ComDev Working Groups

  • Why we made them.

  • What they’re for.

  • Which ones have we started?

  • How to get involved.

A bit about ComDev

" …​ charged with coordinating community development efforts."

We are all ComDev

barn raising
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What’s a working group?

  • Like-minded people …​

  • working towards a common goal …​

  • collaboratively, in public

Welcome

welcome
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wg-wg

  • For discussion of cross-working-group norms, process, or tools

wg-wg: why?

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wg-advisors

  • Advising projecdts and PMCs on best practice

  • Seasoned ASF members and community managers

  • It’s important to respect a project’s autonomy

wg-advisors

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How?

  • Listen more than you speak

  • Get to know key people, and corporate participants, engaged in the project

  • Read board reports. Identify and solve problems

  • Mentor people attempting to become committers or PMC members, who don’t appear to be getting much support

  • Just generally …​ become a part of the community

wg-badging

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  • "Badges" to celebrate accomplishments

  • Still in idea phase - could use your help

Fedora badges

fedora badges

Why this is hard

reddit badges

wg-code-of-conduct

Code of conduct: What it’s NOT

  • NOT an enforcing body, nor are we requiring any project to do anything

  • NOT working on a Foundation-level global Code of Conduct

wg-social

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What wg-social might do

  • Identify places where there’s a concentration of ASF people, and encourage people visiting there to meet for a meal

  • Revive the map? (Needs to respect privacy laws!)

  • Gatherings at major tech events (FOSDEM, OSSummit, and so on)

  • Geeky movie night!

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ALC

See also ALC - Apache Local Communities - https://s.apache.org/alc - that’s something different.

wg-social-media

twitter

Questions to be addressed

  • Should we keep using Twitter?

  • Should we engage more in some other platform?

  • What kind of content do we want to post?

  • And, as always, the focus should remain on building strong ASF communities

wg-website

https://community.apache.org/

website

wg-welcome

  • Helping projects, and the ASF in general, be more welcoming

  • e.g. …​

    • helping projects write better project definitions

    • answering beginner questions on dev@community or elsewhere

wg-welcome - Sample answers

sample answer

Sample answers

  • Why?

    • Consistent messaging

    • Thorough, friendly answers with links

dive
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wg-your-idea-here

  • Is there something you’re passionate about and want to gather a group of like-minded people to work on it?

  • Propose your WG on dev@community.apache.org

How to communicate

wg email

Getting involved

  • Show up

  • Introduce yourself

  • Say what you want to work on

  • Then start doing it. You are allowed.

Other working groups

Working groups outside of ComDev

ORC WG

  • Open Regulatory Compliance working group

orc wg

Member-level working groups

  • Governance committee

  • Communication platforms WG

Not a working group, but …​

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More Info

https://community.apache.org/workinggroups

Questions?

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