On Jan 9, 2016 14:58, "Ross Gardler" <ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > Everyone should read the subject and reset.
+1 - the original subject line corresponds to that projects interested in new activity. 3-5 times a week a student or IT hobbiest or professional developer or website designer pings dev@community.a.o asking 'I would like to contribute, where do I start?' These are of the 30-500 who looked at apache.org pages with the same question. The stock answer is always 'choose a project that interests you, and dive right in'. Is there a way to reframe this discussion as a collaboration of incubating projects to create a landing page, perhaps with a query-by- programming languages/skills/components needed that includes the terse project and audience summaries for incubating efforts? Somewhere dev@community can direct newcomers to help find their 'fit' or area of interest in the foundation? TLPs have it sort-of-easy, most are well known names to their audiences. Incubation efforts are less so, recently renamed and just assembling all the pieces with the expected gaps throughout. Who would be interested in such an effort? Wondering if the Whimsy PMC might be the platform to build such an ASF 'projects' search board?
