On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:56:56AM -0600, Clint Savage wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is anyone currently working on a better wizard for new contributors? I've > > had several come to Infrastructure in just the last couple of days. Many > > of them had no idea what to do next other then "they wanted to be a > > developer" or "wanted to contribute to Fedora." I've noticed the more > > lost they are (IE: the more wide their focus is) the more lost I am to > > tell them where to go next. > > > > -Mike > > Mike, > > To answer you question. Yes, we are. Now I can't say that our > solution considers many of the items you mentioned, but it directly > addresses Joining the project and deals with the knowledge and flow. > However, it's currently only intended to be used at conferences. The > project is called Fedora Event Splash (or FEZ if you don't like the > long name) > > We had a FAD about it at UTOSC 2009 and the overwhelming thing that > kept coming up was how confusing it was to join the project if you > didn't have any idea how you wanted to proceed. Ian and I have a > hackfest for it at FUDCon where we plan to start development on it so > we could sure use some input. > > https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-event-splash/wiki This could easily be the first step in a larger process, which Luke Macken has also been discussing with a number of people. Clint had mentioned at UTOSC the idea of having this new splash be a Moksha app to make it easier to grow and integrate later with the Fedora Community portal. He also posted this a couple of weeks ago: http://sexysexypenguins.com/2009/10/08/fedora-fad-utosc-2009-fedora-event-splash-aka-fes/ -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
