Few Ideas for Improving Fedora-Join SIG
by Alisha Mohanty
Most of the starters are not able to get all the information he/she requires while onboarding. A well-maintained Landing page is what they need, which should give them a clear and overall idea of what Fedora does and what are the fields that they find interesting. This will be a proper head start, and later when they are sure, guidance can be sought by Fedora Join SIG members. An assembly of all the required resources at one platform will not only help the newcomer to get a clear idea of what he/she will be doing with the different areas in the Fedora community, it will also help clear the doubts of the necessary question that might be running without the acknowledgment of any third person (sometimes starter who are beginners to open source feel shy to talk in a public platform).
Proposed Solution
Planning a better New comer’s landing page
WIP: https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/issue/161
We should update this https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join to provide the redirection saying it is not maintained, for recent update go to this https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/issue/161
New Comer Landing page should have these proper redirections to these since these pages any newcomer would need to know Fedora well.
Wcidff (which also need an update) (https://whatcanidoforfedora.org/en/)
Easy-fix (https://fedoraproject.org/easyfix/)
Fedora-apps (https://apps.fedoraproject.org/)
Ideation of getting consistent contributors for Fedora!
Organizing an Outreach Program
I was thinking if we could do an outreach program for a short span(like 40-60 days) once a year, which would be something similar to that of a GSoC/Outreachy, but it would be solely organized by Fedora.
It would draw the attention of people who want to be a part of the community and do great projects.
It would be a great opportunity, where we could get potential long term contributors for Fedora.
We could incorporate projects that require prior attention like
Wcidff
Working on the Docs etc
Source of Inspiration - Season of KDE(https://season.kde.org/)
Proposing Wcidff as a GSoC/Outreachy project would be a good idea.
(More project related discussions is here https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/what-to-do-with-wcidff-warning/13302)
A proper guideline for contributors to get a detailed idea of the areas that wcidff has like Design, Artwork Requests, Coding, etc.
(A docs.f.o would be great)
Converting this article to a docs.fp.o page might be helpful
https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-contribute-to-fedora/
(Suggestion- It might fit into CommOps docs https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/commops/ )
Apps. Fedora (https://apps.fedoraproject.org/) is a great resource for boarders to get a clear idea of different applications Fedora. But eventually, the site might go down as CPE Team might not want to maintain it. So, we should either get an alternative or maintain it.
These were some of the ideas I thought might need some limelight and some I personally want to present.
Any suggestions would be highly helpful!
3 years, 7 months
Project guidelines
by ANSHUL DUTT SHARMA
Hi I am Anshul , a sophomore from IIT Roorkee and I am interested in
contributing to open source. I am comfortable with python. Can anyone
suggest me a project to contribute in fedora which is likely to come in
Gsoc this year?
3 years, 8 months
Contributing guidelines
by ANSHUL DUTT SHARMA
Hi I am Anshul Dutt , a sophomore from IIT Roorkee. I am interested in
contributing to fedora. Can anyone give me some contributing guidelines as
to where should I start?
3 years, 8 months
Cannot login with FedoraProject.org wiki - Log in with FAS
by Thomas Schneider
Hi,
can you please help with this issue?
I cannot login with FedoraProject.org wiki - Log in with FAS.
There's written:
"You must have cookies enabled and a Fedora Account System (FAS) account
to log in to Fedora Project Wiki.
Additionally, due to spam edits, as of 2016-08 your account must have at
least one non cla* group to be able to login and edit.
See Join for information on groups to join and contribute to.
You need to have at least CLA+1 (group) "
I have created an FAS and I have these roles:
Signed CLA Group (user)
Signers of the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (user)
with Status: approved
What is missing?
THX
3 years, 8 months
