Idea: Fedora Contributor Classrooms
by Justin W. Flory
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= Quick Summary =
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1) Online university meets contributing to Fedora (kind of)
2) Join process: Move from wiki to more modern + centralized "course"
3) Improve process to jumpstart new contributors
4) Four main questions to answer
5) Opinions / thoughts very welcome *
* Longer email, but worth the read!
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Hello all,
This idea originates from a discussion Gabri (mailga) and I had in
#fedora-join today.
Gabri pointed out the availability of a variety of different "online
classroom" type of applications or websites. They're pretty commons
nowadays, with things like Udemy or Coursera being used to let people
take full-fledged courses in any subject they want (sometimes at a cost,
sometimes not).
The article that started this discussion can be found here:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/02/seven-free-platforms-for-teachin...
It's easy for someone to create a "course" in anything and set up a
series of lessons or classes for their course. They can be in different
formats depending on what suits the topic best.
The connection of this to Fedora that Gabri pointed out is that it may
be something to look into to have a "Becoming a Fedora Contributor"
course in an environment like one of these. The purpose of doing this
would be to create a "curriculum" of the tools, resources, and
information needed to be jumpstarted as a Fedora contributor.
There could be a general course with a few different lessons of
different things in Fedora, and then perhaps subgroup-specific lessons
about how to get started with a specific subgroup, e.g. Design, Kernel,
Marketing, Packaging, CommOps, etc…
This would intend to replace the often decentralized wiki articles that
accomplish the same thing. As it is becoming more well-known, the wiki
is sometimes a difficult place to store useful information because it
can be so difficult to navigate. Most subgroups have some sort of
"Joining" series on the wiki, but finding all the pages can sometimes be
a challenge.
The needs for something like this would be as follows:
1) Create a series of "lessons" for newcomers to follow in order to be
"ready" to contribute to what interests them
2) Courses / lessons easy to update and keep current with the fast-paced
speed of Fedora
Gabri also linked this article which may of use of finding a platform we
like, should this be something we are interested in:
http://blog.capterra.com/top-8-freeopen-source-lmss/
However, to the point - now what? There's a few questions I think we
need to answer?
1) Is this something we think would be useful to pursue?
2) If so, what is the scope we want to pursue? Start small and see if
it works well, then try a wider adoption?
3) Is this something we would have as a long-term goal for 2016 for
every subgroup to try to adopt (with the assistance of CommOps)?
4) Are there any downsides that stand out by trying to pursue an
online "contributor classroom" sort of style versus using the wiki?
I think these are the core questions we need to answer to move forward.
This may be an interesting discussion topic for a meeting if there is
support for the idea.
And Gabri, feel free to chime in and add anything in case I missed
something. :)
Interested to hear your thoughts!
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
7 years, 11 months
Wiki banner artwork
by Justin W. Flory
Hello all,
mleonova just uploaded the initial draft of the CommOps wiki banner.
Most of the discussion for the design happened in the ticket for the
Trac logo, so this should be an easy one to look at. It uses the same
style of logo as we decided for the Trac banner.
Please take a moment to look at the ticket and give some feedback on the
banner if any. Thanks!
https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/416#comment:5
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
7 years, 11 months
CommOps Weekly Meeting Recap 2016-01-05
by Justin W. Flory
Today's meeting was low attendance as we get back from the holidays, but
there's a lot of things lining up for January, and it's looking this
month will be a hot start to the New Year. :)
Meeting ended Tue Jan 5 17:52:00 2016 UTC.
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2016-01-05/fedora_commo...
Minutes (text):
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2016-01-05/fedora_commo...
Log:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2016-01-05/fedora_commo...
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#fedora-meeting-2: Fedora CommOps
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Meeting started by decause at 17:02:19 UTC. The full logs are available
at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2016-01-05/fedora_commo...
