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Fedora Join Special Interest Group

The Fedora Join Special Interest Group (SIG) aims to set up and maintain channels that let prospective contributors engage with the community. The idea here is to enable people looking to join the Fedora community to converse with existing members, make friends, find mentors, and get a feeling of what and how the community does in general, with a view to reduce the learning gradient that joining a new community entails - and make it more enjoyable!

Mission

Different teams already have different, mostly well documented, SOPs (standard operating procedures) for joining their respective SIG. The infrastructure team is a great example of this. However, we often meet people who are unsure of how their skills fit into the community. We want to provide these people a channel where they can speak to existing members of the community, learn about what they do and use this information to find the right team to get started with. We help new members form relationships with members; we point them to the right resources - wiki or otherwise; and we expect that this should greatly improve the joining experience.

Goals

Set up a communication channel between the existing contributors and prospective contributors. Speaking to current team members is always encouraging. We could even set up a system to send "easyfix" tasks to this mailing list giving folks a chance to work on them and learn in the process.
Guide/aid prospective contributors to turn into solid contributors. Rather than just pointing them to join.fp.o, talk to them, see what issues they face, help them decide where they want to get started.
To form better mentor-mentee relationships. Here, I mean "mentor" in the real sense of the word.
Give prospective contributors a communication channel to converse amongst themselves. This is very important. Take the Google Summer of Code mailing list for instance. It is set up specifically so that the candidates can talk to each other. Since they're all in the same boat, they feel more comfortable discussing certain issues amongst themselves. They'll also be aware of what different people are up to which will give them a better idea of what they can do. It would be great if they could discuss and share the cool stuff they've begun to do. It would surely be encouraging.

Basically, look for potential, not polish. We can help them gain the polish that established contributors have.

Communication

Mailing list: fedora-join
IRC: #fedora-join^[?] on irc.freenode.net
Telegram: https://t.me/joinfedora
Matrix: https://riot.im/app/#/room/%23freenode_%23fedora-join:matrix.org
Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/fedora

Meetings

The Fedora Join team hosts bi-weekly meetings. The next scheduled meeting can be found here. All meetings use the Fedora Join meeting template. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Meeting minutes are logged at Meetbot with links to past meeting minutes below.

Tasking

We use Pagure to manage tasks we are working on and issues we need help with. Submit a ticket if you need help from Fedora Join or help us with existing tickets by visiting our repository.

Ways to help

Blogging about Fedora
Teach classes
Help people new to Fedora
Mentor
Help with issues
Share ideas to make this SIG, and Fedora, better

Members

User Contributions

Check out some of our user contributions. Got something to share? Let us know.

