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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:
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
- - 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?
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.
- - 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.)
- - Classrooms
Anyone for bringing these back? They were great to get folks started (I started contributing through a font packaging classroom session myself!).
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?
- -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha