Readying the Fedora Join channels to receive newcomers
by Ankur Sinha
Hiya!
I've sent this out to the announce mailing list, and a post on the
commblog is scheduled to go live on November 10 too. Please spread the
word :)
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Hello everyone,
Like any FOSS community project, Fedora relies heavily on volunteers.
It is, therefore, no surprise that we're always looking to increase our
contributor base. There is always so much to be done. Of course, many
teams work in harmony to keep Fedora ticking. Each team tends to have
its own "on-boarding process" for newcomers, which if you've been
around recently, you'll have noticed CommOps[0] has been working on
improving one by one.
Where do we point newcomers now?
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We already have some tools that help people find the right team and
task to get started with. whatcanidoforfedora.org[1], for example, does
an excellent job of matching people to the right team based on
their skills and interests. Another great place to quickly find
something easy to work on is our easy fix ticket list[2]. Last, but not
least, the new Fedora Hubs project[3], which is still a work in
progress, is going to make it even easier to see what's going on in the
community and where one can pitch in.
Talking to a human
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In spite of all the tooling, newcomers seem to respond better to human
interaction. Integration is much easier when you have people to speak
to or query. Even while they're still picking up on the tools and
processes of various teams, they already feel part of the community. It
gives them that bit of confidence needed to actively take part in
discussions or volunteer to take up tasks.
With this in mind, some of us came together to set up the Fedora Join
SIG[4]. Our goal? Simply to set up certain channels where newcomers and
contributors can mix. We've started small with the usual IRC and
mailing list.
- #fedora-join on Freenode[5]
- fedora-join AT lists.fedoraproject.org[6]
We need your help too!
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Before we begin tweaking our public-facing resources to funnel
newcomers into these channels, we want to make sure that we have enough
contributors available here to receive queries. The purpose of this e-
mail is to ask you to please add these channels to the list that you
already monitor. The more contributors from different parts of the
project we have in the channel, the higher the chances are of newcomers
finding interesting people to work with, interesting things to work on,
all while making friends who mostly outlast the Fedora release.
So, please do hang out in our IRC channel and mailing list to help
newcomers when you can.
Tip: Most IRC clients let you monitor a channel for keywords. For
example, in irssi[7], the following command would monitor the channel
for the word "design":
/hilight -channels #fedora-join design
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps
[1] http://whatcanidoforfedora.org/
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/easyfix
[3] https://pagure.io/fedora-hubs
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG
[5] https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#fedora-join
[6] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/fedora-join@lists.fedoraproje...
[7] https://irssi.org/
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Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
7 years, 5 months
[Minutes] [2016-11-01] Dotnet SIG, Elections, EDU Talking Points
by Justin W. Flory
Hey all, sorry again I missed today, and also a big thanks to Radka for
chairing today's meeting! In the meeting, the tickets for the Dotnet SIG
on-boarding, explaining the elections roles more effectively, and the
EDU talking points were reviewed. Feel free to read over the minutes
below. Thanks everyone!
* * * * *
Minutes:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-11-01/commops.2016-...
Minutes (text):
https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-11-01/commops.2...
Log:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-11-01/commops.2016-...
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#fedora-meeting: Fedora CommOps (2016-11-01)
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Meeting started by Rhea at 16:29:25 UTC. The full logs are available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-11-01/commops.2016-...
