Community Meeting Notes (16 March 2016) - Onboarding into the Fluid Community

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

    • http://contribute.jquery.org

• https://github.com/blog/2128-creating-a-new-contributor-on-ramp

How do we do things now?

• http://idrc.ocadu.ca/about-the-idrc/getinvolved

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.)

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