Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment; Outreach Programmes

[Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>]

On Mon Aug 03 15, 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)
>     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
>

It's not an outreach program, but has anyone looked into whether
people that have gone through the Eudyptula challenge have moved on to
contribute to the kernel? I believe as of June, 88 people had
completed the challenge.

Jerry