[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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> I see nothing driving me toward any particular day in July. However, I'd encourage a quick search of global holiday calendars to make sure you won't hit a golden week or something similar. My quick search showed the most holidays in the first 10 days or so of July. Therefore, In the absence of anything else, I suggest the 2nd-last weeks for consideration,
Okay. For now, we can tentatively aim for the last two weeks of July for a rough deadline for this.
> I encourage you to start drafting the material now. I suspect it will take longer than you think to finalize once people start offering feedback.
I agree. I'm going to make a note for creating a draft of this for after DevConf / FOSDEM (after Feb. 5th). We can probably add this ticket back to the meeting agenda then too so we can discuss and evaluate this again as a group.
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7 years, 3 months
Re: [Fedora-join] Fedora Join Stage 2
by Justin W. Flory
On 01/18/2017 02:41 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> I hope everyone had a good holiday. I'm still on a vacation of sorts,
> but since most folks are back, I thought I'd get the ball rolling ASAP.
> So here it is:
>
Hey Ankur, thanks for getting the ball rolling. I think many of us have
been having a busy start to 2017, which might attribute to some of the
quietness.
> Fedora Join stage 2
> ###################
>
> Objective
> ----------
>
> The objective of this stage is to carry on from stage 1 (making Fedora
> Join visible to the community). In stage 1, we published and announced
> on the community channels - the community blog, the announce mailing
> list. The intention was to make the community aware that we are
> preparing a channel where newbies and community members can interact.
>
> In stage 2, now that we've the channels and some community members
> ready to help, we announce the channels to the public. So, in a
> sentence, stage 2 says "Tell the world about Fedora Join!".
>
> How
> ###
>
> We'll need to use the public facing channels for this one.
> Announcements should go out on these:
>
> - Fedora magazine
> - Users mailing list
> - Web forums:
> - Ask Fedora
> - Fedoraforum.org
>
Something that Brian Exelbierd and I have been discussing is the idea of
a "Help Wanted Wednesday" series either on the Community Blog or Fedora
Magazine. The idea of this would be to highlight some "easyfix" sort of
tasks that we could wave newcomers towards when they ask about something
to get started with.
Additionally, the motive behind this effort wasn't to have contributors
scouting out easyfix tickets, but rather, to have contributors bring
them to the team / group that would compile the series. This way, the
stress isn't loaded onto a small number of people, but rather, multiple
people from various parts of the community would be motivated to bring
their easyfix tickets or issues to us so that way they can gain
interested newcomers to their parts of the project.
This idea is hardly fleshed out or discussed much, but perhaps this is
something we could try to make a goal for the Join SIG or work closely
with CommOps to make it happen.
If we have active folks in other parts of Fedora, like the Fedora
Forums, Reddit, or more places, we can encourage them to share these
posts there. And there could be a tie-in to promote the Join SIG as the
"go-to" place if you have problems or questions while getting started.
> - It'll be awesome if we can add a note about Fedora Join on wcidff
> too. I'd opened a ticket long ago here already: https://github.com/fedo
> ra-infra/asknot-ng/issues/75
>
> Are there any other channels that we can use to make ourselves more
> visible outside the community?
>
I definitely think Telegram has a strong potential, especially the
unofficial Fedora group. It is larger than our IRC channel by the
hundreds – we're close to hitting the 700 member mark soon. I also think
there is a notable number of folks there who are interested in
contributing, but might need to be reeled in or given direction to get
started. Finding a way to target this group of users could be a good idea.
Other platforms we could use would be social media accounts and Reddit.
There's probably more too, if I went digging for a bit.
>
> Other stuff
> ###########
>
> Here are some other things we've discussed in the past. Please feel
> free to add more, and chime in with your views (start new threads
> too!). Think of these as ideas for the long term?
>
> - Mentoring
>
> I think a lot of us want to bring this back, but we're still to settle
> on how we'd match newbies to mentors and so on. Keeping in mind that
> mentoring existed before and died out, it'll be nice if we can come up
> with a sustainable process. An important part of this is ensuring that
> we constantly have new newbies and new mentors coming in so that the
> overall numbers remain constant from cycle to cycle, year to year.
>
I definitely think the ultimate priority for discussing this should be
making it sustainable. I love the idea of a mentoring program, but as
past experiences has shown us, people get burnt out and we don't have a
good way of bringing in more mentors. This could be a good goal for a
next meeting (I know we've fallen off a bit with them, but we should
definitely get the ball rolling again once you're back on a regular
schedule, Ankur).
> - Web stuff (requires input from the websites and design teams, at
> least)
>
> I still think a nice web overview of the community would give people
> outside the community a good insight into our interactions, and in
> turn, this would make it easier for them to join us. What do folks
> think of modifying fedoracommunity.org to depict the community in
> different views:
>
> - by roles
> - by teams
> - by region
>
> At the moment, it feels like it's limited to ambassadors only, and only
> serves to collect regional websites.
>
> (I suggest modifying fedoracommunity.org instead of setting up a new
> join.fp.o as before because the general feeling in the community seems
> to be that we already have too many web resources and any more are
> either surplus or unmanageable.)
>
I like this idea as well, but I'm wondering if this is something we will
be able to feasibly pull off. I'm leaning towards saying this is
something to place onto the backburner and revisit after we reach some
of the other goals mentioned above.
> - Classrooms
>
> Anyone for bringing these back? They were great to get folks started (I
> started contributing through a font packaging classroom session
> myself!).
>
Personally, I love the idea and think we could pull this off if we have
some clear on-boarding for existing contributors to run a classroom
without too much effort. Fedora Infrastructure already has a "Learn it!"
part of their agenda, where a member can volunteer to use part of the
meeting to explain a new concept and have other Infra members ask
questions. Patrick Uiterwijk did an excellent one on some of the
authentication tools used in Fedora, so it could be a good idea to warm
up with them with some of the ones from the past in Infra.
In either case, getting some sort of "classroom how-to" is definitely an
attainable goal for the coming month or two, and perhaps we could try to
set a deadline for when we would want to try attempting the next classroom.
> So, what do we do next?
> ########################
>
> It'll be great if we can discuss these on the ML to begin with, and
> then follow the usual "ticket-meeting-task-repeat" system over pagure?
>
I apologize for the slow response here. Keeping up over the holidays was
more difficult than I anticipated and I'm still getting unburied from
late December / early January emails. But I should start being a little
more present in coming weeks, especially after FOSDEM concludes on Feb. 5th.
Thanks for your time writing this all up, Ankur! Hope you had an
excellent holiday and New Year as well.
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
7 years, 3 months
[Minutes] [2017-01-17] Elections results & FOSDEM
by Radka Janekova
Hi Team! =)
Below you can find minutes from the last meeting, please go through that if
you missed the meeting.
Minutes:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-01-17/commops.2017-...
Minutes (text):
https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-01-17/commops.2...
Log:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-01-17/commops.2017-...
Best regards,
Radka
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*Radka Janeková*
*radka.janek(a)redhat.com <radka.janek(a)redhat.com>*
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#fedora-meeting: Fedora CommOps (2017-01-17)
============================================
Meeting started by Rhea at 17:28:03 UTC. The full logs are available
athttps://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-01-17/commops.201...
.
