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 20th 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<http://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?