Related to #68.
We wanted to plan a "hack challenge" or interactive session for OSCAL 2018 attendees at the Fedora booth we have. The idea is that we reward successful contributions with unique / special Fedora swag, like a t-shirt. This would help promote better engagement with the Fedora community and hopefully make a path for someone to get involved.
Metadata Update from @jflory7: - Issue marked as blocking: #68
Discussed in 2018-05-04 meeting.
To plan the contribution challenge, we identified these three things as planning requirements:
We decided to go with a special Fedora Badge in lieu of swag because we won't be able to get something more unique than stickers in time for OSCAL. We will start the process for a new event attendee badge and then a special one for anyone who makes a single contribution to Fedora during the weekend (similar to this BrickHack badge idea).
I will file both of these tickets.
We need to come up with an explanation for the contributor challenge to make sure we explain it well at OSCAL (and hopefully get some people to jump in and contribute). The pitch should probably cover:
We have meeting notes and discussion that covers this already, but we can "formalize" the pitch when we are together before OSCAL begins.
This is the most work to do before OSCAL.
We need to identify good types of tasks for people to do on the fly in the middle of a conference. We might be able to identify some easy documentation fixes ( @bex, any ideas?? ), how to make a translation, or other things.
We'll need to think about this more before OSCAL. We ran out of time in the meeting today to expand on this, but we will work on it before OSCAL.
Random idea I thought of after, but we could award the contribution badge automatically by running a fedmsg query that checks for events between May 19-20 from FAS accounts with Albania set as their country.
This is a bonus points thing, but could be cool to trial and experiment for creative badge awarding at other events across Fedora.
Nice idea overall... few concerns - https://fedoraproject.org/easyfix/ points to mostly all the projects in Fedora, do we have enough people to guide for all these projects and issues listed there?
Another one is, when exactly we will be running this, it will be during the whole event or any specific date and time?
What if people use VPN? We would need a manual system in addition to this.
It's a cool idea but we also need to understand the restrictions. I am not sure this would work for a country like India, where we have a lot of contributors and they are also pretty spread out.
We had a poster and promoted this hack challenge at booth and meetups. People who contributed during OSCAL could get an OSCAL attendee badge.
Easy contributions which were promoted for hack challenge:
Translate strings from english to albanian in zanata
Fedora easyfix issues
Tagging packages
testing bodhi kernel/ updates
Results: A lot of people were interested in the whatcanidoforfedora.org and easyfix issues website. However, I dont know of anyone who actually contributed during the conference and a lot of people also said that they might not be able to because of the different talks/ workshops going on simaltenously. However, most of them expressed concern about difficulty in starting to contribute as a newcomer and having this challenge helped us show the low barriers to entry to Fedora community. I am positive this helped them get a foot in the door to start contributing after the conference. The hack challenge also helped create a lot of buzz around Fedora.
Since the event is over, I am closing this ticket.
Metadata Update from @bee2502: - Issue close_status updated to: Complete - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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