Happy to help. Along with mentoring in Google Summer of Code, I've led workshops in a number of capacities and conferences/venues/countries ( Beam Summit, HOPE <https://hope.net/>, etc ) on helping people get their first code contribution into a[n apache :-) ] project, outlining general paths for contributing, and community overall. Though concretely getting a PR created and merged is very straightforward, I also try to highlight the many ways to contribute that are not code. Interacting people right as they are addressing could prove useful and yield interesting stories, and there are ways to cast a net to find people that might want to opt into the initiative for sharing about their first contribution that is much 'lower touch'.
To the specifics of publicizing/amplifying what is already happening: for GitHub based projects, there are very low effort ways to let first-time-PR contributors know to opt-in/contact marketing. For example, see: https://github.com/behaviorbot/first-pr-merge ... and specifically: ' firstPRMergeComment'. It would potentially be easy for any project to add that, along with a message to contact ComDev/P&M/specific-contact-information? The thought is that would help grow our communities? Should we get a general recipe together for projects can add this to their repos ( in that case, where to point first-time-contributors, a specific email/other?) ? Then, potentially just a matter of getting potentially interested PMCs to add to their repos. My only concern would be ensuring that this gets updated/removed from repos, once no longer an initiative from p&m. Said another way, if asking new contributors to contact someone, we need those people to be responsive, else it needs to be updated/removed. On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 12:02 PM Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com> wrote: > Great idea. > > Happy to help with publicising and with reaching out to our contributors. I > can get some good examples from the past and current (we have a > more-or-less constant stream of new contributors at Airflow (in the order > of 10 new contributors a week I think). > Also happy to brainstorm/discuss at ApacheCon - we have a talk with Ismael > "Growing your contributor's base" which is pretty relevant. > > We also just started an initiative together with a few people from Apache > Beam (something that I wanted to mention at the talk) that we want to start > measuring the behaviours of contributors, discussions, etc and eventually > turn it into a tool of sorts that will help commiters and PMC members and > encourage/engage new contributors or prospective contributors to our > projects to continue/grow/make their first serious contributions. We could > likely connect those efforts somehow. There is a (rather little) chance we > will have some very early dashboard prototype by the ApacheCon, but I think > all involved people will be at the ApacheCon and maybe we will find time to > talk about it :)? > > J. > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 6:47 PM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > >
