[fedora-commops] Issue #100 `Column Idea: Help Wanted Wednesday`
by Pagure
bex reported a new issue against the project: `fedora-commops` that you are following:
``
A recurring column for folks looking for contributor help (could run in magazine if better fit).
Describe the project and the specific help you want. What level of help? Can you mentor, etc.
These should be small blurbs and could possible be in a roundup format.
``
To reply, visit the link below or just reply to this email
https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/100
7 years, 2 months
[Minutes] [2017-02-07] Improving election participation with nominations / voting
by Justin W. Flory
Hey everyone! Today's CommOps meeting just wrapped up a little bit ago.
Today's meeting mostly focused on revisiting some of the election
tickets that cprofitt split up from ticket #90 two weeks ago.
The full logs and minutes can be found below! Hope to see you all next week!
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Meeting ended Tue Feb 7 18:36:23 2017 UTC.
Minutes:
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https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-02-07/commops.2017-...
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#fedora-meeting: Fedora CommOps (2017-02-07)
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Meeting started by jflory7 at 17:30:18 UTC. The full logs are available
at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-02-07/commops.2017-...
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Meeting summary
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* Agenda (jflory7, 17:30:27)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:CommOps_2017-02-07
(jflory7, 17:30:32)
* (1) Roll Call / Q&A (jflory7, 17:30:35)
* (2) Announcements (jflory7, 17:30:38)
* (3) Action items from last meeting (jflory7, 17:30:42)
* (4) Tickets (jflory7, 17:30:46)
* (5) Community Blog (jflory7, 17:30:52)
* (6) Open Floor (jflory7, 17:31:00)
* Roll Call / Q&A (jflory7, 17:31:06)
* Name; Timezone; Sub-projects/Interest Areas (jflory7, 17:31:12)
* ACTION: commops New members, make sure you introduce yourself on the
CommOps mailing list [ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps/Join ]
(jflory7, 17:31:17)
* Justin W. Flory; UTC+1; CommOps, Marketing, Magazine, Diversity
Team, Ambassadors, Join SIG, sysadmin-badges, and more (jflory7,
17:31:46)
* Radka Janek; UTC+1; CommOps, Diversity, DotNet,... (Rhea, 17:32:09)
* Alberto Rodriguez;UTC-6;Commops, Dotnet, Infra (bt0, 17:32:33)
* Announcements (jflory7, 17:40:29)
* === "Submissions now open for the Fedora 26 supplemental wallpapers"
=== (jflory7, 17:40:35)
* LINK:
https://fedoramagazine.org/give-fedora-26-a-nice-look-contribute-your-wal...
(jflory7, 17:40:40)
* The submission window for Fedora 26 wallpapers is now open.
Contributors can submit wallpapers to be voted on for the
supplemental wallpaper package in Fedora 26. (jflory7, 17:40:44)
* === "Find Fedora at FOSDEM 2017!" === (jflory7, 17:40:49)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/find-fedora-at-fosdem-2017/
(jflory7, 17:40:54)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-speakers-at-fosdem-2017/
(jflory7, 17:40:58)
* This past weekend, Fedora participated with a community stand at
FOSDEM, one of the largest open source conferences in Europe. Once
we have some time, it would be helpful to try to analyze our impact
at this event, both from a statistic point of view but also on
feedback received. (jflory7, 17:41:05)
* === "Ambassadors LATAM: Year in Review" === (jflory7, 17:41:12)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ambassadors-latam-year-in-review/
(jflory7, 17:41:16)
* The Ambassadors of the LATAM region put together a "Year in Review"
post summarizing their past year and identifying a few goals that
they would like to continue focusing on for 2017. You can read more
on the Community Blog. (jflory7, 17:41:22)
* === Fedora 26 proposed changes close on Feb. 28th === (jflory7,
17:41:29)
* On February 28th, the window for proposed changes to include in
Fedora 26 closes. From there, we will have a confirmed idea of what
kind of new changes will be included in the distribution. The
Marketing team will work on identifying these changes, breaking them
down into talking points, and sharing them with the project. CommOps
will be able to assist by helping share and communicate these
changes with other groups in Fedora as well. (jflory7, 17:41:35)
* Action items from last meeting (jflory7, 17:43:52)
* LINK:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/commops/commops.2017-01-24-17.29....
(jflory7, 17:43:56)
* How This Works: We look at past #action items from the last meeting
for quick follow-up. If a task is completed, we move on to the next
one. If it isn't, we get an update and re-action it if needed. If no
status, we'll try to get a quick update and move forward. (jflory7,
17:44:02)
* === [COMPLETE] jflory7 Work with Rhea on adding her as a subreddit
mod (due:2017-01-25) === (jflory7, 17:44:08)
* LINK: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/ (jflory7, 17:44:13)
* === [COMPLETE] bt0 Verify the accuracy of the current list of Fedora
speakers attending FOSDEM (due: 2017-01-25) === (jflory7, 17:44:19)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-speakers-at-fosdem-2017/
(jflory7, 17:44:24)
* === [COMPLETE] dhanesh95 Put a call out on the devel mailing list
asking for any Fedorans speaking at FOSDEM to please check if their
name is added to our list so that they are covered in a later post
on the Fedora Magazine (due: 2017-01-26/27) === (jflory7, 17:44:29)
* LINK:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.o...
