We had our first meeting today.  The notes from our discussion are below.  Thanks to the people who joined!

We will meet again on June 20^th at 6:30AM PDT (1330 UTC)

Agenda (on https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/stx-first-contact)

· Matthew from the OpenStack FC SIG joined!

• A place for people to get started

• Help new contributors get connected to projects and project teams

• Worked wtih the Foundation to set up a new Contributor portal

§ www.openstack.org/community

§ docs.openstack.org/contributors

• Noticed that patches from new contributors didn't always get attention

• Gerrit bot tells people when their first patch goes in

• Monitor IRC and mailing list

• ask.openstack.org portal, looking for new contributors

• Wiki page should show timezones so people can connect to people near them

• Seeing barriers for Chinese contributors even though we see lots of activity there

§ Some simple things like knowing which ports to open (IRC, gerrit, etc..) can be helpful

• Looking to do outreach at the Shanghai summit

• Seeing some companies "bombard" projects with lots of tiny fixes - looking to reach out to them

• One of the hardest parts is getting new contributors to submit a 2nd/3rd patch set for their first change

• Each project has a liaison who the FC SIG will put on reviews for new contributors

• What barriers do you see from the project teams themselves?

§ In the past we saw many companies assigning people to be full time contributors but we don't see that any more

§ Now we are seeing people who want to work on OpenStack but it isn't part of their job

· They need access to bigger machines / clouds which can be hard for them (and the community)

• We don't do office hours but we do sessions at the Summit - but we only had a few walk-ins @ Denver

• Ask Liaisons to monitor IRC and help answer questions

• Scope of the OpenStack FC SIG is both contributors and users/operators - intended to be all inclusive

§ All can make important contributions to the project - code, docs, translations, bugs reports/fixes, feedback, etc...

· Glenn - I was on a call yesterday with a company that is very interested in getting involved in STX.  

• Asked them - how do they envision working in StarlingX - they are shy, they are not going to just start contributing code or filing bugs

• They want to try to do things themselves - where can I download the code, how do I run the software, how do I file bugs?

• We need to continue making the wiki and documents easier to consume for new contributors

· Goals and mission - did not cover

· Meeting time (this slot is available bi-weekly)

• We will continue this bi-weekly in this time slot

· Next steps - did not directly cover

• What do new contributors need?  

• How can we help them?

• What can we learn / borrow from the OpenStack First Contact SIG?  https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/First_Contact_SIG

• How do we manage the work of helping new contributors?

• What tools, documents, improvements, etc… are needed?