[Eg-oversight-board] Ideas for fostering community participation: survey, IRC practice time

[Rogan Hamby]

"However, I was thinking it might also be nice if there could be a standing
agenda item where Evergreen sites might talk about Evergreen projects
(development or otherwise) that they are currently planning/working on. It
would be a good way for the community to hear what others are doing and
maybe join together on projects of mutual interest."

+1


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org> wrote:

> Hi Yamil,
>
>
> On 8/14/2013 3:06 PM, Yamil Suarez wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I wanted to bring up a couple of things by email instead of during the
>> EOB meeting or perhaps both. As a board we had discussed how we could
>> increase community participation. Also, as a member of DIG I am trying to
>> increase DIG participation, specially since participation has been down
>> recently. At DIG's August monthly meeting I suggested two ideas that run
>> parallel to the board's interest, and I wanted to share them with the board.
>>
>> My first suggestion was to create a DIG participation survey to see what
>> is keeping people from participating in DIG, how to better influence them
>> to participate, and to gauge their current understanding of DIG. We are
>> still just starting to plan this survey, but I wondered if the EOB would
>> like to eventually use a similar approach of creating a general or targeted
>> survey. For example, to get a better understanding of what is keeping folks
>> from participating, and to get ideas of how they can be influence, etc.
>>
> +1
>
> The DIG survey might be a nice way to see how a survey will work and to
> further adapt the approach based on what we learn.
>
>
>
>> My second idea, inspired by the DIG survey discussion is to offer IRC
>> training and practice time. Kathy already made a very nice tutorial page
>> for using IRC [1], though I can't seem to find a link from the chat page[2]
>> to it. I would like to try officially reserving a time on the EG IRC
>> channel for people to practice using IRC commands without feeling like they
>> are interrupting others or that they will embarrass themselves. I would
>> specifically like to schedule this practice time soon after one of our
>> conferences where excitement will be hopefully still be running high.
>> Though we can also have this meeting at a different time of the year, or
>> more than once.
>>
> +1
>
>  I've made a mental not to add the quick start guide to the IRC page, but,
> since the community web site is moving to WordPress soon, I've been holding
> off on it until the transition is complete.
>
>
>> These all makes me wonder if we want to come up with other online events
>> meant to promote participation without waiting for the next conference. For
>> example, for DIG we started discussing having a Google Hangout based DIG
>> training session or even a DIG "open house". By open house I meant a time
>> to give a quick DIG intro presentation and have time for viewers to ask
>> questions about our process, etc.
>>
> I like the open house idea for DIG. I also was just thinking today that I
> would like to see a return to regular community meetings in the IRC
> channels. It gets more people from the community in IRC at a time where
> they don't feel like they are disturbing others and it also gives every a
> chance to come up to speed with the things the different community groups
> are doing. In the past, I know there have been reports from the developers,
> DIG, the web team, etc.
>
> However, I was thinking it might also be nice if there could be a standing
> agenda item where Evergreen sites might talk about Evergreen projects
> (development or otherwise) that they are currently planning/working on. It
> would be a good way for the community to hear what others are doing and
> maybe join together on projects of mutual interest.
>
> This might not be what you were looking for, Yamil, but I thought I would
> throw it out there as an idea since it was already on my mind.
>
> Kathy
>
>
>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yamil
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://evergreen-ils.org/**dokuwiki/doku.php?id=**
>> community:irc-quick-start&s[]=**irc&s[]=quick&s[]=start<http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=community:irc-quick-start&s[]=irc&s[]=quick&s[]=start>
>>
>> [2] http://evergreen-ils.org/irc.**php <http://evergreen-ils.org/irc.php>
>>
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