[Fedora-join] A standard set of steps to join any Fedora sub-team

[Cory Hilliard]

On 04/23/2014 05:52 PM, Sarup Banskota wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Sarup Banskota <sbanskota08 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sbanskota08 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Matthew Miller
>     <mattdm at fedoraproject.org <mailto:mattdm at fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
>
>         On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 03:30:43PM +1000, Ankur Sinha wrote:
>         > I stole the last few steps from the infra team. I think they
>         have the
>         > best and easiest join process. They create a fi-apperentice
>         group and
>
>         They have a great process, but it also requires someone
>         dedicated to helping
>         mentor the apprentices and do the status report queries. That
>         is definitely
>         awesome and I'd like to see more of it across Fedora, but I
>         don't know how
>         we can demand it of every sub-team.
>
>
>     I'm not really sure how it currently works on other teams, but
>     maybe we should have an ambassador assigned to every team? Maybe
>     multiple ambassadors to accommodate several timezones per
>     sub-team? Am I wrong in thinking that ambassadors should take up
>     responsibility of a particular team for fixed days in a given
>     timezone if they're going to become ambassadors? I understand
>     people are only volunteers, but I feel not being guided by a human
>     when starting out really puts off newcomers. It would be nice to
>     have rosters of ambassadors/contributors mentoring newcomers at
>     specific periods of time.
>
>
> Sorry for the repeated reply, I just had a chat with Pete on irc and 
> it seems like I may have not explained my intent properly. What I 
> really mean to say is that there should be someone on every team to 
> help out newcomers, show them specifically how they can help with a 
> project based on their skills, and then be with them until they first 
> set it up on their local (or come up with a logo for eg). Now this 
> person may or may not be an ambassador, but it's useful if all 
> ambassadors know such people so they know who to point people to when 
> they're directing people to a team.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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I think if it was set up as an ambassador controlled help line, then it 
would work great.

A forum or something that makes people feel like they aren't alone and 
can ask questions.  I don't necessarily think that a 1:1 ratio or a 
group-led walkthrough by one specific ambassador is needed, as much as a 
place where people can go to feel heard.  Yes the connections to real 
people are important, but as long as someone on the other end can help 
when questions arise would make all the difference.
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