On Tue, 21.08.12 08:37, David Strauss (da...@davidstrauss.net) wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Lennart Poettering > <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > > We should have a Google+ Event for this for people to > > sign up. > > It would be great to have a mini guide or blog post on the systemd > conventions for organizing a hackfest. I would have been just as happy > using Google+ for signup as EventBrite; there just wasn't any guide > nudging me in that direction. I don't like confusing people with > multiple sign-up places, either.
Either is fine with me. My guess is that more people are on Google+ anyway, so it might be easier to reach people with this. > Knowing the best places to promote hackfests in the wider > Fedora/Suse/Arch community could help, too. > > Ideally, the "guide" would suggest: > > * Where to post the sign-up (Google+ seems to be emerging as the de facto > place) > * Where to consider doing promotion and who controls them (mailing > lists, blogs, calendars, IRC channel subjects/greetings) > * Major events committers will be at (or would consider) that might be > ripe for a hackfest, or where to find this information > > The biggest progress we've ever had in Drupal's decade of community > development have been at these sorts of events. It's hard to overstate > how great they can be for major feature kickoff and new contributor > ramp-up. I have now put a short initial version of such a document online: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/hackfests I hope this is useful. I have also added a new Hackfests section to the systemd homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
