From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 651AC844 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 19:19:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com (bedivere.hansenpartnership.com [66.63.167.143]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1647143 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 19:19:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bedivere.hansenpartnership.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3739B8EE0D5 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 12:19:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bedivere.hansenpartnership.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Xlk6WmLxJHce for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 12:19:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [153.66.254.242] (unknown [184.11.141.41]) by bedivere.hansenpartnership.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E06CC8EE08E for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 12:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1438629566.2173.58.camel@HansenPartnership.com> From: James Bottomley To: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:19:26 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment; Outreach Programmes List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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) 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