This is certainly something that we have talked about over the years, but never got around to, so having M&P providing some steam behind this is very welcome.
One of the things that seems important is making sure that projects are also engaged - or, more specifically, that we only promote first- contrib for projects that are engaged. I say this because we had some first contributor stuff around a recent Apachecon, and the target project almost rejected the whole lot because it was "pizzas we didn't order" and they hadn't been involved in the conversation. We managed to get them to review and accept most of the contributions, eventually, but it was an awkward situation. Anyways, count me in for mentoring and whatever, although time may be limited. --Rich On Tue, 2022-09-27 at 11:23 -0400, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > Hi all, > > We (M&P) would like to propose a collaboration with ComDev about > encouraging new contributions to ASF projects. > > Melissa Logan and the Constantia team have drafted a set of > messaging > and plan for the campaign with an objective of reaching 50 or more > people to share their first contribution to an ASF project on social > media, etc. > > Much of this activity is happening *anyway* but we'd like to > recognize > and encourage it. I'd like to do that with ComDev to: > > 1) Amplify the effort: If folks in ComDev would like to participate > in > mentoring, boosting the signal on social media, and/or helping with > the marketing side of things that would be awesome. > 2) Get input: As I said, people are already making their first > contributions and we could solicit contributors to speak up - but > I'd > like to make sure the campaign is aligned with ComDev! > 3) Avoid unwelcome surprises! This is an area with a lot of overlap > and we didn't want to spring it on folks without notice. Even if > nobody in ComDev participates, having awareness and assent is > important. > > Our current messaging draft is in Google Docs -- happy to give > access > or share out in Hackmd.io or something else. I can just shoot text > to > the mailing list, of course, but that's often painful when giving > feedback on prose. > > Best, > > jzb > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
