Good overview. Thank you!
One additional goal I want to mention on the list, for awareness, is the
fact that we would like to eventually get some consistency to the pages
that the 'Contributor Guide' lands on for each of the projects. Needs
to be a page that is friendly to new contributors, makes it easy to
learn about the project and is not overwhelming.
What exactly that looks like isn't defined yet but I have talked to
Manila about this. They were interested in working together on this.
Cinder and Manila will work together to get something consistent put
together and then we can work on spreading that to other projects once
we have agreement from the SIG that the approach is agreeable.
Jay
(jungleboyj)
On 3/5/2018 2:00 PM, Kendall Nelson wrote:
Hello Everyone :)
It was wonderful to see and talk with so many of you last week! For
those that couldn't attend our whole day of chats or those that
couldn't attend at all, I thought I would put forth a summary of our
discussions which were mostly noted in the etherpad[1]
#Contributor Guide#
- Walkthrough: We walked through every section of what exists and came
up with a variety of improvements on what is there. Most of these
items have been added to our StoryBoard project[2]. This came up again
Tuesday in docs sessions and I have added those items to StoryBoard as
well.
- Google Analytics: It was discussed we should do something about
getting the contributor portal[3] to appear higher in Google searches
about onboarding. Not sure what all this entails. NEEDS AN OWNER IF
ANYONE WANTS TO VOLUNTEER.
#Mission Statement#
We updated our mission statement[4]! It now states:
To provide a place for new contributors to come for information and
advice. This group will also analyze and document successful
contribution models while seeking out and providing information to new
members of the community.
#Weekly Meeting#
We discussed beginning a weekly meeting- optimized for APAC/Europe and
settled on 800 UTC in #openstack-meeting on Wednesdays. Proposed
here[5]. For now I added a section to our wiki for agenda
organization[6]. The two main items we want to cover on a weekly basis
are new contributor patches in gerrit and if anything has come up on
ask.openstack.org <http://ask.openstack.org> about contributors so
those will be standing agenda items.
#Forum Session#
We discussed proposing some forum sessions in order to get more
involvement from operators. Currently, our activities focus on
development activities and we would like to diversify. When this SIG
was first proposed we wanted to have two chairs- one to represent
developers and one to represent operators. We will propose a session
or two when the call for forum proposals go out (should be today).
#IRC Channels#
We want to get rid of #openstack-101 and begin using #openstack-dev
instead. The 101 channel isn't watched closely enough anymore and it
makes more sense to move onboarding activities (like in OpenStack
Upstream Institute) to a channel where there are people that can
answer questions rather than asking those to move to a new channel.
For those concerned about noise, OUI is run the weekend before the
summit when most people are traveling to the Summit anyway.
#Ongoing Onboarding Efforts#
- GSOC: Unfortunately we didn't get accepted this year. We will try
again next year.
- Outreachy: Applications for the next round of interns are due March
22nd, 2018 [7]. Decisions will be made by April and then internships
run May to August.
- WoO Mentoring: The format of mentoring is changing from 1x1 to
cohorts focused on a single goal. If you are interested in helping
out, please contact me! I NEED HELP :)
- Contributor guide: Please see the above section.
- OpenStack Upstream Institute: It will be run, as usual, the weekend
before the Summit in Vancouver. Depending on how much progress is made
on the contributor guide, we will make use of it as opposed to slides
like previous renditions. There have also been a number of OpenStack
Days requesting we run it there as well. More details of those to come.
#Project Liaisons#
The list is filling out nicely, but we still need more coverage. If
you know someone from a project not listed that might be willing to
help, please reach out to them and get them added to our list [8].
I thiiiiiink that is just about everything. Hopefully I at least
covered everything important :)
Thanks Everyone!
- Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo)
[1] PTG Etherpad https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/FC_SIG_Rocky_PTG
[2] StoryBoard Tracker https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/913
<https://storyboard.openstack.org/#%21/project/913>
[3] Contributor Portal https://www.openstack.org/community/
[4] Mission Statement Update https://review.openstack.org/#/c/548054/
[5] Meeting Slot Proposal https://review.openstack.org/#/c/549849/
[6] Meeting Agenda
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/First_Contact_SIG#Meeting_Agenda
[7] Outreachy https://www.outreachy.org/apply/
[8] Project Liaisons
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/First_Contact_SIG#Project_Liaisons
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