Great idea. Happy to help with publicising and with reaching out to our contributors. I can get some good examples from the past and current (we have a more-or-less constant stream of new contributors at Airflow (in the order of 10 new contributors a week I think). Also happy to brainstorm/discuss at ApacheCon - we have a talk with Ismael "Growing your contributor's base" which is pretty relevant.
We also just started an initiative together with a few people from Apache Beam (something that I wanted to mention at the talk) that we want to start measuring the behaviours of contributors, discussions, etc and eventually turn it into a tool of sorts that will help commiters and PMC members and encourage/engage new contributors or prospective contributors to our projects to continue/grow/make their first serious contributions. We could likely connect those efforts somehow. There is a (rather little) chance we will have some very early dashboard prototype by the ApacheCon, but I think all involved people will be at the ApacheCon and maybe we will find time to talk about it :)? J. On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 6:47 PM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > This is certainly something that we have talked about over the years, > but never got around to, so having M&P providing some steam behind > this is very welcome. > > One of the things that seems important is making sure that projects > are also engaged - or, more specifically, that we only promote first- > contrib for projects that are engaged. I say this because we had some > first contributor stuff around a recent Apachecon, and the target > project almost rejected the whole lot because it was "pizzas we didn't > order" and they hadn't been involved in the conversation. We managed > to get them to review and accept most of the contributions, > eventually, but it was an awkward situation. > > Anyways, count me in for mentoring and whatever, although time may be > limited. > > --Rich > > On Tue, 2022-09-27 at 11:23 -0400, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > We (M&P) would like to propose a collaboration with ComDev about > > encouraging new contributions to ASF projects. > > > > Melissa Logan and the Constantia team have drafted a set of > > messaging > > and plan for the campaign with an objective of reaching 50 or more > > people to share their first contribution to an ASF project on social > > media, etc. > > > > Much of this activity is happening *anyway* but we'd like to > > recognize > > and encourage it. I'd like to do that with ComDev to: > > > > 1) Amplify the effort: If folks in ComDev would like to participate > > in > > mentoring, boosting the signal on social media, and/or helping with > > the marketing side of things that would be awesome. > > 2) Get input: As I said, people are already making their first > > contributions and we could solicit contributors to speak up - but > > I'd > > like to make sure the campaign is aligned with ComDev! > > 3) Avoid unwelcome surprises! This is an area with a lot of overlap > > and we didn't want to spring it on folks without notice. Even if > > nobody in ComDev participates, having awareness and assent is > > important. > > > > Our current messaging draft is in Google Docs -- happy to give > > access > > or share out in Hackmd.io or something else. I can just shoot text > > to > > the mailing list, of course, but that's often painful when giving > > feedback on prose. > > > > Best, > > > > jzb > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
