Greetings new and continuing PTLs! Now that the PTL elections are over may I ask those of you who haven't done so already to head on over to the First Contact SIG Project Liaison list [0] and make sure you details, especially timezone has been filled out?
We of the First Contact SIG are striving to provide a place for new contributors to come and get help, advice, and to better get connected to our awesome online community. But we can only to that if we have coverage of projects. As Kendall mentioned in a previous email [1], unless the liaison for a project is filled by a volunteer, or better yet multiple volunteers, the liaison for a project it will default to the PTL. Please update your details in the list and provide your timezone, this will not only let us know you've looked, but also shows us that you are engaged. What do liaisons do? You'll be the point of call for new contributors. This could be a SIG member adding you to a gerrit review of a new contributor to help engage and show some review love, or being introduced to new contributors to your project via email or IRC. Why is your timezone important? Because new contributors are coming from all around the globe and ideally we'd love to have not only project coverage but timezone as well. This way be can get support and encouragement to new contributors even in timezones that aren't covered. For example, I'm in Australia, so I'm available in the APAC timezone. I can reach out and help a new contributor even if they're interested in a project I'm not familiar with, we are all one team, and their problems may be generic enough I can help. If not, I can point them to a liaison that can, hopefully in a closer timezone, but if not at least get them connected via email. As a SIG we are trying to help support new contributors, get them engaged, and lower the bar to entry. Especially keeping there excitement up when they get their first few patches in. Please partner with us and lets grow the community. Regards, Matt [0] - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/First_Contact_SIG#Project_Liaisons [1] - http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-June/131264.html
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