[OH-Dev] Fwd: [GSoC Mentors] [Announce] Call for Proposals for Doc Sprint Summit v2.0

[Asheesh Laroia]

Excerpts from Asheesh Laroia's message of Thu Oct 25 10:41:48 -0400 2012:
> Excerpts from Karen Rustad's message of Mon Oct 15 17:35:53 -0400 2012:
> > I'm in favor of this. Asheesh, can you take the lead on writing a proposal?
> 
> I'm on it. Sorry about the delay!

Here's the form: 
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDl6QWlMbDFjcVF2Z1EyQ1d1b1NyN1E6MQ

Here are the answers I intend to fill in. I'll accept feedback for ~12 
hours, and after that, submit. (It's due tomorrow.)

One important question: to anyone reading this, are you someone who 
would want to participate? Read in full, and if so, reply to me 
off-list.

Q. Project or individual?

A. Project

Q. Name of project:

A. OpenHatch

Q. email address:

A. (my email)

Q. phone number:

A. (my phone)

Q. Are you, the nominated project, associated with a current or past 
GSoC project?

A. Other: Did GSoC 2010 through "OSPO" catch-all

Q. Projects only : Please outline in brief detail how the nominated 
project would benefit from attending the 2012 GSoC Doc Camp.

A.

In summer 2012, Karen Rustad and Asheesh Laroia gave a talk at OSCON and 
released a sketch of the content here: 
https://openhatch.org/wiki/Cookbook . Attending the conference would 
help us include outreach efforts that projects in attendance have 
attempted. It would also give us a high-bandwidth, in-person opportunity 
to write together.

Q. Projects only : Propose a topic of the Book Sprint and outline 
in a few sentences what you would like to cover.

A.

Topic (a few words): The OpenHatch outreach cookbook

Abstract (a sentence): Community-minded leaders of open source projects 
have tried many efforts to bring in new contributors; this book 
documents the successful approaches in a format that any project 
maintainer can pick up and run with.

Outline (a few sentences): 

* We will review different projects' approaches to labeling bugs as 
bitesized, ranging from the bad to the good, showing what separates the 
good projects from the bad.

* We will review a sample of successful Google Summer of Code 
experiences and compare them to KDE's Season of KDE, including working 
with Lydia Pintscher to identify comparable metrics. We will also 
compare this with the GNOME Outreach Program for Women.

* We will provide a brief HOWTO for "Build It" (as run by Vidalia and 
Debian-Women), Fedora Design Bounties, and other tactics to welcome 
newcomers, including report on how well they have worked.

Q. Projects only : List up to 5 individuals that you would like to 
attend. Please provide the country (and state if appropriate) they would 
travel from, and one or two lines about why each person is a good 
candidate. Indicate those who would require full or partial travel 
assistance.

A.

Asheesh Laroia (USA, NY or CA). Asheesh is co-founder of OpenHatch and 
has been working in free software advocacy for some time, and enjoys 
hearing about, advising projects, and giving talks on outreach such as 
"Debian for Shy People" at Debconf 2010.

Karen Rustad (USA, CA). Karen is a board member of OpenHatch and has 
given talks at OSCON and PyCon about diversity and outreach in free 
software.

Mike Linksvayer (USA, CA). Mike is a board member of OpenHatch and comes 
from an economics and free software background; he has extensive 
non-profit management experience through his time as CTO and VP of 
Creative Commons, where he has watched a wide variety of collaborative 
projects. His concise, frank writing style will help keep our book 
sprint focused.

(Jessica? Deb? Others want in? If we have >5 people, we'll have to have 
some process to pick people. I'm also going to ask mizmo of Fedora 
Design Bounties and Marina of GNOME Outreach Program for Women and see 
if they want to join in.)

-- Asheesh.