Re: Friendly Membership and Mentorship (hackfest meeting)
Jabier Arraiza <jabier.arraiza-p5vzgP1/[email protected]> Wed, 06 Mar 2019 01:00:51 +0100
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Great plan. As far I understand is a payed program, what about include in the program as part of a learning process the requerimients to mentor other person at the end of coding, or continue it if the final goal is splitted on start Enviado desde TypeApp En 6 mar. 2019 0:41, en 0:41, Martin Owens <[email protected]> escribió: >Dear Inkscape, > >We had an involved discussion about membership in the Inkscape >project; how we can be welcoming and how we can organise ourselves for >both casual and formal mentoring. > >Why: > >1. To increase the number of contributors to the Inkscape project. >2. To actively improve the diversity of the project. >3. To inspire developers to develop for users needs. > >How: > >We already have a code of conduct, which is a firm code that everyone >who is a part of Inkscape must abide to in order to be a part of this >community. But on top of this, we wish to draft a "Universal Greeting" >policy. This establishes the ways in which existing contributors >interact with new contributors and users who may become contributors. >We wish all Inkscape project contributors to be casual mentors to all >other contributors and be mindful of our roles as guides. > >The goal is to improve the welcoming atmosphere of all of our official >channels by providing a clear declaration of what being a good greeter >is as well as a clear list of possible responses to each of the >various questions, suggestions and criticisms of the project. > >Contributors do not have to sign up to the policy, but may be asked to >not respond to new contributors until a greeter has had a chance to >direct the new person to the right places for kind of contribution >they want to make. > >Tasks: > >* [ ] Draft Universal Greeting Declaration. How to basics > * [ ] Document of Topics and good responses. > >The next topic involves the old Inkscape Roadmap. This is sometimes >known as the Inkscape Forecast as it's less of a document of what >Inkscape will do, or even wishes it could do, but a way to document >what things contributors are known to be working on and interested in. > >To improve this whole process of direction in the project and improve >how new features land we wish to create a "Forecast Party", these are >monthly events which would be hosted on Rocket Chat (and IRC) where we >would. > >A. In the meeting before a release, review the whole forecast and >decide on the big picture direction of the project. >B. After a new release, have a landing space for new contributors to >the project where we talk about the exiting possibilities and act as a >meet and greet for everyone. >C. All other months would be a focus on a specific forecast or wish >list item. For example on month may be CMYK, another month may be >multi-page. The idea is to get experts and excited people into the >same room and talking about the next steps for the feature, throwing >open the doors to the Inkscape project and promoting the events as a >way to get into moving Inkscape forwards. Show and tell, videos and >other media are expected to be parts of the meeting. > >Tasks: > >* [ ] Create a rocket chat channel for the new event >* [ ] Talk with vectors team about how to promote the events into the >wider community >* [ ] Talk with other developers about promoting the events in >developer spaces >* [ ] Schedule some events to kick of the project. An introductory >meeting to talk about the forecast list itself and what we should be >meeting about next. >* [ ] Set up a Forecast Inkscape project, only the forecast managers >can post new issues to the kanban board, but it would be used to >monitor and understand the Inkscape forecast in detail as well as >document previous discussions. > >We wanted to talk about more active mentorship programs, actively >inviting students from universities with an focus on diversity. We >want to reach out to Outreachy and talk to other groups about how to >attract new students. > >Tasks: > >* [ ] Meeting with Mo about Outreachy at Libre Planet >* [ ] Decide how much money we want to spend on a mentorship program >(board meeting) >* [ ] Decide how to attract students and if we want mentors and >students to be online or if we want programs run through existing >university programs and networks. > > >Martin, > > >_______________________________________________ >Inkscape-devel mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel