Kendall, Count e in as a point of contact. Amy (spotz) On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 4:49 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > openstack-sigs mailing list > openstack-sigs at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-sigs > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-sigs/attachments/20171130/fe266cc6/attachment.html>