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As tobi mentioned, mentorship sounds like a really good idea. This will definitely help out a lot of so so-called "newbies" get started. I know how it feels like to be one and I must say I was really hesitant to start mailing list threads in the beginning.
Yea - we need to start discussing mentoring or other ways to encourage newbies to ask "stupid" questions. It's an attitude one needs to learn tbh. I've put this on my list.
Apart from this, it'll also be a nice idea to have weekly/bi- weekly/monthly meetings on the channel or any of the fedora meeting channels to keep track of things and help newcomers there. I see traces of fedora-join meetings in meetbot[1] but looks like it's not active now. It'll be really nice if someone can step-up and conduct meetings.
We can do one meeting every two weeks - I'll send around a doodle thingy later so we can pick a slot.
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Hmm, isn't the website a part of the Fedora Join effort to bring in more contributors? I don't see how it'll fit in there. We can definitely have a footer which says "More Questions? Talk to us on #fedora-join on Freenode" or something along those lines.
Not really - whatcanido came up independently and has been growing independently since. I was looking at it earlier today - I don't quite see how sending a newbie to "wiki/anaconda/contribute" helps - I think it's become too specific and too detailed. It doesn't really tell a newbie about the overall picture at all..
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I can work on the metrics part of it. I am working on a tool[2] to gather user statistics and recently added a feature to get statistics of an entire FAS group. The tool requires polishing and I'm planning to have a web interface for it soon. If you guys can tell me what kind of stats/metrics is required, I can ready 'em up :)
Lovely! This will be helpful. I think the one issue we've always had is we've never had a list of *specific* issues that newbies face.
- We need to integrate better with the community - we seem to be
a standalone group at the moment, and that just won't work. Maybe we could integrate with CommOps better, since CommOps has members from the different teams?
Sounds like a plan, I will open a ticket regarding this and discuss in tomorrow's CommOps meeting.
cc-ing CommOps here for more comments.
+1
- Maybe an IRC meeting a month just to keep ourselves active
wouldn't be such a bad idea?
+1
- The fas group is only for community members, do we need another
for newbies? Should we just open the group to newbies? (This can then be used to give them wiki access which has been limited to cla+1 to deal with spam.)
Spammers are social engineering a lot nowadays. We cannot really afford to open up to new contributors just yet.
Once the hubs come up and we move away from wiki user pages, I think we'll be fine with this. - -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha