<div dir="ltr">Hi Ankur,<br><br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Ankur Sinha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sanjay.ankur@gmail.com" target="_blank">sanjay.ankur@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
We talked about making it easier for folks to join the Fedora community<br>
at last week's meeting. I've been thinking about it a little. I think<br>
the work flow could be changed (tweaked) just a little. Each team has<br>
their own system. I was wondering if we could have a sort of unified<br>
system:<br>
<br>
- A FAS group: "fedora-newbie"<br>
This would:<br>
- let people post to the planet. This requires fedorapeople space,<br>
but I wonder if we can come up with another method of providing access<br>
to the planet. I've seen many prospective ambassadors ask this question.<br>
Since they aren't part of any non-cla groups, they can't post to the<br>
planet and it becomes just a little more difficult to tell the community<br>
what they're up to. Maybe we could set up a separate fedora-newbie<br>
fedorapeople space where these newbies could add their planet files, if<br>
individual fedorapeople space isn't OK? We'll need to talk to infra<br>
about this.<br></blockquote><div>+1 for the idea. But isn't there an already existing group for Fedora Join ? Can't we use that ?<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
- Make it easy for the entire community to interact with people that<br>
are in the process of joining the community: you just need to query the<br>
group.<br></blockquote><div>+1 <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<br>
- the fedora-join mailing list and IRC channel will be the official<br>
channel for fedora-newbies: fedora-join will be the community side of<br>
this process. We help fedora-newbies with whatever issues they may have.<br>
- fedora-newbies will be required to provide monthly updates: this will<br>
tell us who is active, and who isn't. The FAS can be cleaned up every<br>
six months to remove people who aren't active.<br></blockquote><div>+1, cleaning up is the most crucial part of all this.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
- we could hold bi-weekly fedora-join meetings where newbies can<br>
introduce themselves, and community members can hop in to communicate<br>
with them in a completely informal setting. We could even hold weekly<br>
meetings such that alternate meetings are held in different timezones,<br>
making fedora-join accessible to people around the globe. Community<br>
could each turn up at meetings that fit their timezones.<br></blockquote><div>I think keeping bi-weekly meeting would be sufficient and it would give sufficient time to the newbies as well, to work which they could<br></div>
<div>showcase in the meeting. <br></div><div>But if it's just for the introduction then we could hold a weekly meeting.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<br>
I stole the last few steps from the infra team. I think they have the<br>
best and easiest join process. They create a fi-apperentice group and<br>
give newbies access to some infra that enables them to learn how<br>
fedora-infra works. At each meeting, new people that want to join the<br>
infra team introduce themselves. They send out a "Meeting agenda item:<br>
self introduction: John Doe" e-mail to the mailing list beforehand. Each<br>
month, Kevin starts a thread "Monthly status report for fi-apperentices"<br>
where all group members provide short updates and ask queries etc.<br></blockquote><div>It's true because this helps folks in getting familiar with all the steps to get into the team slowly.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<br>
While people are in the fedora-newbies group, we'll help them join a<br>
team, removing them from the fedora-newbies group once they've been<br>
approved to a team group. The teams can use their FAS groups properly,<br>
to grant infra access. In the mean time, the newbies will still be part<br>
of the community, even if they aren't officially part of any Fedora<br>
teams.<br>
<br>
This will work well for other teams, such as ambassadors: Prospective<br>
ambassadors can communicate with the community while they're still in<br>
the mentorship process. <br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<br>
I would really like to see something of the sort for all of Fedora. The<br>
initial idea was to make Fedora Join the *single* stop for anyone that<br>
wants to join the community. We'll have to communicate with the other<br>
teams, sure, but it's a start.<br>
<br>
Comments? <br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Thanks,<br>
Warm regards,<br>
Ankur (FranciscoD)<br>
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