Re: Friendly Membership and Mentorship (hackfest meeting)

Jabier Arraiza <jabier.arraiza-p5vzgP1/[email protected]> Wed, 06 Mar 2019 01:00:51 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel
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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

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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,
>
>
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