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Meeting summary
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* Agenda (decause, 17:02:31)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:CommOps_2016-01-05
(decause, 17:02:40)
* RollCall (decause, 17:03:01)
* decause; UTC-5; Ambassadors, Council, Commops, * (decause,
17:03:42)
* bee2502 ; UTC+5.30 ; Metrics ,Elections , CommOps (bee2502|here,
17:04:50)
* Tickets (decause, 17:05:57)
* === Ticket #7 - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-commops/ticket/7 ===
(decause, 17:06:06)
* Justin W. Flory; UTC-5; CommOps / Marketing / Join / etc. (jflory7,
17:06:06)
* * Fedora Elections and CommOps Coverage (decause, 17:06:18)
* Fedora Elections and CommOps Coverage (decause, 17:06:25)
* === Ticket #8 - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-commops/ticket/8 ===
(decause, 17:08:01)
* CommBlog Article: Flock Call for Bids (decause, 17:08:30)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flock2016-Krakow-proposal
(decause, 17:09:17)
* === Ticket #16 - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-commops/ticket/16
=== (decause, 17:12:22)
* Assist with Post Election Tasks (decause, 17:12:32)
* AGREED: close ticket #16 (decause, 17:14:01)
* === #Ticket #20 - https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-commops/ticket/20
=== (decause, 17:14:14)
* Year in Review - CommOps Retrospective (decause, 17:14:29)
* ACTION: decause check in on the YiR Commops post for CommBlog tomo
(decause, 17:15:57)
* LINK: http://etherpad.osuosl.org/fedora-commops-yir-2015 (decause,
17:16:33)
* Wiki Gardening (decause, 17:19:22)
* ACTION: NewMembers Add your timezone / interests on CommOps Wiki [
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps ] (decause, 17:19:27)
* Community Blog (CommBlog) (decause, 17:22:29)
* * Share your "Year in Review" with Fedora (jflory7, 17:22:49)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/share-your-year-in-review-with-fe...
(jflory7, 17:22:54)
* Total Views: 206 (Dec. 17 to Jan. 2) (jflory7, 17:22:59)
* ACTION: jflory7 Send mail to social-media list about Flock bids
article + Year in Review announcement (jflory7, 17:25:02)
* * Christmas update of Fedora Developer Portal (jflory7, 17:25:47)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/christmas-update-fedora-developer...
(jflory7, 17:25:52)
* Total Views: 118 (Dec. 21 to Jan. 2) (jflory7, 17:25:57)
* * Fedora Globalization (G11n) Activity Day – November 2015
(jflory7, 17:26:02)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-globalization-g11n-activit...
(jflory7, 17:26:07)
* Total Views: 16 (Dec. 28 to Jan. 2) (jflory7, 17:26:12)
* === Coming Up in CommBlog === (jflory7, 17:26:31)
* * "Top Badgers" of 2015 (jflory7, 17:26:35)
* Four articles ready to go about the top badge earners of Fedora in
2015 - ideally, best to publish weekly / twice weekly? Let's agree
on a publishing schedule. (jflory7, 17:26:39)
* Anisha Narang's article about Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in
Computing 2015 (jflory7, 17:26:49)
* LINK: https://anishanarang.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/ghc-2015/
(jflory7, 17:26:56)
* ACTION: jflory7 Also, include Fedora G11n Activity Day article when
mailing social-media list (jflory7, 17:27:55)
* ACTION: jflory7 Follow up on Marketing 2016 meeting time and try to
come to a date / time (jflory7, 17:30:10)
* ACTION: decause/jflory7 calendar no-go blocks for mktg meetings in
2016 (decause, 17:31:05)
* ACTION: jflory7 Schedule all "Top Badgers" articles for Thursdays @
8:00 UTC (jflory7, 17:35:30)
* ACTION: jflory7 Draft pointer article about Anisha's blog post about
Grace Hopkins - tie-in with Outreachy / mention Women in Computing /
etc. (jflory7, 17:36:04)
* ACTION: jflory7 Get quote from tatica for CommBlog article too -
maybe make it a broader post about Women in Computing + Fedora in
general? Will see what we have to work with! (jflory7, 17:37:56)
* ACTION: bee2502 create metrics for Women in Computing , Outreachy
(bee2502|here, 17:39:15)
* ACTION: jflory7 Draft outline / rough rough draft of Women in
Computing article and share with CommOps list for feedback
(jflory7, 17:42:50)
* This would supersede the pointer article mentioned previously about
Anisha's blog post - it would be included but would be a part of a
bigger article (jflory7, 17:43:22)
* ===== (jflory7, 17:45:33)
* Topic: 5tftw (jflory7, 17:45:41)
* Things will be a little slow coming out of the New Year, so new
topics might be hard to find. CommBlog had a few articles go up over
the holiday, so there are a few things to grab from. (jflory7,
17:46:10)
* ACTION: CommOps Add to the 5tftw Etherpad if you see a hot topic to
cover in the next article by mattdm (jflory7, 17:46:50)
* ===== (jflory7, 17:46:54)
* Topic: Meeting Times in 2016 (jflory7, 17:47:07)
* Discussed earlier in meeting. Same meeting time and place for 2016.
