I just picked this up. I recall the idea was sort of group mentoring.

Great if there is a way to group new joiners into categories/interests.

To match their needs with roles working groups/SIGs, we need a
consolidated list of roles we desperately need.

Currently, I see high level of imbalance of people who are flooding into
certain groups whereas another team is under-resourced for years.

This is a cursory view only. I would come back with new mindset after my
vacation.

On 09/03/2024 15:18, Ankur Sinha wrote:

ankursinha reported a new issue against the project: Fedora-Join that you are following:
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Hi folks,

Can I please ask you to take a look at this topic on discussion.fp.o?

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/organising-monthly-new-contributor-cohorts/107600/2

Especially new people---would this be helpful to you?
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To reply, visit the link below or just reply to this email
https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/issue/291

I think something like this would be a great idea. We could have like a monthly or whatever new person chat and question thing. Outside the of the Outreachy and Google Summer of Code I'm not aware of any mentoring or community building. (please corrector me if I'm wrong. I'm not really sure how those programs work).

Every month could be a different topic and someone from that Team could talk and answer questions, let people know about Fedora from their point of view. e.g. , Packaging & Development, Engineering Teams, Fedora Operations Architect, DEI Team, Mindshare Teams.
We could also maybe have members from some SIGs talk on certain days about whats up with their group and the best way to get involved.

I do think its important we do it in a voice or video call. Text chat is nice but something about being able to joke and talk in real time just hits different. Also putting a voice or face to someone really adds to the "we are real people doing real things" and would help people that might not know each other be less shy to communicate.

I think it would be a great idea to post about this newbie meeting on different subreddits, Discord severs that would allow it, maybe other open source project Fedora magazine equivalent or Gnome and KDEs news channels. Lmk and i'll get to posting and taking to other orgs. lol

I'm just spit balling but I think the idea of something like this is awesome.