FYI, as some of you are aware, I started a new job earlier this month, and that is consuming *all* of my brain-cycles. If someone else wanted to step up and start organizing the April newsletter, that would be great - although we're alreay behind schedule for that. Failing that, it seems more likely that I would be able to be involved in a May newsletter. Please don't think that this has to be led by me - ideally, we'd each take turns as editor-in-chief, rather than create yet another SPOF. Thanks.
On Thu, 2022-03-10 at 10:00 -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: > Problem: Members (and, more generally, committers) are less engaged > with > the larger Foundation than at any point in our history. Meanwhile, > the > mechanisms for getting more engaged (eg, the members mailing list) > are a > firehose of unrelated content that is very frustrating to the casual > participant - even those who desire a deeper engagement - and, in > practice, are completely off-putting. Committers, meanwhile, have no > real avenue, outside of their project, for further engagement. > > I've been struggling with ways to address this for years, and they > all > tend to founder on the rocks of "People should just be doing X!" > which, > in each case, is true, but also dismissive and ultimately unhelpful. > > I would like to propose that we are more proactive about reaching out > to > our community in tiny, consumable bites, that hint at a larger feast > that they're missing out on. > > Here's my proposal, but I cannot (and will not) tackle this alone, > because that guarantees failure, which guaranteed less participation > the > next time we suggest something like this. > > Proposal/Brainstorming doc: https://hackmd.io/JaLaGy56T8qT3ODABLVswA > > It's an intentionally simple idea - a minimum viable idea, one might > say. > > I want to know who's going to help make it a reality. Not > particularly > interested in "that's a great idea", as much as "I will help make it > happen." > > This will involve engagement with Events, M&P, and Board, at a > minimum, > but over time we'd hopefully engage everyone at the Foundation in > content creation. But, even then, I want to keep this tiny and > consumable - content that you can absorb in 2-5 minutes, always with > a > "to get more engaged ..." call to action aspect to it. > > Come help me develop community. > > --Rich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