(jflory7, 17:44:34)
* === [COMPLETE] jflory7 Write article introducing Fedora speakers at
FOSDEM on Tue., Jan. 31, publish on Wednesday or Thursday before
FOSDEM (due: 2017-01-31) === (jflory7, 17:44:38)
* LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/find-fedora-at-fosdem-2017/
(jflory7, 17:44:43)
* === [COMPLETE] dhanesh95 File a new ticket in the FESCo Trac/Pagure
requesting more information to the wiki page about their
responsibilities and common tasks (bullet points are great, but if
they have time, longer descriptions would help too) (due:
2017-01-29) === (jflory7, 17:44:49)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1653 (jflory7, 17:44:54)
* === [COMPLETE] cprofitt Work on pulling feedback and ideas mentioned
in Ticket #90 into smaller, more achievable items, either as bullets
in a ticket comment on #90 or as new tickets (due: 2017-01-31) ===
(jflory7, 17:44:59)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/102 (jflory7,
17:45:03)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/103 (jflory7,
17:45:08)
* === [COMPLETE] jflory7 File a new ticket to discuss the idea of
reviving Fedora Classroom more in depth === (jflory7, 17:45:13)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/issue/22 (jflory7,
17:45:17)
* AWESOME! No pending action items from last meeting. Nice work
everyone!! (jflory7, 17:45:22)
* Tickets (jflory7, 17:46:10)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issues?tags=meeting
(jflory7, 17:46:16)
* === Ticket #102: "Improving Fedora Elections Process: Nomination
process" === (jflory7, 17:46:58)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/102 (jflory7,
17:47:03)
* Past and current "election wranglers" of Fedora identified that the
nomination process sometimes faces issues. The biggest problem was
consistently communicating with the public and also nominees. The
public should know with enough time to cast nominations for
positions up for election. After, nominees receive updates about the
campaign process. This has always been done manually. (jflory7,
17:50:37)
* Additionally, another issue is finding out what teams wish to hold
elections. Normally it is consistent, but sometimes, edge cases
happen where a team that doesn't normally hold elections decides to
hold them. This happened recently with the Fedora Ambassador
Steering Committee holding their elections. (jflory7, 17:51:26)
* IDEA: Filing upstream tickets for long-term improvement to the
voting application to handle (1) nominations, and (2) questionnaire
submissions (jflory7, 17:56:01)
* LINK: https://github.com/fedora-infra/elections (jflory7,
17:57:30)
* LINK: https://github.com/benadida/helios-server (FranciscoD,
18:02:25)
* IDEA: Maintaining the communication bar we set for the last
election: CommBlog / Magazine posts, announcement mailing list posts
for nomination and voting process (jflory7, 18:06:28)
* IDEA: Short-term, trying to better communicate questionnaire as
resource for people to edit / add to for nominees to answer
(jflory7, 18:06:54)
* ACTION: jflory7 File feature tickets in Election app for (1)
nomination of candidates, and (2) questionnaire question interaction
(e.g. submitting new questions) (jflory7, 18:10:45)
* === Ticket #103: "Improving Fedora Elections Process: Improving
Voter Participation" === (jflory7, 18:12:53)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-commops/issue/103 (jflory7,
18:12:58)
* Voter participation has been a key focus point of Fedora elections.
In the past, we struggled to have significant participation but it
has gradually improved (with the last cycle reaching the second
highest record of voter participation for some groups). For the past
couple of election cycles, we have tried using some of the following
methods to better engage the voting community: (jflory7, 18:14:31)
* (1) Community Blog posts for candidate interviews leading up to the
election (jflory7, 18:14:52)
* (2) Posts on the announce mailing list at the start of the voting
period, but also close to the end (jflory7, 18:15:08)
* (3) Using social media to promote the election window being open
(jflory7, 18:15:20)
* Some of the new ideas we have had to improve voter participation
are… (jflory7, 18:15:40)
* (1) A single, general post on the Fedora Magazine announcing the
elections (jflory7, 18:16:05)
* (2) Having a badge for voters to receive at the end of the voting
period (while keeping in mind potential privacy issues that could
arise from such a badge) (jflory7, 18:16:32)
* (3) Having nominee AMAs (Ask Me Anything) hours on the Fedora
subreddit, /r/Fedora (or maybe another social media platform of a
candidate's choice) (jflory7, 18:17:06)
* (4) Finding ways to build automated reports of candidates for
positions while keeping it general and fair to participants - this
idea should be approached with caution (jflory7, 18:17:40)
* IDEA: Running data analysis on past election participation data
would be helpful to understand our impact (cc: bee2502?) (jflory7,
18:25:05)
* IDEA: Seriously investigate the idea of having a badge for voter
participation (consider security concerns!) (jflory7, 18:27:28)
* IDEA: Holding AMA on IRC (a la freenode AMA style) and syncing
traffic in IRC channels to Telegram to promote participation and
awareness of the election process (needs discussion with jkurik)
(jflory7, 18:28:13)
* ACTION: jflory7 Summarize this discussion into the ticket, try to
get opinion of jkurik (and also bee2502 for metrics) in the ticket
(jflory7, 18:29:11)
* Community Blog (jflory7, 18:30:58)
* How This Works: There is a quick blast of information about what was
published in the past week with some metrics, followed by posts that
are being drafted. After the information blast, the floor is opened
for any Community Blog-related discussion. Here we go! (jflory7,
18:31:06)
* === This Week in CommBlog === (jflory7, 18:31:13)
* (1) "FOSS Wave: FOSS Camp SJCE in Mysore" - sumantrom (jflory7,
18:31:18)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/foss-wave-foss-camp-sjce-mysore/
(jflory7, 18:31:23)
* Total Views (Feb. 2 - Feb. 7): 75 (jflory7, 18:31:28)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/wp-admin/admin.php?page=stats&vie...
(jflory7, 18:31:34)
* (2) "Fedora speakers at FOSDEM 2017" - jflory7 (jflory7, 18:31:40)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-speakers-at-fosdem-2017/
(jflory7, 18:31:45)
* Total Views (Feb. 3 - Feb. 7): 67 (jflory7, 18:31:49)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/wp-admin/admin.php?page=stats&vie...
(jflory7, 18:31:55)
* (3) "Ambassadors LATAM: Year in Review" - williamjmoreno++
(jflory7, 18:32:01)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ambassadors-latam-year-in-review/
(jflory7, 18:32:07)
* Total Views (Feb. 7): 18 (jflory7, 18:32:11)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/wp-admin/admin.php?page=stats&vie...
(jflory7, 18:32:17)
* === Coming Up in CommBlog === (jflory7, 18:32:23)
* (1) "Earn Fedora Badges designing Badges!" - riecatnor (jflory7,
18:32:29)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/?p=3352&preview=1&_ppp=cd7e700f87
(jflory7, 18:32:35)
* (2) "TAFFY - Tucson Arizona Fedora Fanatic Yeasayers" (jflory7,
18:32:40)
* LINK:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/?p=3390&preview=1&_ppp=9873414378
(jflory7, 18:32:45)
* Open Floor (jflory7, 18:33:48)
Meeting ended at 18:36:23 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* commops New members, make sure you introduce yourself on the CommOps
mailing list [ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps/Join ]
* jflory7 File feature tickets in Election app for (1) nomination of
candidates, and (2) questionnaire question interaction (e.g.
submitting new questions)
* jflory7 Summarize this discussion into the ticket, try to get opinion
of jkurik (and also bee2502 for metrics) in the ticket
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* commops
* commops New members, make sure you introduce yourself on the CommOps
mailing list [ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommOps/Join ]
* jflory7
* jflory7 File feature tickets in Election app for (1) nomination of
candidates, and (2) questionnaire question interaction (e.g.
submitting new questions)
* jflory7 Summarize this discussion into the ticket, try to get
opinion of jkurik (and also bee2502 for metrics) in the ticket
* **UNASSIGNED**
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
7 years, 2 months
GSoC 2017 org applications open ( sourcing interest and ideas)
by Corey W Sheldon
As some of you may know, every year Google hosts the Google Summer of
Code (GSoC), last year we participated with some decent results for a
few projects. I was just sending this heads up to those whom may be
interested in partaking as a mentor or student (even if you are already
a fedora contributor) for a project within Fedora.
Basic requirements for students and ideas are below and find the full
lowdown at [0].
What are the eligibility requirements for participation?
* You must be at least 18 years of age
* You must currently be a full or part-time student (or have been
accepted for the fall term) at an accredited university as of the
student acceptance date
* You must be eligible to work in the country you will reside in during
the program
* You have not already been accepted as a Student in GSoC more than once
* You must reside in a country that is not currently embargoed by the
United States. See Program Rules for more information.
Prospective students: read the Student Manual [1]
Prospective Mentors: read the Mentors Manual [2]
[0] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq
[1]
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/manual#student_m...
[2]
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/manual#mentor_ma...
Hopefully I will see some of you among the applications.
--
Corey W Sheldon
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Post review request
by William Moreno
Hello all, I have a draft for a post "Ambassadors LATAM - Year in review" will be nice if please can help me the review of the post.
Best Regards
William Moreno Reyes
7 years, 3 months