Hey Rich, This sounds like a great idea. I'm not sure in what capacity, but I'd love to offer any assistance I can to help this WG.
On 2024/02/07 16:53:01 Rich Bowen wrote: > Proposed: A formal working group around how we welcome new folks in a > consistent and helpful manner. > > We get people on this list (and on every dev@ and user@ list at the > foundation) asking how to get engaged. We almost always give them unhelpful > answers, and send them off to go figure it out on their own. > > The Welcome WG would write documentation, and process, around welcoming these > new folks, and shepherding them towards engagement. This would include, but > not be limited to: > > * Guiding projects towards the incubator. This includes the “why would you > want to be at Apache? Why would you *NOT* fit at Apache?” documentation that > we really don’t have yet. > * Guiding brand-new contributors towards how, and where, to contribute. This > may include working with some of our more welcoming projects to figure out > best practice, and our less-welcoming projects to figure out why they are and > help them fix that. > * Working with second-time contributors to encourage best practice. (See > https://mikemcquaid.com/stop-mentoring-first-time-contributors/ for thoughts > on first- vs second-time contributors) > * Crafting boilerplate answers to send to folks who show up asking for help > getting involved, so that we don’t continue this practice of unhelpful “go > figure it out on your own” responses. > * Maybe work on some kind of a badging program (See > https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ if you don’t know what I mean by that) to > incentivize and gamify community engagement, for reasons that I would love to > talk much more about, but are beyond the scope of this proposal. > > What do y’all think? > > — > Rich Bowen > rbo...@rcbowen.com > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
