On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:46 PM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > Ok, looks like we have three volunteers - Josh Fisher, Dave Fisher, and > Andrew Wetmore. So I don't feel like I'm doing this alone, which is > good. > > What we need to do still is: > > 1) Pitch this to the membership to determine whether this should land > on members@ or members-notify@ > 2) Write sample newsletter: https://hackmd.io/0eeIQ7wDQnKr-LAgN6QqLA > 3) Figure out intake tooling (could just be a Google Form) for getting > content in > 4) Figure out our schedule/deadlines to ensure that we get this out in > a predictable cadence. > > I'm going to draft a proposal to send to members@ (probably won't > happen today) and run it back past this thread, unless someone beats me > to it.
I'm a big fan of Cunninham's law: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law Accordingly, I've taken the sample newsletter and posted it here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ASFP/Member+Moment+-+April+2022 I've changed March to April. Added a mention of the June members meeting. Changed the link to the ASF board meeting to the April meeting. Added a link to the whimsy page that tracks members watch. The advantage of the "ASFP" wiki is that it is member private and all ASF members have update access. Unless there is a strong objection or better proposal the content of that page as it exists on April 5th will be sent to members-notify,subject to approval by Joe Brockmeier. - Sam Ruby > --Rich > > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
