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

Kendall Nelson kennelson11 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 30 23:53:27 UTC 2017


I will add you as a member to the wiki. UTC-6 right?

-Kendall (diablo_rojo)

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:50 PM Amy Marrich <amy at demarco.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
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