Previous concern was FAmSCo meeting time, but #fedora-meeting-1 is
open at this time too, so there is space available. (jflory7,
17:47:33)
* ===== (jflory7, 17:47:45)
* Topic: Open Floor (jflory7, 17:47:50)
Meeting ended at 17:52:00 UTC.
Action Items
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* decause check in on the YiR Commops post for CommBlog tomo
* NewMembers Add your timezone / interests on CommOps Wiki [
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps ]
* jflory7 Send mail to social-media list about Flock bids article + Year
in Review announcement
* jflory7 Also, include Fedora G11n Activity Day article when mailing
social-media list
* jflory7 Follow up on Marketing 2016 meeting time and try to come to a
date / time
* decause/jflory7 calendar no-go blocks for mktg meetings in 2016
* jflory7 Schedule all "Top Badgers" articles for Thursdays @ 8:00 UTC
* jflory7 Draft pointer article about Anisha's blog post about Grace
Hopkins - tie-in with Outreachy / mention Women in Computing / etc.
* jflory7 Get quote from tatica for CommBlog article too - maybe make it
a broader post about Women in Computing + Fedora in general? Will see
what we have to work with!
* bee2502 create metrics for Women in Computing , Outreachy
* jflory7 Draft outline / rough rough draft of Women in Computing
article and share with CommOps list for feedback
* CommOps Add to the 5tftw Etherpad if you see a hot topic to cover in
the next article by mattdm
Action Items, by person
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* decause
* decause check in on the YiR Commops post for CommBlog tomo
* decause/jflory7 calendar no-go blocks for mktg meetings in 2016
* jflory7
* jflory7 Send mail to social-media list about Flock bids article +
Year in Review announcement
* jflory7 Also, include Fedora G11n Activity Day article when mailing
social-media list
* jflory7 Follow up on Marketing 2016 meeting time and try to come to
a date / time
* decause/jflory7 calendar no-go blocks for mktg meetings in 2016
* jflory7 Schedule all "Top Badgers" articles for Thursdays @ 8:00 UTC
* jflory7 Draft pointer article about Anisha's blog post about Grace
Hopkins - tie-in with Outreachy / mention Women in Computing / etc.
* jflory7 Get quote from tatica for CommBlog article too - maybe make
it a broader post about Women in Computing + Fedora in general? Will
see what we have to work with!
* jflory7 Draft outline / rough rough draft of Women in Computing
article and share with CommOps list for feedback
* **UNASSIGNED**
* NewMembers Add your timezone / interests on CommOps Wiki [
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps ]
* bee2502 create metrics for Women in Computing , Outreachy
* CommOps Add to the 5tftw Etherpad if you see a hot topic to cover in
the next article by mattdm
People Present (lines said)
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* jflory7 (132)
* decause (111)
* bee2502|here (27)
* zodbot (7)
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7 years, 11 months
"Top Badgers" of 2015
by Justin W. Flory
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= Quick Summary =
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1) "Top Badgers" of 2015 are interviews with top badge earners of 2015
2) Four articles currently ready, can be published any time
3) Next meeting: Determine publishing schedule?
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Hello all,
This was originally brought up at our last meeting as something I wanted
to take on. I emailed the top 5 badge earners of 2015 about the badges
they earned, what they thought was the easiest and the hardest, and any
advice they might have for ambitious newcomers in search of badges.
There are currently four articles prepared and ready to be published.
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pen...
I think it would be best to schedule these either one or two a week, so
we can get them all out by the end of the month. I have one person who
hasn't replied yet, but as of now, I think it's safe to say that the
four articles will be the quota.
I was hoping to bring this up at our next meeting and decide on a
publishing schedule.
Thanks!
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
7 years, 11 months
Meeting Agenda, 2016-01-05
by Justin W. Flory
Hello all,
Happy New Year!
As a friendly reminder, we will be resuming our regular meeting times
this Tuesday, January 5th, 2016. Meeting time is at 17:00 UTC.
Next week's meeting agenda is prepared, but feel free to add topics or
bullets as necessary.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:CommOps_2016-01-05
I am unsure if I will be able to make this meeting as of now - if I am,
I likely will be coming in a little bit late.
See you all soon!
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
7 years, 11 months
