Activity Report for Contributors
About this document
This documents contain the guidelines for a general activity report to be used for contributors in order to track their tasks in the project.
How it works
Basically each contributor need to maintain an entry in his/her personal wiki (usually under User:johndoe/report) containing a table with some fields, which are going to be better described bellow:
Fields in a report
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Date | The date when the activity happened, using the format YYYY-MM-DD. It will be used as reference to create statistics graphics about contributions of team. |
| City | The city where the event took place (in case it is a event), otherwise where the contributor is currently living. |
| State | State where the city mentioned in item above is in, using the two-letter format. It will help us to identify where we need to invest more efforts. |
| Activity | This field holds usually the name of an event, however "Fedora Project" can be used for general activities (such as writing a document like this) or "FXX" for tasks performed during a given release (such as translating a new potfile, or changing a spec file). |
| Role | This field describes the nature of activity performed by the contributor:
|
| Description | As the name suggests, this field holds a description of the activity. It's important to invest some time here providing detailed information and specially external references so people can understand what has been done. |
| Role | Description |
|---|---|
| Ambassador | The role "Ambassador" can be used for tasks such as representing the project in an event, presenting a keynote, talking to people at the booth, making some demonstration etc). |
| Packager | The role "Packager" can be used for tasks like creation, maintenance, review or testing a new RPM package for Fedora. |
| Designer | The role "Designer" can be used for artwork related tasks like creating art for banners, stickers, labels and so on. |
| Translator | The role "Translator" can be used for i18n or l10n tasks, such as translating a potfile, a document, a page in Fedora wiki and so on. |
| Marketing | The role "Marketing" can be used for tasks to promote the project, such as posting in Social Networks (Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook, Google+) or general blog posts about Fedora (make sure your blog is linked in Fedora Planet so other people can see your posts!) |
| Mentor | The role "Mentor" can be used for mentoring activities helping candidates to Ambassadors Project to follow the steps required to join the group. |
| Organizer | The role "Organizer" can be use for organization tasks such as events, local projects etc. |
Date
The date when the activity happened, using the format YYYY-MM-DD. It will be used as reference to create statistics graphics about contributions of team.
City
The city where the event took place (in case it is a event), otherwise where the contributor is currently living.
State
State where the city mentioned in item above is in, using the two-letter format. It will help us to identify where we need to invest more efforts.
Activity
This field holds usually the name of an event, however "Fedora Project" can be used for general activities (such as writing a document like this) or "FXX" for tasks performed during a given release (such as translating a new potfile, or changing a spec file).
Role
Ambassador
The role "Ambassador" can be used for tasks such as representing the project in an event, presenting a keynote, talking to people at the booth, making some demonstration etc).
Packager
The role "Packager" can be used for tasks like creation, maintenance, review or testing a new RPM package for Fedora.
Designer
The role "Designer" can be used for artwork related tasks like creating art for banners, stickers, labels and so on.
Translator
The role "Translator" can be used for i18n or l10n tasks, such as translating a potfile, a document, a page in Fedora wiki and so on.
Marketing
The role "Marketing" can be used for tasks to promote the project, such as posting in Social Networks (Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook, Google+) or general blog posts about Fedora (make sure your blog is linked in Fedora Planet so other people can see your posts!)
Mentor
The role "Mentor" can be used for mentoring activities helping candidates to Ambassadors Project to follow the steps required to join the group.
Organizer
The role "Organizer" can be use for organization tasks such as events, local projects etc.
Description
As the name suggests, this field holds a description of the activity. It's important to invest some time here providing detailed information and specially external references so people can understand what has been done.
Template for a report
Bellow a template for a activity report:
| Date | City | State | Activity | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-08-25 | Sao Paulo | SP | Install Fest | Organizer | I took the opportunity of an invitation from a local University and organized a small install fest for their students. I also spoke for about 30 students about the project and distributed F17 DVDs. A posted on my blog a report about the install fest and some pictures I took. The slides I used are here |
| 2013-04-29 | Sao Paulo | SP | FooConf | Ambassador | I presented a talk about Fedora for an audience of 10 people and distributed F19 DVDs and stickers I had with me. Met some people interested to work in packaging and asked them to contact Itamar and one student is interested to contribute as Ambassador. A report of the event with pictures is available here and the slides I used are here |
| 2013-06-01 | Sao Paulo | SP | Technical FAD SP | Translator | During a FAD I worked in the translation of 3 potfiles from project foobar, to make them available in pt_BR in F19. For more information, please refer my profile in Transifex. |
| 2013-06-01 | Sao Paulo | SP | Technical FAD SP | Packager | I packaged foobar application which was not available for Fedora, and at this moment it is waiting for revision. For more information, please refer this Bugzilla. |