Hey Kevin, folks,
On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 16:43 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:59:07 +0530 Ankur Sinha sanjay.ankur@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
As the subject says, I'm interested in extending the
fedora-classroom
project.
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Well, I'm not sure it's too good a fit name/mission wise. I think of classrooms as more "here's a teacher and here's a lesson" rather than a 'here's a place you can find out more about where to go and what to do'
I understand. I was initially thinking of setting up a different independently channel, which is how this proposal[1] came about.
I noticed that the classroom list isn't used a lot, neither is the channel, so I thought I'd first see if extending this already in-place infra would do the job :)
One of the questions that you'd probably ask is: what's wrong with folks just joining up the various mailing lists and getting started? Quite a bit:
- A lot of new contributors aren't sure of what sig they'd like to
start in. IMO, it would be helpful if some of the community were available to guide them and help them make a decision 2. The various mailing lists are dedicated to work. They're not
really
meant for mentoring purposes. We wouldn't like a flood of potential contributors emailing the lists asking for guidance. 3. We also have askfedora and the user mailing lists. However, I
feel
these are dedicated to troubleshooting.
I agree.
Great :)
So, what d'ya folks think? :)
Well, I wonder if this couldn't be more a 'fedora welcome' or 'information desk' or something. I guess it doesn't matter what it's called...
Aye. However, I'd prefer we have an informal name. It doesn't matter to us really, but a fun, informal name would help new comers IMO. Gnome-love sounds good, I'm sure we can think up something similar.
fedora-friends fedora-join fedora-join-us fedora-newbies new-to-fedora/new-2-fedora fedstart fedora-start fedora-???
Any fun names? Maybe I can nudge the marketing/design/ambassador lists for more?
Basically a place we could point anyone who says they want to give back and join up, then they could ask questions and get an idea of where to go and who to talk to before just wandering around.
I like the idea, but not sure how much it overlaps with classrooms.
I agree. I just thought that the new infra we're setting up is about guiding folks, and it's what the classroom lists etc are broadly set up to do :)
So, you think we should set up a completely separate list and IRC channel for this then? Another "fedora $fun-name SIG" sort of thing?
kevin