Benjamin Young wrote on 4/14/17 12:36 PM: ...snip... > I'm planning to arrive Sunday night and had planned to attend the > BarCamp on Monday. However, what I'd love to do even more than that, > is sit down with other Apache folks and get started contributing to > all the "meta" projects that we depend on daily. I gave a talk on > getting started with them at a past ApacheCon: > https://apachecon2016.sched.com/event/6OIK > > > My hope would be to help get folks (and myself!) started on projects > like PonyMail, the community.apache.org site, projects.apache.org, > the phonebook, etc. There's a list in my slide deck: > > https://schd.ws/hosted_files/apachecon2016/09/Upgrading%20Our%20Apache.pdf >
A first step is to start working on the community.a.o website itself, to make it obvious there how newcomers can find useful things: https://community.apache.org/about/ https://community.apache.org/newbiefaq.html#websitecms > Other ideas I've kicked around with folks in the past include: > > - a JavaScript "feather widget" that's easily added to any site and > include a slide-out navigation "palette" to the main site and/or > related project content I love that idea, but it has to be super-simple to integrate into existing websites, esp. ones built by Maven or Forrest. Also, experience shows we often have to submit patches and help do integrations. > - stub/starter project sites This might want to wait, since the Infra team is in the process of building a new pelican-based gh-pages like website hosting system that will eventually replace the CMS (in... a few++ months?). You'll be able to tell it to run Maven or Forrest or your own scripts, if you don't want to use the simplistic GFM-like core it provides. > - forms for generating incubator report/status XML (or automating > that a bit more Yes - be sure to check with IPMC folks, since there are a few people there who have talked about this. Also for processes that need to view/manipulate any committer-private data, Apache Whimsy has tooling for that built in. Whimsy is a collection of independent tools for viewing/processing ASF related data: https://whimsy.apache.org/ > Mostly, a day of "scrubbing" the stuff we use and getting the code > setup on hard drives of willing accomplices would be a successful > outcome for the day. ^_^ > > > If this sounds interesting to others, I'd love to help get it on the > schedule and make it happen. The official conference schedule is set, but you can ask Rich if you have questions. But collecting a few volunteers and a URL on the community.a.o website with a proposed time to work on things Monday would be most excellent. > > > Thanks, all! > > Benjamin > > -- > > http://bigbluehat.com/ > > http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung > -- - Shane https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