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Meeting summary
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* Agenda (Rhea, 16:30:11)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:CommOps_2016-11-01
(Rhea, 16:30:25)
* (1) Roll Call / Q&A (Rhea, 16:30:29)
* (2) Announcements (Rhea, 16:30:32)
* (3) Action items from last meeting (Rhea, 16:30:35)
* (4) Tickets (Rhea, 16:30:38)
* (5) Community Blog (Rhea, 16:30:42)
* (6) Release Schedule (Rhea, 16:30:46)
* (7) Open Floor (Rhea, 16:30:51)
* Roll Call / Q&A (Rhea, 16:31:00)
* Name; Timezone; Sub-projects/Interest Areas (Rhea, 16:31:09)
* ACTION: commops New members, make sure you introduce yourself on the
CommOps mailing list [ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps/Join ]
(Rhea, 16:31:15)
* Radka Janek; UTC+1; CommOps, Diversity, DotNet,... (Rhea, 16:31:35)
* Ankur Sinha (UTC/GMT) - Packaging, Fedora Join, something something
something :) (FranciscoD, 16:31:48)
* Alberto Rodriguez; UTC-6; metrics, commops, infra, etc (bt0,
16:32:35)
* Announcements (Rhea, 16:34:51)
* === "Fedora at LinuxCon Europe 2016" === (Rhea, 16:35:05)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-linuxcon-europe-2016
(Rhea, 16:35:07)
* The Fedora community did not miss this years LinuxCon Europe either,
which took place on Oct 4-6. (Rhea, 16:35:12)
* === "Flock Stories 2016, Episode 1: Redon Skikuli" === (Rhea,
16:35:57)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/flock-stories-2016-redon-skikuli
(Rhea, 16:36:00)
* Flock Stories podcast interviewed Redon Skikuli. (Rhea, 16:36:06)
* Fedora 25 Final Freeze today (FranciscoD, 16:36:13)
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/25/Schedule (FranciscoD,
16:36:29)
* Fedora 25 switchable graphics Test Day this Thursday, 2016-11-03
(FranciscoD, 16:36:44)
*
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2016-11-03_BetterSwitchableGraphi...
(FranciscoD, 16:36:53)
* Readying the Fedora Join channels to receive newcomers (FranciscoD,
16:37:00)
*
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/announce@lists.fedoraprojec...
(FranciscoD, 16:37:21)
* === "FOSS Wave: Indore, India" === (Rhea, 16:38:51)
* LINK: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/foss-wave-indore-india
(Rhea, 16:38:53)
* FOSS Wave and Mozilla Indore community conducted an event at the
Indian Institute of Technology in Indore, India on 24th September
2016 (Rhea, 16:38:56)
* Action items from last meeting (Rhea, 16:40:23)
* LINK:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-10-25/commops.2016-...
(Rhea, 16:40:24)
* How This Works: We look at past #action items from the last meeting
for quick follow-up. If a task is completed, we move on to the next
one. If it isn't, we get an update and re-action it if needed. If no
status, we'll try to get a quick update and move forward. (Rhea,
16:40:33)
* === [INCOMPLETE] jflory7 Open up discussion about Fedora
Appreciation Day date on the mailing list === (Rhea, 16:40:54)
* ACTION: jflory7 Open up discussion about Fedora Appreciation Day
date on the mailing list (Rhea, 16:40:55)
* === [INCOMPLETE] jflory7 Take the discussion points from today's
meeting, lay out the earlier problems, expand on solutions, and try
to offer mock implementations in the Marketing ticket === (Rhea,
16:41:12)
* ACTION: jflory7 Take the discussion points from today's meeting, lay
out the earlier problems, expand on solutions, and try to offer mock
implementations in the Marketing ticket (Rhea, 16:41:14)
* === [COMPLETE] jflory7 Process and review pending Community Blog
articles for publishing === (Rhea, 16:41:22)
* All pending posts processed and scheduled (Rhea, 16:41:24)
* === [INCOMPLETE] jflory7 Post to the mailing list breaking down how
to help with Ticket #93 === (Rhea, 16:41:56)
* ACTION: jflory7 Post to the mailing list breaking down how to help
with Ticket #93 (Rhea, 16:41:58)
* === [COMPLETE] Rhea File ticket in CommOps Pagure for on-boarding
help with Dotnet SIG, particular to: (1) what you have created, (2)
things you think would be helpful, and (3) areas you think could use
some extra brainstorming or thinking from others === (Rhea,
16:42:07)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/95 (Rhea, 16:42:09)
* Tickets (Rhea, 16:42:46)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issues?tags=meeting (Rhea,
16:42:49)
* === Ticket #95 === (Rhea, 16:42:58)
* "[Onboarding Series] DotNet SIG" (Rhea, 16:43:00)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/95 (Rhea, 16:43:04)
* Rhea filed the ticket about the dotnet SIG describing the current
state and raising some questions that should be answered. (Rhea,
16:44:34)
* Current state of the sig is that the Mailing list, FAS group and IRC
channel are in place, the time for the first meeting is set for this
Friday, where we should discuss our next steps and long-term goals.
