metrics part of it. I am working on a tool[2] to > gather user statistics and recently added a feature to get statistics > of an entire FAS group. The tool requires polishing and I'm planning > to have a web interface for it soon. If you guys can tell me what > kind of stats/metrics is required, I can ready 'em up :) > Lovely! This will be helpful. I think the one issue we've always had is we've never had a list of *specific* issues that newbies face. > > > - - We need to integrate better with the community - we seem to be > > a > > standalone group at the moment, and that just won't work. Maybe we > > could integrate with CommOps better, since CommOps has members from > > the > > different teams? > > Sounds like a plan, I will open a ticket regarding this and discuss > in tomorrow's CommOps meeting. > > cc-ing CommOps here for more comments. +1 > > > - - Maybe an IRC meeting a month just to keep ourselves active > > wouldn't > > be such a bad idea? > > +1 > > > - - The fas group is only for community members, do we need another > > for > > newbies? Should we just open the group to newbies? (This can then > > be > > used to give them wiki access which has been limited to cla+1 to > > deal > > with spam.) > > Spammers are social engineering a lot nowadays. We cannot really > afford to open up to new contributors just yet. Once the hubs come up and we move away from wiki user pages, I think we'll be fine with this. - -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXxgnxAAoJEPjYwL66yJi9TdEH/0GzBhoMaU0Mk72uYaDwqPD1 VmiZJHin9HlqQQz4bZj6ARCbhHhG9TaihRADPgcaz4d3jv1lZ+AVEDidjD0PwT8p aa/udYXLB8tAwIMqPp8/+5+kb3fdRC64hbtbyQcBpXUdDtqCs76ImVrT+WeGQ47S jpmlaRi9ocjVyu9ZmhW9zj9ftZlO/KpZdEkLpaw4Hvjrx/NdUlMggRNvM04wPL5J YrLPh1rjs7HTuYd+HsqdQ65h4idpK4fkeuKMX8RolDveBEBwZy6K9Izx11E8O6YS fR/5tG9pbhC+s425tuUjpm4Q6Tn8oCWQNY/EqomUybPdtlMJuuJnSdQ9hSGxD0M= =JsdZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ fedora-join mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected]
