[OH-Publicity] This week's post: Discussing Kevin Carillo's newcomer experience survey

[Asheesh Laroia]

Excerpts from Asheesh Laroia's message of Mon Nov 12 03:29:20 -0500 2012:
> Excerpts from Asheesh Laroia's message of Sun Nov 11 22:17:07 -0500 2012:
> > Excerpts from Asheesh Laroia's message of Wed Nov 07 19:29:01 -0500 2012:
> > > Hello publicity peeps,
> > > 
> > > This week, I want to write about Kevin Carillo's academic and also 
> > > practical survey on "Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS 
> > > communities."
> > > 
> > > I've helped Kevin out by reviewing his survey and pointing him in the 
> > > direction of some hopefully friendly contacts at other projects.
> > > 
> > > For context, the landing page for the survey is here: 
> > > http://kevincarillo.org/survey-invitation/
> > > 
> > > For OH-Publicity's side, I hope to get the post written in the next 
> > > 1-2 days!
> > 
> > Pardon me -- I fell ill on Friday, so I couldn't get to this. I'm 
> > running a draft by Kevin now, and once he and I are sure what it should 
> > say, I'll post here, get y'all's review, and post it!
> > 
> > I think I'll use this photo 
> > https://secure.flickr.com/photos/51691575@N00/2541313664/ at the top of 
> > the post, since "grafting" is kind of like what it means to bring new 
> > contributors totally into the fold of an open source project.
> > 
> > -- Asheesh.
> 
> Draft at http://htmlpad.org/carillo-post/

Final draft here:

https://openhatch.org/blog/?p=1475&preview=true&preview_id=1475&public=1&nonce=8918a4ae7f

Feedback/review/thoughts definitely requested. I will hit 'publish' in 1 
hour, at 2:30 PM or so.

(Mike Linksvayer, thanks for your HTML tricks for doing CC attribution 
right on top of the image. I attempted to copy them faithfully and 
adjust them for this post.)

-- Asheesh.