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Please feel free to add other potential discussion points here.

Notes

Here are my DRAFT notes from the meeting:

• Wiki Markup
  Infrastructure \[ACTION\] BD

• Mailing lists - See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2304
  • comdev-private@
  • comdev@
  • community@
    • Cross project interaction
  • code-awards@
    • GSoC only
    • privately archived
• SVN - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2305
  • comdev
• Web
  • apache.org/community
    • Confluence - see http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEVxSITE/Index
    • Skinned
      • Nick B.
  • Content
    • HTML page first instance
      • What do we do?
      • Mailing lists
    • List of mentors
    • List of mentees
• JIRA - see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2303
  • comdev
• Three month goals

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  Nail down mentoring program \[ACTION\] KM

  • Here are my notes from the (separate) BarCamp session on this
    • Who starts the project idea
• Students suggest
  • projects can propose
    • projects need not be code only (as GSoC is)
    • Official mentor needs to be a committer
  • Actual mentor may be community
  • Must ensure patches are applied quickly
    • we need to list expectations for mentor and mentee
    • mentor network
  • real people to talk to
  • not necessarily related to the mentees project
  • foundation rather than project mentors

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  link with incubator \[ACTION\] RG

  • documentation on being a committer
  • Factor out the "how do you participate in the community"

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  link with TAC \[ACTION\] RG

  • would they set aside a part of their budget for bringing mentees together

    • Wiki Markup
      Nick Burch was present at the meeting and asked to be a member of the PMC \[ACTION\] RG

• Event calendar
  • Byelaws
    • PMC members need not be ASF Members
    • Do Members have right to ask for membership?
• Other goals
• Run a meetup to introduce people to easy community tasks
• Encourage projects to have managed release cycles for closer integration with commercial activities
• people.apache.org
• project.apache.org
  • Melange (Google GSoC application)
    • Do we want to use it for tracking?
      

In addition to the notes above from this meeting I provide my notes from Kirrily Robert's keynote. They may be useful for future work:

• Educate yourself
  • Read Opening the Clubhouse
• Pay attention
  • See exclusive activity
• Recruit diversity
  • reach out to minority groups
• Be relevent
  • communicate use of project outputs
  • some people are not focussed on the technology but the uses
• Say it. Mean it.
  • Code of conduct
    • See Ubuntu or Debian
  • Enforce it
• Transparency
• Tools
  • identify easy issues for newcomers
  • Discourage people from cleaning the easy queue
• Mentoring
• Value all contributions
  
  

Who

Current volunteers include:

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