[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment; Outreach Programmes
Julia Lawall
julia.lawall at lip6.fr
Mon Aug 3 19:23:41 UTC 2015
On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, James Bottomley wrote:
> I think this is part of the broad recruitment topic, but it's worth
> considering in its own right. We should probably begin by reviewing the
> current outreach programmes and whether they're effective. The
> currently running one is the Outreach Programme for Women:
>
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2013/04/announcing-outreach-program-women-internships-linux-kernel-please
>
> Which has been running successfully for a while. The questions for us
> are
>
> 1. Should the programme be broadened (the current OPW one only
> reaches women, not everyone who might need outreach)
There are plans to broaden it somewhat, but I don't know the details.
julia
> 2. Assuming we do decide broader is better, what's the next group
> to reach out to?
> 3. Is this type of outreach better than non group specific
> outreach? One can argue the kernel mentors list was non group
> specific and it didn't seem to get much uptake, so perhaps group
> specific is better? Essentially is it better for us to invest
> our efforts in specific segments rather than generally?
>
> Just on the premise of 3 we can still improve our overall acceptance
> processes, as we have been discussing, in a general way because outreach
> is what you do to pull people in, not what processes you have in place
> to help them once they are pulled in.
>
> James
>
>
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