Fedora 25 Beta Release Readiness Meeting, Thursday, October 6th @ 19:00 UTC
by Jan Kurik
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-2 for the Fedora 25
Beta Release Readiness Meeting meeting.
The meeting is going to be held on Thursday, October 6th, 2016 at
19:00 UTC. Please check the [FedoCal] link for your time zone.
We will meet to make sure we are coordinated and ready for the Beta
release of Fedora 25. Please note that this meeting is going to be
held even if the release is delayed at the Go/No-Go meeting on the
same day two hours earlier.
You may received this message several times, but it is by purpose to
open this meeting to the teams and to raise awareness, so hopefully
more team representatives will come to this meeting. This meeting
works best when we have representatives from all of the teams.
[FedoCal] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/4782/
More information available at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings
Thank you for your support and Regards, Jan
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Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic
7 years, 6 months
[fedora-commops] Issue #92 `Start a yearly Fedora Appreciation Day`
by Pagure
amsharma added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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I was so excited 5 mins back while I was typing text here, but thanks to Pagure to spoil it all when it just killed my excitement by eating all my text when I clicked "Update Issue" here :( Anyways, typing again.
I loved this idea, I have so many people to whom I want to thank. Here are few ideas from my side.
1. I liked the idea of shooting videos. Just to add on that, can we have a repository to collect all these thank you videos. That way anyone who is sitting at home, traveling or anywhere, can just record their thank you video and upload them to the repo link. Commops can own that repo and that way we will have a collection of videos which can be played in the events, published to the fedora magazine etc etc. One person can shoot one video or two people together can have a recording or a bunch of people can record together. Length can be limited to 2-3 mins.
2. This is little different and unique. We can appreciate the person earning the highest number of thanks in terms of badge/text/mail/video. That person can be declared as the star of the Fedora Appreciation Day, 2016 and can be awarded/appreciated by FPL in Flock, 2017.
3. Having local events in good, but let's not just limit it to that. We can have hangouts across the globe and virtual events. We can record the online conversation videos as well.
WOW, I am totally excited about it. I need to start writing my thank you mails from today ;)
and you Parure, I am copying this text in my editor to make sure I have my backup, in case, you ditch me again!
``
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https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/92
7 years, 6 months
[fedora-commops] Issue #78 `Automating a check-in to evaluate activity of members`
by Pagure
jflory7 added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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@dhanesh95 Realize I never replied to you here, my mistake.
>Maybe we can write some tool which will give us some statistics about the contribution activities by the members of the group. Datagrepper can help us with that. This way, we'll not rely on manual confirmation for a mail and we'll also know how many of the group's members are really active. I'm not sure whether this is practically possible to implement but something that crossed my mind. Thoughts?
>
>If this isn't possible then maybe we can resolve that this ticket is a "wontfix".
I think the best solution for this would be to develop an automatic tool that evaluates contributor activity and makes it clear when a contributor has become absent from the community, so we can attempt to do some kind of follow-up. But I think this ticket is really blocking on an automatic tool to do this. For now, I'd rather do it manually.
For that reason, I think I am going to close this ticket as `wontfix` until we have some sort of tool available to harness this. With the size of the CommOps group presently, I'm not that concerned with this as a problem right now.
``
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https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/78
7 years, 6 months
Planning a Fedora Appreciation Day for Nov. 6
by Justin W. Flory
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= QUICK SUMMARY =
=====================================================================
= * What: Creating day for thanking Fedora volunteers/contributors =
= * When: Nov. 6, 2016 (Fedora's anniversary) =
= * Why: Boost community morale and support Fedorans in their work =
= * How: Read wiki page, read ticket, add feedback to ideas =
=====================================================================
Hello everyone!
This topic comes from a ticket in the CommOps Trac that we discussed
during today's CommOps meeting (linked below). Since a lot of people may
be hearing about this for the first time, I will summarize the big
points here in this email. The longer details are in the wiki page and
ticket.
https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/92
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Appreciation_Day
The Fedora Appreciation Day would be a yearly day of thanks dedicated to
the volunteers and contributors that work in the Fedora Project
community. This can be from a development, infrastructure, marketing,
engineering, or any other standpoint. Contributors and users would be
encouraged to spend a small part of their day passing along thanks to
the project community, either to specific people or projects, or to
Fedora as a whole. The idea stems off of a discussion I had with
cprofitt about the Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day.
