Hi All, I was working on this, so if you can dump things here We can probably work something out and have things in written. Thanks Manu On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:55 AM, DuBois, Scott L. <ranger@roguehorse.com> wrote:
This is a really great idea! : ) I would be happy to support and help as much as I can.
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Rajko <rmatov101@charter.net> wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:50:26 +0100 Johannes Carraro <johannes.carraro@nea-carraro.de> wrote:
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Hello everybody,
... I subcribe mailing- lists ... and read them the first times, but it didn´t tell me were i can start... We must take Newcomer by hand and show then How...
Exactly. We have many plans, but not much how to help new user overcome fear to show up and start helping.
So i ´ve got an idea.... we got to get a plan for that... Somebody from the lang time MEMBERS, should do this... A Newcomer must get a plan to get participate on opensuse-project:
- A List of few MEMBERS (with emailadresses) which can be contact by newcomer
It would be better to use for communication:
- project mail list,
- project IRC channel and
- forums.
I'm not familiar with forums structure to recommend proper forum, but one can start with chit-chat forum. Forum moderators will probably spot such post and help with details. Those communications will be monitored by few volunteers that will start talk with new people.
To introduce own experience and skills one can use openSUSE Connect. There is whole a lot of room on user page that can be used to introduce all details:
- from projects one worked with before,
- wishes what one wants to help with,
- skills acquired in the school and previous projects,
- skills one wants to improve, and more.
- They (Members) should check up his Skills and what he want do (packaging, wiki, documentation..) in the project.
- Then send him to contcact a Team (Teamleader), were he want to go or where is good for him to go
This is point where we have a missing link :)
There is no team, besides Marketing that can tell single task new user can do to start participating.
I propose to create lists of Papercuts tasks for each of projects. Small annoying stuff, simple to solve, that is waiting for someone to do. List should contain:
- task name
- very detailed description what has to be done
- list of skills,
- list of objects to fix (in the wiki that would be pages to fix)
- whom to contact with questions.
What this will help is to:
- define tasks that come up to do again and again
- (wiki) team member will have to write instructions once and list pages to fix. (This is often one wiki page that automatically list pages with a problem, so one will refer to that page by URL)
- it will connect experienced team members with those that want to learn and help
- This Plan Step-by-Step must be in the Wiki by "How to be Participate!"
Right.
Workflow would be: Wiki page - How to participate > Team page with papercuts And from that point people will already have live person to ask how to proceed.
Is this difficult, to do this in future?
No, but some has to do it.
If you can to incorporate above ideas and create plan with more details I'm here to help you and bug people with more experience that overlooked this conversation to help both of us.
Cheers Johannes
-- Regards, Rajko.
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