This focus on tooling is the wrong focus, especially for those of us who don't know how to get started on new tooling, or for those who recognize we already have a fine tool for the job - we're just not communicating it well.
Here are three concreate actions *anyone* with a little time available can take today. 1) Update the page at http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html to be more generic (i.e. not GSOC specific) and reflect the goals of this thread (if you don't know how to use the ASF CMS to edit our site I've pasted the markdown below, just edit here and someone can put it onto the site for you) 2) Pick your favourite project. Drop a mail to the dev list. Explain your motivation. Ask them to mark issues according to the guidelines in http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html 3) Get the message out to those who need a little guidance that they can find such issues in JIRA (there are many ways this can be done, all of them are good ;-) Ross -----Original Message----- From: Venkat Raman [mailto:ramanindy...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 7:55 PM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: Guiding volunteers Hi - It would be extremely helpful to have systems like savannah to newbies to dive in based on their skill sets and area of interest.I would like to contribute as well. But, struggling in the same way as others to get started. Regards, Venkat On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: > > > On 2/4/2016 10:35 AM, Greg Chase wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: >> >> An alternative approach would be a help-wanted page, organized >> according >>> to skills, maintained on the same sort of system as the board agenda. >>> Each >>> PMC chair whose project is looking for volunteers would supply >>> information about their needs. The result would be a public web page >>> potential volunteers could search. >>> >>> Ideally, it would be on a whimsey-like system, but a start could be >>> made by just defining a format and keeping the master page in a PMC >>> chair accessible SVN archive. >>> >>> >>> This is a wonderful idea. I've been looking for a way to get the >>> various >> incubating communities I'm helping organize recruit new contributors. >> This >> would help solve this problem by making it easier for (p)PMC's to >> articulate what they would like help with from new community members. >> >> Obviously it would be an adhoc system, and up to projects to fill out >> and keep their want ad's up to date. Perhaps a rule of the system >> would be that want ads are automatically deleted after a month if >> they aren't visited and renewed by project members to verify they are still >> current. >> > > I like the idea of automatic disappearance, but maybe make it three > months and tie it to the board report cycle - every time a PMC files a > board report, it should also check and update its help wanted. > > >> So basically, I'm volunteering to help here :) >> > > I would also like to help, but don't know how to get something like > this started. > > Patricia > -- Thanks & Regards, Venkat Raman. R
