Re: FOSDEM 2023 Update

2023-02-08 Thread Jarek Potiuk
Fantastic recap Sharan. And very close to my observations.(I had no idea about the rain though and I kinda hoped it was "exceptionally wet" this year, so I might get better prepared next year in anticipation of how it **really** can look like:D. Some comments from my side now after I recovered a b

Re: Thoughts From a Newcomer

2023-02-08 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Melissa, Melissa Foulks wrote: > ...I've put together some thoughts about my experience thus far, and > some suggestions for how to potentially make onboarding easier for the new > volunteer... This is great, thank you! I'd say the ASF is a do-ocracy, things happen when people step up to mak

Re: Idea: build a New Contributor Guide Tool

2023-02-08 Thread Jarek Potiuk
I had some interesting discussions about it at FOSDEM and similar topics popped up - how to make first-time/new contributor onboarding more engaging and welcoming and helped, but at the same time not to over-burden ourselves with mostly repetitive questions/answers. And I would love to carry this

Re: Thoughts From a Newcomer

2023-02-08 Thread Matthew O'Brien
Hi Bertrand Thanks for this, as someone new to OSS, it’s good to know that others have used their time to outline commonly known questions such that it helps those learning not spending time going down paths unguided. Now if only I could stop reading duplicitous meanings into things as a resul

Re: Idea: build a New Contributor Guide Tool

2023-02-08 Thread Shane Curcuru
Yeah, in terms of using some AI tool here... I haven't had enough hot caffeinated beverage yet to even think about it. But one thing: Jarek Potiuk wrote on 2/8/23 7:08 AM: ...snip... I looked at the proposal and with the CYOA engines, one of the problems is that you have to script it and inves

Re: Idea: build a New Contributor Guide Tool

2023-02-08 Thread Craig Russell
As an experiment, I logged into chat.openai.com and asked it to tell me how to contribute code to Apache. [1] Then I asked why the ICLA is needed. [2] These AI are smarter than we might think, I expect that refining the questions and editing the replies might be easier than creating the content

Re: Thoughts From a Newcomer

2023-02-08 Thread Andrew Wetmore
Very glad to see this, MJ. Understanding what the newbie experience is at the moment and how it differs from what we might desire will help us make a better, more welcoming experience. a On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 5:11 PM Melissa Foulks wrote: > Hi everyone! I'm MJ, a brand new volunteer. You may

Re: Idea: build a New Contributor Guide Tool

2023-02-08 Thread Ayush Saxena
That sounds so cool and magical Craig🙂 OpenAi seems pretty smart, Impressive!!! Makes sense to me to do some improvemenrs there (If my opinion counts), that might be very helpfull may not be very much immediately but for sure in the near future. -Ayush > > On 09-Feb-2023, at 12:50 AM, Craig R

Re: Idea: build a New Contributor Guide Tool

2023-02-08 Thread Jarek Potiuk
Yep. That's what those chatbots can do now. And what's even more interesting, the answers it gives are getting deeper and deeper (and more accurate) as long as you ask more refined questions. There are of course risks involved, but I am equally impressive how good and legible answers the bots prov

[GitHub] [comdev-site] clr-apache commented on pull request #82: Update newcommitter.md

2023-02-08 Thread via GitHub
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RE: Permission to use the Cassandra name for a virtual event

2023-02-08 Thread Mick Semb Wever
On 2023/02/03 00:14:33 Patrick McFadin wrote: > Hi again PMC, > > As I mentioned in my last email, I’ve been working with the DataStax team on quickly arranging a virtual conference on March 14th. Keeping the momentum we have in the project is very important. There’s a lot of great things coming in

Regarding contribution

2023-02-08 Thread Simran Saini
Greetings of the day, I am interested to be a part of your organization . Can you please suggest me some good first issues. Simran