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Excerpts from Davanum Srinivas (dims)'s message of 2017-09-26 11:25:07 -0400:
> Doug,
> 
> I'd like to add a reference to organizations that the new community
> members belong too as the pressure comes from their chain of command
> too:
> 
> How's this?
> 
> To proactively work with new community members and organizations to
> help them become
> effective contributors in OpenStack by sharing tips, information,
> resources and guidance and
> to facilitate collaboration between the people working on initiatives
> related to community goals.

+1

> 
> Thanks,
> Dims
> 
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
> > Excerpts from Zhipeng Huang's message of 2017-09-25 21:51:34 +0800:
> >>
> >> *Goals*:
> >> 1. To serve as the first contact point when project develop team finding
> >> something extraordinary.
> >> 2. To serve as the first contact point for local community to reach out to
> >> the dev community, whether it is first-comer onboarding, language
> >> translation issue, culture issue, etc.
> >> 3. To enable groups like Upstream Institute to maximize their capabilities
> >> on helping individuals, especially first-comers.
> >> 4. To enable local chapters could get a direct line with the dev community
> >> (not the foundation governance layer since we already have many links on
> >> that level) without involvement of more  non-tech interest parties.
> >> 5 To work with Linux Foundation CHAOSS program on project merit
> >> identification.
> >
> > Let's reset the conversation a bit and talk about what the scope for the
> > new SIG should be.
> >
> > The wiki page https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_SIGs has a table
> > with a column for the scope and the existing items are short like the
> > mission statements for project teams. With that in mind, I propose we
> > start with something like:
> >
> >   To work with new community members to help them find the information
> >   and resources they need to become effective contributors and to
> >   facilitate collaboration between the people working on initiatives
> >   related to those goals.
> >
> > That tries to set a positive focus for the future of the group,
> > rather than focusing on the negative aspect of the thread that
> > triggered the idea.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Doug
> >
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