I'd like to see if we can get designers involved. I noted that there are some boot camps for UX and design. They pick up projects for class to design a brand or a new site or service. Why not get them involved with open source? Apache has a lot of projects with sites that could use help, and ours, especially the new one could use help.
I think designers would benefit as they'd have a public portfolio piece that they can reference plus they would get to learn all about the open source tools and meet folks. Having worked on an open source project is impressive, more so than designing a site or app that never launched. Even small examples that are like mini apps could get a face lift. The docs could even get help with graphics that explain how stuff works. People that do data visualization could have a productive time working with ML as well. Having more creatives in the open source community, not just MXNet, would be great for diversity. Cheers, Aaron On Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 07:10 Isabel Drost-Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am 2. März 2019 15:13:23 MEZ schrieb Carin Meier <[email protected]>: > >I wanted to kickoff a discussion about community building. There was an > >excellent blog post from the Apache Beam Community on this > >https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/entry/an-approach-to-community-building > > Needless to say I really love that blog post. > > Other than that there are a couple of question you might ask yourself as a > community: > > How easy is it to patriciate as an outsider, how much communication is > happening outside of dev@? > > How explicit are you about how inclusive you want to be? See also > https://youtu.be/LgB1s3buccI > > How explicit are you about where you need help (including and beyond > coding)? > > How explicit are you with downstream users that some of the inner workings > of Apache projects are build around a scratch your own itch casual > contributions that ideally should be rewarded the same way as full-time > contributions ( > https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/success-at-apache-for-love )? > > I think you want to enable as many ppl as possible - typically only ten > percent of your users turn into contributor, of those only ten percent > trend to be repeat contributors... at least in my experience. > > Just some ideas, > Isabel > -- > Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet. >