November 6th is chosen as the date to have the Fedora Appreciation Day
as it marks the anniversary of the Fedora Project, as announced by Bill
Nottingham on November 6, 2003.
We have a number of ideas in place about how to go about planning the
event. An outline is created for how we want to execute organizing and
putting this event together.
1. Create clear guidelines and ways for participants to express
gratitude. Make sure this is somewhere public and open.
2. Communicate ahead of time of the event, as far as one month
ahead of time.
3. Create a "community thank you pad", either as a wiki page or
otherwise, that can serve as a public wall of thanks.
4. Focus on awareness the week leading up to the event so users and
contributors both are aware of the planned event.
5. Monitor what's going on for the day of the event and try to make
observations about the result and impact of the event (e.g.
number of wiki edits on gratitude page, number of karma cookies
given on day, etc.).
We spent a lot of time discussing this in the CommOps meeting today, and
a lot more details are explaining in the comments of the ticket in the
CommOps Pagure.
It would be great to have other feedback to the ideas we are discussing
and hopefully wanting to execute in time for this event! If you have
some time, please review the wiki page and ticket.
Thanks everyone! Really hoping we can work towards making this a
tradition in the community for years to come. :)
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
7 years, 6 months
[fedora-commops] Issue #92 `Start a yearly Fedora Appreciation Day`
by Pagure
jflory7 added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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**Discussed in [2016-10-04 meeting](https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-10-04/comm...
Without a doubt, this was a very hot topic during the meeting today, which is awesome! I'm going to summarize some of the key points we covered.
## Badge
We briefly discussed the idea of having a badge as a "reward" for the event (or something to take with you), but we weren't clear on how to best go about distributing something like that. I'd be lenient to have a badge without having a way that we can clearly grant it to others.
Does anyone have any ideas on how we could distribute to badge to people who spend time thanking another contributor or contributors?
## Community Blog post
I actioned myself to write a Community Blog about this over the coming weekend to announce it to the community, both contributors and users. Some of it will surely be shaped by other discussion that we will happen, but I can get out a first draft hopefully really soon.
## Encouraging local events
Like with [Fedora Women Day 2016](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Women_Day_2016), it would be nice to encourage local communities to have an in-person celebration to commemorate the day. This could be a good way to help build local communities and introduce others into Fedora (since it is the thirteen year anniversary of the project). Some kind of physical / in-person resources would be especially helpful here.
But we also covered the area of trying to use or allocate any budget for this. I'd rather focus spending time and energy on how to make it a successful virtual event because incorporating any funds for this will be a burden (especially one month out), and it might end up just making the event impossible to execute for some. There's also the note that much of the community would likely be unable to participate in a local event, and at the end of the day, I think it's especially important too that we give appreciation and thanks to some of the contributors who may find it difficult to make it out to in-person or physical events, and let them know their work is still greatly appreciated and valued.
## Creating a video
I would consider this a stretch goal, but someone mentioned compiling some sort of short and sweet video to release on the day of, highlighting the community and commemorating the day. I don't have enough video editing experience on Linux to pull something together, but I would be very open to the idea of creating something if there is someone with video experience who could help drive this forward.
## Creating a wall of thanks
I think a big, public wiki page for people to leave general notes or thanks on is a good idea. I debated the idea of an Etherpad and wiki, and I think a wiki would work best since it requires someone to authenticate in FAS… just in case someone random decided to jump into an Etherpad, delete everything, and run off.
We could structure the wiki page with categories for specific sub-projects and have a general area of thanks, or we could just have it as one big, open-ended page.
