On 2023/03/17 12:45:22 Jim Jagielski wrote:
> Maybe part of ComDev could be in the matchmaker aspect of connecting
> external people to internal groups. For example, Petri is a sort of
> mentoring program...
Matching external people to internal groups would be a huge step forward in
increasing the accessibility to the foundation!
What kinds of groups should we be trying to grow this way?
Additionally, some sort of volunteer mentoring program would also be a huge
boon to keeping newcomers involved in the larger community.
>
> Just 2c from a peanut
>
> > On Mar 16, 2023, at 11:40 AM, rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote:
> >
> > Hi, folks,
> >
> > I have tried to write this email several times, and keep getting
> > overwhelmed. Trying again.
> >
> > Comdev has no focus. Our website is a mess. We have no clear idea of
> > what we do. I would like to get back to basics, and figure out what it
> > actually is that we do here, and get rid of the stuff that we don't.
> >
> > For example: Looking at the website, we claim we have a mentoring
> > program. This is not true, and I'd like to cull that entire part of the
> > site. But I don't want to step on people who might actually want to do
> > that work.
> >
> > And that's just one example.
> >
> > A while back (2017) I rather over-optimistically wrote
> > https://community.apache.org/about/ which was a list of things that I
> > hoped that we might do some day. That was a mistake, because it makes
> > promises that nobody is following up on.
> >
> > I want to get back to our mandate:
> >
> > Provide a wide array of information, FAQs, and help to newcomers and
> > existing committers, and maintains a number of helpful tools.
> >
> > We should be a repository for useful information and best practice for
> > people at all levels of our community: newcomers; contributors;
> > committers; pmcs.
> >
> > The tools that we presumably maintain include:
> > projects.a.o
> > reporter.a.o
> > helpwanted (I think this is EOL, realistically)
> >
> > We facilitate Apache Local Communities (which does not appear to be
> > references on the website?)
> >
> > And we also facilitate GSoC
> >
> > I would like to refocus our website, and our efforts, around those
> > things, and drop everything else from our website, until and unless
> > someone actually steps up to do them.
> >
> > And, yes, I'm volunteering to do this work, but want to be sure I'm not
> > taking too much authority in doing so.
> >
> >
> >
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