On 11/06/2015 02:44 PM, Remy DeCausemaker wrote:
One of the first tasks for our soon-to-be Outreachy Intern will be establishing onboarding badge series' for each team and subproject! As an example of this, we have the "bootstrapped" series, which is in progress, but includes a number of common badges that help to introduce new contributors generally to a number of aspects of the project. (See: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/ticket/409)
Even if we don't have a badge series identified yet, having the steps listed to join a particular group will help with both creating the series, and engaging with new contributors in an event like a Join-Day.
That's my $.02, --RemyD.
That would definitely be awesome to have a sort of "Bootstrapped" series for the different subgroups - it would also provide the people participating a direct reward (i.e. a badge) for completing a task to being onboarded.
So in the meanwhile, we can begin working towards making the steps more clear and/or visible for a given subgroup that we want to work more closely with.
On 11/06/2015 02:47 PM, Gabriele Trombini wrote:
I have to do some enhancements on the marketing tasks (intended as general part of it) and in the wiki, so is not the best point from where to start. I think magazine, within the mktg workflow, currently is the most effective section where people can get involved. Its workflow is very clear, and also is the entry point of the project.
Magazine is attracting many users and has great visibility as well.
Of course Justin, Paul and Ryan are fully qualified for reach all the request and they are able to explain the process.
On 11/06/2015 02:53 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
Does marketing have well established workflows for people to learn about? I know the structure is in place for magazine contributions and editorial review, but I don't feel like a clinic on how to log into WordPress and write a draft post qualifies as a thorough introduction to the Fedora Marketing Team.
In contrast, QA has a lot going on, where we can teach about package and release lifecycle and the role of quality testing in that process. It may be a better fit.
Hmmm. So our options seem to either be the Magazine or the QA team? My thoughts on this is if we were to do a Magazine Join-Day, we might even try to have a few "easy" pitches that people could try to do, but otherwise, I could see where it might be similar to what Pete described. Of course, I guess it also depends on where peoples' interests lie.
For the QA team, I'm not that familiar with the process but I could become familiar with the process and help in the proceedings.
On 11/06/2015 02:47 PM, Gabriele Trombini wrote:
I think the next steps are:
- create a workflow specifically for this day.
- choose the tool we'd like to use (IRC? Hangouts?) IMO IRC is still
the best, the fedora-join channel is quiet enough; 3) setting the day.
Of course we must advertise the event on the magazine, socials, and everything is useful to spread the join-day (I think we should also consider to send a mail also to the local community [1]).
I think this is pretty universal for any group we end up going with. Seems like a good outline to me.
-- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7@gmail.com