On Jul 28, 2015 8:46 AM, "Ankur Sinha" <sanjay.an...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 10:55 +0200, Gabriele Trombini wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Hiya! > > Sorry I haven't replied yet - I was away at an academic conference. :) > > > > > as you know the talk proposal was accepted( > > https://flock2015.sched.org/ > > event/5c50e2d10a4b1bd7319f6ece318bdcb4#.VadurK0eLeQ). > > Awesome! > > > > > There are some points I should develop: > > > > General part: > > > > 1) the new structure of fedora-join; > > 2) the target of fed-join; > > 3) the new workflow of fed-join; > > 4) what we need to reach the goal; > > Sounds good. The goal of the SIG should be focussed - people need to > understand why the SIG is around in the first place and how it'll > contribute to Fedora. Something on the lines of: > > "We take it for granted that newbies will come up and ask us questions > and learn by themselves but this isn't really how it works. Newbies are > generally shy and scared and only after they spend enough time in the > community do they learn how to go about it all. We want seasoned > contributors to speak to them right when they enter the project to > teach them the Open source way and the Fedora way - at the earliest > opportunity! :D > > You may even get questions about how this is different from the older > "mentors program" and so on. > > > > > Specific part: > > > > 1) why "Mary" is "marooned" (wiki for "dummies", how don't get lost > > inside); > > 2) what we can do for Mary; > > 3) let's "rescue" Mary together. > > I really like this idea. It'll really help in getting across how > newbies find it difficult to join up when they are completely new to > the project. > > > Proposals: > > > > 1) a badge assigned for each rescued user; > > Hrm, this means "Mary" gets a badge? Doesn't this already happen since > all new FAS account users get badges. How about badges for people that > rescue Mary instead? That'll encourage more contributors to help out? > So: > > - badges for people that help newbies > - improve join.fp.o which just redirects to > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join at the moment (it may have all the > info we think newbies need, but it doesn't really help them too much > since they have zero knowledge of the community's functioning > beforehand). > - get http://whatcanidoforfedora.org/ more visibility - and provide > options there to speak to the Fedora Join SIG? > - and so on..? > > > > Those are some of the points I guessed, of course others can get up > > while writing the talk, but if you have any suggestion, feel free to > > reply. > > > > Thanks for working on this. It'll be nice to get some feedback from any > newbies here if they're still around ;) > -- > Thanks, > Regards, > Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" >
Thinking about badges, and how to award them, gave me an idea. What if, instead of being simply a badge, there were a "Community Mentor Award" (name TBD) for three or so folks each release cycle, with nominations and selection from the community at large via the elections app? --Pete
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