Once a year member meetings are a bit long for us. The regular newsletter can help us to create a rhythm for the community.
Please count me in, I really like the idea and want to make it happen. Willem Jiang Twitter: willemjiang Weibo: 姜宁willem On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 12:46 AM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > Ok, looks like we have three volunteers - Josh Fisher, Dave Fisher, and > Andrew Wetmore. So I don't feel like I'm doing this alone, which is > good. > > What we need to do still is: > > 1) Pitch this to the membership to determine whether this should land > on members@ or members-notify@ > 2) Write sample newsletter: https://hackmd.io/0eeIQ7wDQnKr-LAgN6QqLA > 3) Figure out intake tooling (could just be a Google Form) for getting > content in > 4) Figure out our schedule/deadlines to ensure that we get this out in > a predictable cadence. > > I'm going to draft a proposal to send to members@ (probably won't > happen today) and run it back past this thread, unless someone beats me > to it. > > --Rich > > On Thu, 2022-03-10 at 10:00 -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: > > Problem: Members (and, more generally, committers) are less engaged > > with > > the larger Foundation than at any point in our history. Meanwhile, > > the > > mechanisms for getting more engaged (eg, the members mailing list) > > are a > > firehose of unrelated content that is very frustrating to the casual > > participant - even those who desire a deeper engagement - and, in > > practice, are completely off-putting. Committers, meanwhile, have no > > real avenue, outside of their project, for further engagement. > > > > I've been struggling with ways to address this for years, and they > > all > > tend to founder on the rocks of "People should just be doing X!" > > which, > > in each case, is true, but also dismissive and ultimately unhelpful. > > > > I would like to propose that we are more proactive about reaching out > > to > > our community in tiny, consumable bites, that hint at a larger feast > > that they're missing out on. > > > > Here's my proposal, but I cannot (and will not) tackle this alone, > > because that guarantees failure, which guaranteed less participation > > the > > next time we suggest something like this. > > > > Proposal/Brainstorming doc: https://hackmd.io/JaLaGy56T8qT3ODABLVswA > > > > It's an intentionally simple idea - a minimum viable idea, one might > > say. > > > > I want to know who's going to help make it a reality. Not > > particularly > > interested in "that's a great idea", as much as "I will help make it > > happen." > > > > This will involve engagement with Events, M&P, and Board, at a > > minimum, > > but over time we'd hopefully engage everyone at the Foundation in > > content creation. But, even then, I want to keep this tiny and > > consumable - content that you can absorb in 2-5 minutes, always with > > a > > "to get more engaged ..." call to action aspect to it. > > > > Come help me develop community. > > > > --Rich > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
