Community Meeting Notes (16 March 2016) - Onboarding into the Fluid Community
- Justin Obara
Owned by Justin Obara
Mailing List thread: fluid-work
Original captured on Viking Pad
- Examples of communities that have a good process
- http://hood.ie
- well designed site, specifically contribution page
- dashboard of recent work
- code of conduct
- http://code4lib.org/
- well organized
- concise about page
- code of conduct
- Indoctrination document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m-9VtL7L_fUxl2hTF_YZSdFRfucaLtmHvLSzom6XPVM/edit?pli=1#heading=h.99orczg96qj5
- inside jokes
- https://www.adafruit.com/about
- jquery.com
- single contribute page that collects all the necessary information in one simple loation
- https://github.com/blog/2128-creating-a-new-contributor-on-ramp
- http://hood.ie
- How do we do things now?
- How did you get involved?
- word-of-mouth
- attending community meetings
- mailing lists
- hired
- What we could do better
- distinction / overlap of our various projects
- so many links to lots of projects can be overwhelming
- easier if have a single project to start with
- fluid wiki doesn't provide enough information
- could have wiki page that links all the info for GSoC students (e.g. related to development)
- could use an introductory level tutorial to infusion and etc.
- lots of web sites, not sure where to look for what
- not sure what type of contributions are needed for the various projects (e.g. develompent, design, research, etc.)
- distinction / overlap of our various projects
- Who is in our community/Who isn't?
- GSoC Specific
- having time to code review
- need wiki gardening for resources that are useful
- need to have clear language for how to do things, may have language barriers
- should students use the fluid-work mailing list for introductions or stick to the IRC channel
- keeping track of CLAs
- Ask past students to provide feedback on their experience, and to provide information about how they learned to use the various tools and etc.
- Possible solutions
- Think of Fluid as the umbrella community, and other things like FLOE as projects that are contributed to by it
- Can have getting involved guides that are specific to the various levels, IDRC, Fluid, etc. and interlink as needed
- Concrete next steps
- Getting started page specific to GSoC, expectations.
- if this is more generic it can be used for interns and other volunteers
- Looking to Get Involved pages for IDRC, Fluid, etc
- Wiki gardening
- Glossary of community specific terminology (e.g. inside jokes, inside knowledge, etc.)
- Timeline of projects
- Getting started page specific to GSoC, expectations.