Engagement GUADEC 2020 Bof notes

OliverPropst · September 3, 2020, 1:23pm

The Engagement’s team’s Bof notes from GUADEC 2020

Attendees

Agenda

Review and action items

Topics:

On-boarding process initiative

Metrics CHAOSS
What are the goals that engagement team should archive on 2021? Where would you like to see it in 1 year period?
Metrics, FAQ, and transparency about internal decisions.
Why Maintainers/Developers chose to do A,B,C
Why it’s important to publicly announce our technical decisions?
GNOME.org Redesign
What are we doing?
What needs to be done? Content? Design? Etc…

Action Plans

Faces of GNOME… What’s next?
What should we do to improve the Engagement/Conversion-Rate on our Communities ?
What can we do for the GNOME.org redesign?
How can we progress with the Moderation Initiative?
What are the next steps for the On-boarding Initiative?

Faces of GNOME

a face book (not a Facebook)]
this should move to faces.gnome.org at some point
Namespace clash with Friends of GNOME (GNOME Faces, GNOMEies?)
Can you share the link to Gnomebook? j/k but can you share the link? https://teams.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/Engagement/websites/contributors-index/
design work needed
Props to @Sri and the Onboarding Initiative!
What are criteria for joining?
Manually approved and merged
Must fit into a category
Age minimum
Todo: define what counts as a “contribution”
Someone needs to make sure things are up-to-date
Set a schedule for updating
ACTION ITEM: Define qualifications for being listed and the procedure to become listed, Create an Issue on GitLab (@Claudio)

Rocket.chat

We love it! Thanks!
Technically not “official,” but a lot of IRC use has been deprecated* (* no longer used)
Rocket.chat has some nice features. Good job, rocketchat!
ACTION ITEM: Help teams state whether they use IRC or rocket.chat for their official communications and/or make a database/list
ACTION ITEM: Write a post for the Engagement Blog about communication channels (e.g. rocketchat, discourse, etc)
ACTION ITEM: Update the wiki to include list of channels on rocketchat/IRC
Might end up being a big project
@Monica volunteered to spearhead – tag @madhens on the Gitlab issue
Add directory to welcome message to https://chat.gnome.org/directory/channels-
Announcement that we have moved the official conversation to Rocket chat.

Managing Communities

Reddit and Discourse aren’t always easy to moderate, manage, and take care of
Is Reddit an official GNOME communication channel? Unknown.
If the moderators of reddit leave then it will fall back on staff. Is the time of staff worth it?
Unique conversations happen on Reddit, which are valuable; lots of people are there.
@federico and the Onboarding Initiative!
What are criteria for joining?
Manually approved and merged
Must fit into a category
Age minimum
Todo: define what counts as a “contribution”
Someone needs to make sure things are up-to-date
Set a schedule for updating
ACTION ITEM:* Define qualifications for being listed and the procedure to become listed, Create an Issue on GitLab (@Claudio)

Rocket.chat

We love it! Thanks!
Technically not “official,” but a lot of IRC use has been deprecated* (* no longer used)
Rocket.chat has some nice features. Good job, rocketchat!
ACTION ITEM: help teams state whether they use IRC or rocket.chat for their official communications and/or make a database/list
ACTION ITEM: Write a post for the Engagement Blog about communication channels (e.g. rocketchat, discourse, etc)
ACTION ITEM: Update the wiki to include list of channels on rocketchat/IRC
Might end up being a big project
@Monica volunteered to spearhead – tag @madhens on the Gitlab issue
Add directory to welcome message to https://chat.gnome.org/directory/channels-
Announcement that we have moved the official conversation to Rocket chat.

Managing Communities

Reddit and Discourse aren’t always easy to moderate, manage, and take care of
Is Reddit an official GNOME communication channel? Unknown.
If the moderators of reddit leave then it will fall back on staff. Is the time of staff worth it?
Unique conversations happen on Reddit, which are valuable; lots of people are there.
@Federico provides example of how [[https://www.rust-lang.org/|Rust]] uses it – use it, people participate, when actual issues arise redirect to official GNOME channels

Events platform

We now use Indico. Thanks, @Britt et. all
Sections/Categories specifically for official events; others exist for meetups, local events, etc

Onboarding Process Initiative

CHAOSS project collaboration
Asking: What does GNOME have to document? What can we measure?
Relevant to GSoC work/etc.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Engagement/initiatives/scalable-onboarding
Newcomers and mentor matching would be cool, but it’s important to set expectations
Engagement Team should allow new contributors go through the newcomers channel

G.O redesign

@Bart and @Britt are working on this
It’s going to be in WordPress
Evan worked on terrifying @ WordPress revamps for a while, so if you ever want to ping me
Yay
ACTION ITEM: Set up check-in/update meeting, @Kristi

2021 Planning

This will happen at a future meeting
ACTION ITEM: Run a poll to schedule meeting time @Kristi
Plan working group meetings, and then in the monthly meetings groups will check in with everyone
ACTION ITEM: Discuss decision making process and division of labor @Kristi

system · September 17, 2020, 1:32pm

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