[openstack-dev] [First Contact] New SIG: Let's get this party started!

Kendall Nelson kennelson11 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 5 17:42:44 UTC 2017


Cross posting on the dev list to get this a little more attention :)

New SIG yay!

-Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo)

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 2:49 PM Kendall Nelson <kennelson11 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In support of Zhipeng's first email[1] and a chat he and I had the other
> day[2]. I went ahead and started to formalize this SIG.
>
> I created an entry in the SIG table[3]. I also created a specific wiki
> page for the First Contact SIG[4].
>
> At this stage it would be great to get a list going of people interested
> in being points of contact for newcomers and what timezones those people
> work in so its easier to figure out who they should talk to.
>
> I think it would also be beneficial to start collecting links and
> resources- contributor portal, Mentoring wiki, Upstream Institute,
> Outreachy(?) etc to link to on the First Contact wiki page.
>
> As we discussed in the forum session around this SIG[5], it might also be
> good to get representatives and a chair more from the ops side of things so
> that we have more than one type of involvement- not just code/doc
> contribution- covered.
>
> As far as a mission statement sort of thing, I just threw something
> together and am 100% interested in feedback. Pasted here from the SIG Wiki
> and First Contact Wiki:
>
> To provide a place and group of people for new contributors to come to for
> information and advice. New contributors are the future of OpenStack and
> the surrounding community. Its important to make sure they feel welcome and
> give them the tools to succeed.
>
> -Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo)
>
> [1]
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-sigs/2017-October/000123.html
> [2]
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-dev/%23openstack-dev.2017-11-28.log.html#t2017-11-28T00:05:21
> [3] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_SIGs
> [4] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/First_Contact_SIG
> [5] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/SYD-first-contact-SIG
>
>
>
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