(Rhea, 16:45:54)
* ACTION: Rhea Update the #95 ticket after the first dotnet meeting
(Rhea, 16:46:40)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/95 (Rhea, 16:46:44)
* The creation of the group was announced on the Fedora devel and mono
mailing lists, and RedHats dotnet mailing list. (Rhea, 16:47:59)
* Agenda for the first dotnet meeting is to set up long-term goals,
near-future goals, discuss contents of dotnet wiki pages, and decide
where to begin. (Rhea, 16:50:17)
* === Ticket #93 === (Rhea, 16:53:30)
* "Elections: Better explain roles of Council and FESCo" (Rhea,
16:53:32)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/93 (Rhea, 16:53:41)
* As part of the Elections discussion in #90, it would be helpful to
better explain the roles of the Fedora Council and FESCo to motivate
new candidates to run for election. (Rhea, 16:53:45)
* HELP: This ticket could use someone to help lead efforts on
communicating with members of each body, coming up with ways to
better communicate a list of tasks and responsibilities, possibly
help write a blog post about these, and help communicate them
leading up to the election. The intended impact is to increase the
number of nominees for election. (Rhea, 16:59:28)
* ACTION: FranciscoD work on "Review existing roles and
responsibilities of committees, find any other places where their
roles may be explained (wiki pages, personal blog posts, etc.)."
(FranciscoD, 17:05:10)
* IDEA: Invite representatives to sit in on the commops meeting for
15th or 22nd November (Rhea, 17:05:22)
* FranciscoD welcomes help with task "Review existing roles and
responsibilities of committees, find any other places where their
roles may be explained (wiki pages, personal blog posts, etc.)."
(FranciscoD, 17:05:51)
* IDEA: Each volunteer focus on one committee - it'll make thing
easier and ensure that we don't die of confusion (FranciscoD,
17:06:33)
* === Ticket #44 === (Rhea, 17:08:16)
* "Talking Points: EDU" (Rhea, 17:08:18)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/44 (Rhea, 17:08:27)
* Resuming previous discussion about generating talking points about
EDU outreach by Fedorans in academic settings. Talking points would
make it easier for a student, faculty, or staff member at a school
to help promote Fedora among their peers or in the university
itself. (Rhea, 17:08:37)
* Community Blog (Rhea, 17:12:17)
* Rhea is a huge slacker and doesn't have anything for this. (Rhea,
17:12:32)
* Release Schedule (Rhea, 17:13:40)
* LINK:
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-25/f-25-key-tasks.html
(Rhea, 17:13:42)
* Final freeze today. (Rhea, 17:13:49)
* Open Floor (Rhea, 17:14:05)
Meeting ended at 17:16:54 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* commops New members, make sure you introduce yourself on the CommOps
mailing list [ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps/Join ]
* jflory7 Open up discussion about Fedora Appreciation Day date on the
mailing list
* jflory7 Take the discussion points from today's meeting, lay out the
earlier problems, expand on solutions, and try to offer mock
implementations in the Marketing ticket
* jflory7 Post to the mailing list breaking down how to help with Ticket
#93
* Rhea Update the #95 ticket after the first dotnet meeting
* FranciscoD work on "Review existing roles and responsibilities of
committees, find any other places where their roles may be explained
(wiki pages, personal blog posts, etc.)."
Action Items, by person
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* commops
* commops New members, make sure you introduce yourself on the CommOps
mailing list [ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps/Join ]
* FranciscoD
* FranciscoD work on "Review existing roles and responsibilities of
committees, find any other places where their roles may be explained
(wiki pages, personal blog posts, etc.)."
* Rhea
* Rhea Update the #95 ticket after the first dotnet meeting
* **UNASSIGNED**
* jflory7 Open up discussion about Fedora Appreciation Day date on the
mailing list
* jflory7 Take the discussion points from today's meeting, lay out the
earlier problems, expand on solutions, and try to offer mock
implementations in the Marketing ticket
* jflory7 Post to the mailing list breaking down how to help with
Ticket #93
People Present (lines said)
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* Rhea (128)
* FranciscoD (45)
* bt0 (12)
* zodbot (8)
* commops (0)
* dhanesh95 (0)
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
7 years, 5 months
Need meeting chair
by Justin W. Flory
Hello all,
Due to unforeseen circumstances, I will not be able to attend the
meeting time tomorrow. Is there anyone else available who might be able
to chair the meeting? I can still help prepare the meeting agenda, but I
will not be able to be in channel during the meeting.
Thanks!
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
7 years, 5 months
