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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-sigs/attachments/20171130/43decd07/attachment.html>