FirstContactTeam [FreeBSD WIKI]

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====== 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.

===== Goals =====
  * 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

===== Tools =====
  * %%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)

===== People =====
  * AllanJude

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

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

==== Resources ====
  * DanLangille's "Contributing to Open Source" workshop
  * Brian Callah's Lab on [[https://github.com/rcos/CSCI2961-01/blob/master/Labs/Lab4.Md|contributing documentation patches to Open Source]]

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