First Contact Team

At the EuroBSDCon 2015 Dev Summit Recruiting session, the idea was raised to have a team of people who would be potential new contributors first contacts in the community. Rather than suggesting that they send a mail to a mailing list which might go unanswered, the idea is to identify a team of FreeBSD community members who are best suited to onboarding potential new contributors and shepherding them into the project.

• Attract more people to the project
• Ensure that people who do attempt to contribute receive feedback instead of crickets
• Ensure that the feedback first time contributors receive is positive
• Extend the idea of 'Doc Sprints' online
• Develop a high quality onboarding guide

• WebRTC (talky.io, appear.in, etc)
• Google Hangouts (do they work on FreeBSD?)
• Mumble (voice only, some people may want to avoid video, or not have the bandwidth for video hangouts)
• IRC (put up a page somewhere with mibbit, a javascript IRC client that allows people to join IRC without installing anything)

• AllanJude

• Signup for Bugzilla
• Signup for Phabricator (why is this separate? What happened to the idea of SSO via github etc?)

• Integrate automatic build testing of patches into Phabricator
• Generate more documentation on getting started, that isn't from the 90s

• DanLangille's “Contributing to Open Source” workshop
• Brian Callah's Lab on contributing documentation patches to Open Source