On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 01:29:10PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:56:18 -0500, > Jon Stanley <jonstanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 3) While this cannot happen without item 2 (as has recently been > > > proven), we need to increase our efforts to foster a culture of > > contribution in Fedora. While we've done reasonably well at this, > > there's always room for improvement. One area that I think that we've > > done well at, but still needs improvement, is the recruitment and > > retention of "non-traditional" contributors. This would include areas > > such as marketing, design, and Ambassadors (though a lot of > > Ambassadors, myself included, do have other roles within the project > > as well, and that should be encouraged as well). Here's where I need > > help, as while I recognize that this needs to be done, I have no > > concrete plans or ideas of how to accomplish it. > > We also could use a few more project managers as the only ones we have seem > to be sponsored by Red Hat. > > I think one theme I have seen across a few groups is better documentation > on how to get involved is needed. I have seen this mentioned in the design > team, the infrastructure team, Spins SIG and for running the elections. This > includes both steps to contact the team and description of specific jobs > or tasks people might do. Some people seem to be reluctant to volunteer > when they aren't sure what they are committing to and others want to help, > but don't know what to do. > I think that mentorship has a higher return than documentation... with documentation, we seem to be pushing people into a deep blue sea of information without really showing them how to apply that knowledge to getting tasks done. Mentors fill that gap. I'm seeing that a lot in the package maintainer's space... less so in infrastructure although, for the people I've helped into infrastructure, I've taken the mentorship route where I think the sysadmin side of infra has gone the documentation route more. -Toshio
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