Meeting summary
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* Agenda (Rhea, 17:28:16)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:CommOps_2017-01-17
(Rhea, 17:28:18)
* (1) Roll Call / Q&A (Rhea, 17:28:23)
* (2) Announcements (Rhea, 17:28:25)
* (3) Action items from last meeting (Rhea, 17:28:30)
* (4) Tickets (Rhea, 17:28:32)
* (5) Open Floor (Rhea, 17:28:35)
* Roll Call / Q&A (Rhea, 17:28:39)
* Name; Timezone; Sub-projects/Interest Areas (Rhea, 17:28:42)
* ACTION: commops New members, make sure you introduce yourself on the
CommOps mailing list [ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps/Join ]
(Rhea, 17:28:46)
* Radka Janek; UTC+1; CommOps, Diversity, DotNet,... (Rhea, 17:29:02)
* Alberto Rodriguez; UTC-6; Commops,Infra, Metrics, dotnet and more
(bt0, 17:29:25)
* Brian Exelbierd: UTC+1; FCAIC and eating pasta (bexelbie, 17:29:48)
* Announcements (Rhea, 17:34:54)
* === "Elections - results" === (Rhea, 17:34:58)
* LINK:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/results/council-january-2017
(Rhea, 17:35:18)
* LINK:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/results/fesco-january-2017
(Rhea, 17:35:21)
* LINK:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/results/council-january-2017
(Rhea, 17:35:46)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/elections-retrospective-january-2...
(Rhea, 17:35:49)
* Action items from last meeting (Rhea, 17:36:42)
* LINK:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-01-10/commops.2017-...
(Rhea, 17:36:46)
* 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,
17:36:49)
* === [COMPLETE] jflory7 to publish the blog post as per ticket #97
=== (Rhea, 17:36:53)
* === [COMPLETE] Rhea - Post on Reddit with information about
Elections, links to interviews, etc... === (Rhea, 17:36:57)
* ACTION: Rhea - Post on Reddit with the Election results. (Rhea,
17:37:01)
* Tickets (Rhea, 17:37:35)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issues?tags=meeting (Rhea,
17:37:37)
* === Ticket #98 "Round Up of Fedora Contributor Talks @ FOSDEM" ===
(Rhea, 17:37:41)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/98 (Rhea, 17:37:44)
* ACTION: bt0 to try to get a list of Fedora contributors & talks out
of FOSDEM calendar (Rhea, 17:57:40)
* Open Floor (Rhea, 18:00:39)
Meeting ended at 18:05:31 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* commops New members, make sure you introduce yourself on the CommOps
mailing list [ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps/Join ]
* Rhea - Post on Reddit with the Election results.
* bt0 to try to get a list of Fedora contributors & talks out of FOSDEM
calendar
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* bt0
* bt0 to try to get a list of Fedora contributors & talks out of
FOSDEM calendar
* commops
* commops New members, make sure you introduce yourself on the CommOps
mailing list [ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps/Join ]
* Rhea
* Rhea - Post on Reddit with the Election results.
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* Rhea (80)
* bexelbie (28)
* bt0 (13)
* zodbot (8)
* shantorn (5)
* commops (0)
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7 years, 3 months
self-introduction
by Shane Ball
Hello, my name is Shane Ball (shantorn) and I have been using computers
since the age of 12 when I bought my first computer the Vic 20 with a
cassette drive way way back in 1981. I started tinkering with linux in
1994 and first tried .rpm with Red Hat 5.1 in 1997. I have used Fedora
on and off for many years now and have been involved in the irc
community for quite some time. 2.5 years ago I became disabled and have
been flailing looking for something to do and was gently nudged to look
at the Fedora community and so I am here now. I know a bit about what it
stands for in the Open Source community and I would like to become
involved in it. I read through some of the pagure tickets and found
these to be very interesting to me and felt I could help. #70 Developing
some form of Foss Student Pack for college or even high school students,
#68 the Campus Ambassador Program and #56 On board Series Ambassadors. I
hope I can apply myself to helping in these area's to start with and
that it wont be to difficult for you folks to bring me up to speed on
how operations work here in Comm Ops. I look forward to getting to know
all of you and to becoming familiar with all of this.
Thank you
Shane
shantorn
7 years, 3 months
[fedora-commops] Issue #90 `Improving Fedora Elections Process.`
by Pagure
bt0dotninja added a new comment to an issue you are following:
``
That's right, we have to be careful, but it's still real data ... and in my personal case helps me to take my decisions.
I guess a more refined version including more KPI and splitting the activities done by category like community work, development, marketing, etc could be useful when (like this time) we don't have interviews for all the candidates.
I really think that the contributor's path in the community can be used to improve decisions in the elections
``
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7 years, 3 months
