-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hiya,
We intend to discuss this at tomorrow's meeting, so if you have any comments/ideas, now would be a good idea to share them :) On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 23:05 +0100, Ankur Sinha wrote: > Hiya, > > So this is a follow up from the meeting we had. I've summarise some > of > it in a blog post that should hopefully show up on the planet[1]. > > During the meeting, we discussed how we need to ensure that the work > that CommOps is doing towards improving the different teams' > onboarding > processes seems to overlap with the general goal of the Join SIG. So, > to make sure we don't have two teams doing the same thing, we should > come up with a set of specific goals and some example tasks that we > can > undertake to achieve these goals. > > I'm starting with the goals here, and once we have them listed and > agreed to, we will begin working on ideas on how to achieve them. > Good > so far, I hope? > > OK. So, our aim is summarised on the wiki page here[2]. As it says, > we > want to establish a set of communication channels that enable newbies > to speak to contributors and become part of the community socially > even > before they join a team and begin contributing. > > The point being that the common philosophy we all believe in, and the > relationships we make because we share this view should bind us > together, not only the work we do together, which should be a > *result* > of our commitment to our philosophy. Does that make sense? :D > > I'll explain this a little more - usually, someone turns up, after > some > surfing picks a team to join up, introduces themselves to the team > members, gets to know them, works, makes friends, maybe even finds a > mentor in the team, maybe begins to help another team later and then > makes friends there, and repeat. > > What we think would be better is - someone turns up, finds us cool > contributors hanging around here, speaks to us, makes friends, gets > to > know how the community works, our philosophy (and finds it awesome) > and > what teams we have, finds a mentor (community mentor as opposed to > team > specific mentor), picks one or more teams to work in, becomes a part > of > the community, not just a specific team in the community. > > The major differences in the two are the order in which things > happen. > We, or at least I think, that it is more beneficial for people to > first > become a social part of the community in general, build > relationships, > and then jump into work. The advantages of this order of onboarding > are > but not limited to: > > - newbies are not limited to team specific relationships > - newbies that join together can work together, even if they work in > different teams (we're all always closer to our classmates than to > seniors/juniors) > - they get a much better overall idea of how the community functions > and are exposed to the workflows of different teams through us > (including tooling, admin, process, goals, tasks, ninjas) > - they go on to develop into contributors that also have a good idea > of > how the multiple arms of the community work to keep Fedora going > > So, what do people think about this, does this reasoning appear > sound? > > So, our goals would be on the lines of: > > - advertise our channels (ML, IRC, something else) as the first stop > for prospective contributors > - act as a net to gather prospective contributors, help them > socialise > with the community and among themselves > - further, via our conversations with them, help them pick teams > where > they can contribute to > - further, keep a constant ongoing discussion about free software so > that our first foundation is regularly reinforced > > Please do share your thoughts. If we can do this in the next few > days, > we can then summarise it during next Monday's meeting and begin > working > on ideas for tasks. :) > > [1] http://ankursinha.in/blog/2016/09/27/fedora-join-meeting-26-septe > mber-2016-summary.html > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG#Aim - -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJX+qH8AAoJEPjYwL66yJi9hU4IALyhvDfP3PjhgCzgUmYgmGx1 SHF2L1XmZAZwOHfqqdh80xee9Xbm9QREOn5JDSHDtN0Y5W/p3f/S5DZ6Lei6Ux+z n+Zz7vmCvORnL+i2tRnNHJVyyLdEFahuBaohymPxSrXPvOlJSgjzTZKfMkOdhRyt SDUKoXPwVUGsyrev61zReJWfR35OPzGr67kGpCKGYlozlxmgwezjBRrNfLKJZbwQ Fn0qoGwxU9ahWUulufj25gvdKhEP/HzpYx4JAwOj82m5T53USEvtCUiDpVTLBior P7CjXyK+wosZtYYGSuUfrN5tT8DD4FiS2BznAffxpCb1s6odn4TjbC1IVjNPhdU= =oE2Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ fedora-join mailing list -- fedora-join@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to fedora-join-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
