I've been thinking about this for the past couple of days, and I think the badges are a powerful "motivator" to engage potential or would-be contributors to become more involved, especially with university students. Not sure what you guys would think about this, but what about doing team "Badge-athons", where maybe teams can select a few of the easyfix tasks and combine those with the objectives that are already set up (mostly) by badges. Then, I think it will be easier for current contributors to have definite objectives, e.g. "here's goal one, goal two, goal three, try doing task x and task y to earn these badges" sort of thing. In terms of what team to begin with, perhaps since the release is so close and if we'd want to organize something close to F23, I think the marketing team may be a good first candidate? The Magazine is a possible starting place, or perhaps some of the tasks surrounding the wiki or other areas. As for when, it's obviously going to depend on the schedule of each individual team that has their own Join Day, but I would perhaps think spacing them apart by a few weeks would provide us with enough time to plan and execute the event. The planning time may fluctuate between teams too, but I'm not well-versed enough to have a definite idea for that. For rewards, I think in the big picture, badges are the "quick" reward for participants to get, but I think trying to incorporate the foundations of Fedora, particularly with community, would be the thing that turns the one-time contributor into a regular. Having multiple people around for the team would probably help contribute to this, so it should definitely be a prerogative for the team (which leads me to another question I'm still confused on, is this something the Join SIG works on or is it delegated to each individual team with assistance from the Join SIG?). Having badges for community members that help out is a good idea too. As for post-join day activities, I think encouraging blogging to Fedora Planet is a good idea to help the participants become more involved - I know it would probably be a super cool thing for someone who does this and writes about it to have a bunch of the people that helped them get started like / share / comment on their blog entry. Anyways, this is just some of my take on this, curious as to what the rest of you think. Cheers, ------------ Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

On 10/21/2015 05:11 AM, Gabriele Trombini wrote: I take it you meant badges instead of t-shirts? In either case, I think the "Fedora User" idea partially exists already in signing the FPCA. However, I *really* like the idea of a badge like Fedorian/Fedoran - do you think that decause's ticket here (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/ticket/409) is similar to this goal? As for the Contributor idea, I'm a big fan of that idea too - I actually have a ticket for a similar badge that I submitted a couple weeks ago (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/ticket/407). I had a hunch about being close to the release cycle seeing as how close it is, so that's no problem. Like mentioned in your reply to Ankur, I think the non-technical groups would be the best places to begin, and we can try to craft the best way of going about it with these groups and apply what works and what doesn't to the groups that aren't as represented in this SIG as of now. For the Magazine, we have our weekly meeting on Thursdays, 17:00 to 18:00 in US EST time zone. Not sure if you're awake then, but I regularly attend that meeting and I can bring it up tomorrow if that's something we want to go ahead and start discussing. True - only thing I would imagine is if they proactively shared their blog post with us afterwards. But in retrospect, I don't think it's something to focus on anyways. I think this is an exciting idea, I know I definitely want to help out with the Marketing join-day - seems like it would be fun anyways. :) -- Cheers, ------------ Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

In my FLUG we are going to cut a 15inch Cake, served with coffee. If you don't want cake, there will be other cold refreshments. About 35cm diameter. Regards  Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein Montréal Québec, Canada From: Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com&gt; To: Fedora Join Mailing list <fedora-join(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 9:29 AM Subject: [Fedora-join] Meeting logs and summary - and work to be done Hi everyone, Thank you for making time to attend the meeting. We had quite a constructive meeting. In short, we discussed what the best way to go forward from here is. What can be done is broadly divided into - tooling and non-tooling tasks.  By tooling, we mean things like "whatcanidoforfedora", join.fp.o and so on. At some point, we'd like to unify the join process followed by different teams since they all do have quite a few common steps to begin with - creation of an FAS account system, for example. Now, we're all aware that we're going to have a new fedora hubs system in place soon. We spoke to robyduck from the websites team and he clarified quite a few things for us: - hubs is like an intranet for contributors - so, you need to have an fas account to access the hubs - there will be pages for joining new teams but the details on how this will be implemented still need to be fleshed out - the wiki has too much stuff on it and will continue to exist So, basically, we decided to leave the tooling part for the moment, quite simply because we want to wait until the hubs are up and then decide on what we need to modify/improve. This brings us to the non tooling tasks - ideas for people, as randomuser put it - how can we engage better with newbies ourselves instead of making them interact the wiki or the join tool and so on. For this, we came up with the idea of "join days". Think of them as test-days, but for different teams: - on a fixed frequency, say monthly, we'll speak to one Fedora team and set up a "team join day". - we'll keep a set of simple tasks ready for this day - easyfix and so on - we'll try and get contributors from the selected team to hang around to speak to the newbies and help them out - we'll spread the word about this - magazine, personal blogs, twitter and so on (try and make heavy use of the marketing resources at Fedora's disposal) - newbies come, we speak to them, we walk them through the join process, we get them to do a simple task and therefore contribute to the functioning of the team - they get to do some work, they get to join Fedora, they get to know some of the team's contributors - the teams get new contributors and also get some of their simple tasks done - if we can focus on universities and student groups (commops is speaking about a university outreach program for example), that'd be awesome too So, we need to work on: - which team to begin with? Ideas? (Keeping in mind that F23 is release soon - something coinciding with the release would be nice) - when do we do the join day - rewards - newbies get a badge for joining the community anyway. Should we have a badge for community members that help out? - metrics to collect - community members involved, newbies involved, work done, *what else*? - after the join day - get newbies and contributors to write about their experiences (feedback?) - what else? The logs are below: Meeting started by FranciscoD_ at 20:02:35 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-join/2015-10-16/fedora-join.201 5-10-16-20.02.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * rollcall  (FranciscoD_, 20:02:51) * flock summary  (FranciscoD_, 20:05:39)   * IDEA: merge join processes of different Fedora teams  (FranciscoD_,     20:16:04)   * IDEA: join.fp.o redo  (FranciscoD_, 20:16:36)   * IDEA: integrate "join days" with release tasks  (FranciscoD_,     20:35:35)   * LINK: http://developer.fedorainfracloud.org/   (FranciscoD_,     20:59:07) Meeting ended at 21:20:32 UTC. Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot     https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-join/2015-10-16/fedora -join.2015-10-16-20.02.html -- You received this message due to your preference settings at https://apps.fedoraproject.org/notifications/fmnmeetingminutes.id.fedor aproject.org/email/29368 _______________________________________________ meetingminutes mailing list meetingminutes(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/meetingminutes _______________________________________________ fedora-join mailing list fedora-join(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-join