## New IRC command
So @ankursinha mentioned the idea of this, and then @nb actually made it happen! But we wanted to have an IRC command to help encourage and make it easier for people to give thanks to other contributors. On the spot, we created a `.thank` command that you can use to accomplish this. To thank another contributor in IRC, try the following:
<pre><jflory7> .thank nb
<zodbot> jflory7 thinks nb is awesome and is happy they are helping! (Please don't forget to nb++ also)</pre>
## Social media presence
A social media presence will also be helpful for this event. I think a short and sweet hashtag would be fine, maybe #FedoraAppreciation? I'm trying to think if there might be something more unique we can use, because I'm worried about overlap with any appreciation for actual fedoras. :stuck_out_tongue:
## Streaming / interviews
@rhea mentioned the idea of helping set up a live stream or interview series during the week that we could run with Fedora contributors to talk a little bit about the type of work they do, why they contribute, who they want to thank, etc. Something short and sweet, but definitely personal and hopefully putting faces to nicks. I think this is a good idea to help support the idea of a united Fedora community if we can pull it off. I'm not that experienced in streaming, so I would be interested in knowing what kind of technical setup someone might need if we wanted to include them.
## Improving visibility
@ankursinha rightfully noted that some parts of the project are a lot less visible than others, and there could be an issue with some core parts of the project and community members involved there who may not be recognized for their work. While I think it's impossible to guarantee that _everyone_ will be thanked for something, I think we can make it easier for people to know who to thank for what.
For example, you might not ever think of the people who create the FAS login with Ipsilon, but that's a core thing that everyone in Fedora has used. If you were to explicitly mention "here are the people who make the FAS login system run everyday!" and point to an IRC channel or specific nicks, it would make it easier for people to say, "Oh, so _that's_ who makes this happen!"
Perhaps on the Fedora Appreciation Day page (or maybe its own page), we can do a best attempt at highlighting various parts of the project that may not normally be thought of.
----
Okay, phew! I think I covered everything here from the meeting. I'm going to be following up shortly with a mailing list introduction of this idea to hopefully bring more people into this discussion and get some more ideas flowing. It's important we act swiftly on this one as we're working against a one month timer. :grin:
## CC
@bex @cprofitt @skamath @dhanesh95 @adityakonarde @ankursinha @rhea @x3mboy @bt0dotninja @amsharma @tatica @bee2502
``
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https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/92
7 years, 6 months
Re: [fedora-badges] #464: CommOps Onboarding Series Badge
by fedora-badges
#464: CommOps Onboarding Series Badge
-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------
Reporter: skamath | Owner:
Type: New badge | a2batic
idea | Status:
Priority: minor | assigned
Keywords: commops | Resolution:
Has a description: 1 | Has a name:
Artwork status: Proposed | 1
External requirements: | Concept approved (reviewers only):
Triaged (triagers only): 1 | 1
| Badge definition status:
| Full, needs review
| Manually awarded:
| 0
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Changes (by jflory7):
* owner: skamath => a2batic
* status: new => assigned
* has_artwork: Concept => Proposed
Comment:
I missed the previous comment here! Seems like a start in the right
direction to me – maybe some of the other Badges team can leave some
comments and feedback here? :)
--
Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/ticket/464#comment:5>
fedora-badges <https://badges.fedoraproject.org>
A place to collect and debate badge ideas for the Fedora Badges app
7 years, 6 months
[fedora-commops] Issue #90 `Improving Fedora Elections Process.`
by Pagure
jflory7 added a new comment to an issue you are following:
``
**Discussed in [2016-10-04 meeting](https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-10-04/comm...
We briefly covered this ticket and encouraged other participants to review and add feedback here as necessary (e.g. @ankursinha as a former Election wrangler). Since most of the details of this ticket will focus on the communication aspect of the Election, I'm going to remove this ticket from the meeting agenda for the time being.
One thing that I would like to drive further is how we can work on automating some of the tasks relating to communication to improve community participation in each release cycle. Last year's December election clearly showed the results of our work, and if we are timely and on top of election-related communication, I think we can continue on improving participation numbers.
The topic of election automation is specifically covered in #19. I would like to discuss the idea of developing tools for these tasks further. /me is probably not the best person to consider the technical side for ideas like this.
``
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7 years, 6 months
