Looking for Ideas on a User-friendly Join Process

[Marc Ferguson]

Hi,

My name is Marc Ferguson.  I recently joined the websites group for Fedora
Project and I've been assigned to help figure out a very universal and
user-friendly way to tweak http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora.  Can you
please respond to this thread and let us know what your process is for
people to join your group.  In the end we want to make sure we're all "on
the same page" and that the joining process is much easier, thus increasing
the contributors to the project.  Thanks.

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[David Nalley]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  My name is Marc Ferguson.  I recently joined the websites group for Fedora
>  Project and I've been assigned to help figure out a very universal and
>  user-friendly way to tweak http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora.  Can you
>  please respond to this thread and let us know what your process is for
>  people to join your group.  In the end we want to make sure we're all "on
>  the same page" and that the joining process is much easier, thus increasing
>  the contributors to the project.  Thanks.
>
>  --
>  Marc F.
>
>  www.fergytech.com
>
>  "..Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come.."
>  -Rev1:4
>  "When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide!" -Marc F.
>
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Hi Marc,

How interesting, John Poelstra and I were discussing the join page yesterday.

In general I really like the simplicity

One of my complaints is how high the bar is set - I'll pick on docs
for a minute - the listing there is for a content writer. That's
despite the fact that virtually none of the new contributor tasks are
content generating. The initial tasks are designed to get you familiar
with processes and Fedora, such as wiki Gardening, fact checking
documents.

That said, I don't know that I have a solution that allows you to
present the entry level work as simply as what's presented there.

Another thing is that functions like QA and BugTriage aren't really
represented. Admittedly they are listed under the OS Developer
section, but how many non-OS Developers are going to choose that to
see that Bug Triaging is an option. There are a number of projects
within Fedora that aren't prominently featured.

As I said, this is just my impression - I have no solutions to offer up.

[Karsten Wade]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 02:49:14PM -0500, David Nalley wrote:
>  
>  One of my complaints is how high the bar is set - I'll pick on docs
>  for a minute - the listing there is for a content writer. That's
>  despite the fact that virtually none of the new contributor tasks are
>  content generating. The initial tasks are designed to get you familiar
>  with processes and Fedora, such as wiki Gardening, fact checking
>  documents.
>  
>  That said, I don't know that I have a solution that allows you to
>  present the entry level work as simply as what's presented there. 
One idea we've discussed is grabbing interests and skills from people
(which get associated with their user account), and pairing those up
with needs from various sub-projects.

This requires the sub-projects to thing more deeply about skills and
interests that tie to their areas.

It also requires some automagic, maybe something a little wizard like
to grab and compare skills and interests.

>  Another thing is that functions like QA and BugTriage aren't
> really
>  represented. Admittedly they are listed under the OS Developer
>  section, but how many non-OS Developers are going to choose that to
>  see that Bug Triaging is an option. There are a number of projects
>  within Fedora that aren't prominently featured. 
Agreed, the categories under wiki/Join (for example) are pretty old by
now; we've added more subtleties to the Project since then.

- Karsten
-- 
Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
AD0E0C41

[John Poelstra]

Marc Ferguson wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  My name is Marc Ferguson.  I recently joined the websites group for 
>  Fedora Project and I've been assigned to help figure out a very 
>  universal and user-friendly way to tweak 
>  http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora.  Can you please respond to this 
>  thread and let us know what your process is for people to join your 
>  group.  In the end we want to make sure we're all "on the same page" and 
>  that the joining process is much easier, thus increasing the 
>  contributors to the project.  Thanks.
>   
In addition to adding more information and I'd also suggest looking at 
the "join" pages for other projects for ideas too, particularly finding 
the best way to display the information.

http://www.mandriva.com/en/community/contribute
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate
http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_Participate

John