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-==Background==
+== Fedora Join Special Interest Group ==
-We're looking to reduce the learning gradient that new folks need to hike up when they look to contribute to Fedora. Users looking to give back to the community is amazing. We need to go out and give them as much help as we can. The importance here is that most of them will be new to the work flows, SIGS, teams and processes that Fedora community uses. Quite a few of them will be new to Linux even. For these novices, learning all that is required to become contributors is a daunting task. However, what is important is that all of them have the *potential* to make awesome contributors!
+The Fedora Join Special Interest Group (SIG) aims to set up and maintain channels that let prospective contributors engage with the community. The idea here is to enable people looking to join the Fedora community to converse with existing members, make friends, find mentors, and get a feeling of what and how the community does in general, with a view to reduce the learning gradient that joining a new community entails - and make it more enjoyable!
-===Current work flow===
+==== Mission ====
-At the moment, this is how folks go about it:
-# Look at the join-fedora page
-# Select what they want to do
-# Join the various mailing lists
-# Start working, and learn while they work
+Different teams already have different, mostly well documented, SOPs (standard operating procedures) for joining their respective SIG. The infrastructure team is a great example of this. However, we often meet people who are unsure of how their skills fit into the community. We want to provide these people a channel where they can speak to existing members of the community, learn about what they do and use this information to find the right team to get started with. We help new members form relationships with members; we point them to the right resources - wiki or otherwise; and we expect that this should greatly improve the joining experience.
-===Issues===
+==== Goals ====
-Even though this works, there are a few issues here that we'd like to address:
-# Quite a few folks aren't sure what they want to do. The join fedora page is confusing for them at times. They don't know first hand what each role is about, so they aren't sure if they should join up SIG A or SIG B.
+# Set up a communication channel between the existing contributors and prospective contributors. Speaking to current team members is always encouraging. We could even set up a system to send "easyfix" tasks to this mailing list giving folks a chance to work on them and learn in the process.
-# The various mailing lists: devel, mktg, infra are work oriented. While we do guide newcomers that ask for help on the lists, these newcomers are usually scared to ask questions. They feel they'll make fools of themselves if they ask simple questions in front of established contributors.
+# Guide/aid prospective contributors to turn into solid contributors. Rather than just pointing them to join.fp.o, talk to them, see what issues they face, help them decide where they want to get started.
+# To form better mentor-mentee relationships. Here, I mean "mentor" in the real sense of the word.
+# Give prospective contributors a communication channel to converse amongst themselves. This is very important. Take the Google Summer of Code mailing list for instance. It is set up specifically so that the candidates can talk to each other. Since they're all in the same boat, they feel more comfortable discussing certain issues amongst themselves. They'll also be aware of what different people are up to which will give them a better idea of what they can do. It would be great if they could discuss and share the cool stuff they've begun to do. It would surely be encouraging.
+Basically, look for '''potential''', not '''polish'''. We can help them gain the polish that established contributors have.
+== Communication ==
+* '''Mailing list:''' {{fplist|fedora-join}}
+* '''IRC:''' {{fpchat|#fedora-join}}  on irc.freenode.net
+* '''Telegram''': https://t.me/joinfedora
+* '''Matrix''': https://riot.im/app/#/room/%23freenode_%23fedora-join:matrix.org
+* '''Discord''': https://discordapp.com/invite/fedora
+=== Meetings ===
+The Fedora Join team hosts bi-weekly meetings. The next scheduled meeting can be found [[Fedora_Join_SIG/Next_Meeting|here]]. All meetings use the [[Template:Fedora_Join_Meeting|Fedora Join meeting template]]. Everyone is welcome to attend.
+Meeting minutes are logged at [https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/fedora-join/ Meetbot] with links to past meeting minutes below.
+* [[Fedora_Join_SIG/Past_Meetings/2015|Meetings 2015]]
+* [[Fedora_Join_SIG/Past_Meetings/2016|Meetings 2016]]
+* [[Fedora_Join_SIG/Past_Meetings/2017|Meetings 2017]]
-Basically, the working mailing lists aren't exactly the best environment for new comers. They are task oriented. They aren't dedicated to aiding new comers. We also don't want lots of introductions etc. on the work mailing lists either. We want them to be dedicated to *work*.
+=== Tasking ===
-==IRC==
+We use [https://pagure.io Pagure] to manage tasks we are working on and issues we need help with. Submit a [https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/new_issue ticket] if you need help from Fedora Join or help us with existing tickets by visiting our [https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join repository].
-fedora-join on Freenode
-==Mailing list==
+== Ways to help ==
-fedora-join@lists.fp.o
-==Goal==
+* Blogging about Fedora
-# Set up a communication channel between the existing contributors and prospective contributors. Speaking to current team members is always encouraging. We could even set up a system to send "easyfix" tasks to this mailing list giving folks a chance to work on them and learn in the process.
+* [[Classroom|Teach classes]]
-# Guide/aid prospective contributors to turn into solid contributors. Rather than just pointing them to join.fp.o, talk to them, see what issues they face, help them decide where they want to get started.
+* Help people new to Fedora
-# Via these channels, form better mentor-mentee relationships. Here, I mean "mentor" in the real sense of the word.
+* Mentor
-# Give prospective contributors a communication channel to converse amongst themselves. This is very important. Take the Google Summer of Code mailing list for instance. It is set up specifically so that the candidates can talk to each other. Since they're all in the same boat, they feel more comfortable discussing certain issues amongst themselves. They'll also be aware of what different people are up to which will give them a better idea of what they can do. It would be great if they could discuss and share the cool stuff they've begun to do. It would surely be encouraging.
+* Help with [https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/issues issues]
+* Share ideas to make this SIG, and Fedora, better
-Basically, look for '''potential''', not '''polish'''. We can help them gain the polish that established contributors have.
+== Members ==
+* [[User:amsharma|amsharma]]
+* [[User:ankursinha|ankursinha]]
+* [[User:briangribble|briangribble]]
+* [[User:immanetize|immanetize]]
+* [[User:jflory7|jflory7]]
+* [[User:linuxmodder|linuxmodder]]
+* [[User:mailga|mailga]]
+* [[User:skamath|skamath]]
+* [[User:sadin | sadin]]
-==Members==
+== User Contributions ==
-* [[User:Ankursinha|Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"]]
-* Add your name here!
-==TO DO List==
+Check out some of our [[Fedora_Join_SIG/User_Contributions|user contributions]]. Got something to share? Let us know.
-. File ticket at infra to set up fedora-join mailing list
-. Set up IRC channel #fedora-join
-. File ticket with websites SIG to make tiny changes to join.fp.o to list Fedora-Join IRC and mailing list channels.
-. Get started!
-==IRC Meetings==
+[[Category:SIGs]]
-Not yet. Will decide a time and try to meet bi-weekly. Invite all potential contributors to these meetings and make them participate.

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