Le 03/10/2015 02:32, Cornelius Schumacher a écrit :
* Take part in the exciting upstream projects, which attract the people who are drawn to technically interesting projects. We have a good example with docker, where we provide excellent packaging and more (e.g. Portus). If we do this for more, we can keep the people who look for new things.
yes, I guess many openSUSE active member do so, but then how can we know about? if they package, we can see an obs account, but if they simply help with doc or any other mean?
* Have a clear direction. If everybody knows where we go and moves along with all others we create momentum which drags in people who might otherwise stay inactive. We had the discussion about writing down the vision of Leap. That would be one step.
if you (or every other people) have a clear view of where personal computer will be in say three years, congratulation. I know about leap only from the beginning of the present year (and probably the board knows only some weeks before). It's like life: be prepared :-)
* Recognize active people. Do things like the "people of openSUSE" interviews, a commit digest highlighting interesting contributions and who did them, revive the openSUSE weekly news, etc.
yes, this is (and was) very interesting. Anybody ready to do it? we nee a volunteer...
* Offer a place where people can feel as part of the project, even if they have no time to contribute anymore, and keep the barrier for reentering the active community at zero height. If people have the feeling that they never left and the right task walks by they might pick it up.
be more precise. How can we do that? we give "members" an opensuse mail and IRC cloak, but I have to say I never used them myself (too complicated)
* Some people simply outgrow the community. They might be kept by addressing them on a different level. One of the typical examples are programmers which become managers, start their own companies, or do a similar career step. They might not be contribute with technical work, but maybe they can help with creating partnerships, organizing events, finding money, or similar things.
to be clear, we *never* prevent people to do anything for openSUSE. We can ask only if we know...
* Create opportunities to maintain friendships with people in the active community. This could be release parties, hackathons, inviting former contributors as speakers to events, social events at conferences, etc.
yes. This is the goal of, for example, OSC (OpenSuse Conference) and TSP (Travel Support Programm). Any idea on this level is welcome (as in any other level)
address active people, those who want to become active, and those who didn't realize yet, that they want to be active in openSUSE, but still do ;-)
the goal of any post on any openSUSE mailing list is to trigger ideas :-) thanks jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org