On 02/05/2016 08:23 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > This focus on tooling is the wrong focus,
Yeah .. I was going to say ... we could spend weeks down the rat-hole of which tool, which tracker, which technology, and we'll lose track of the goal. Invariably when I travel to events, I get excited about what we could do at Apache to get the word out, if only ... and then I get back home and real life pushes out those good intentions. Tomorrow is the last day of my travels. Perhaps I can get something done today ... 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 > -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
