[MAINTAINER SUMMIT] resources for promoting healthy communities

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

We talk a lot about community health and maintainer burn out but what
struck me watching Hans' talk about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Q8nIzEG6c

was that he relied on his employer to help him thorough his burnout
problems.  While this reflects very creditably on Red Hat it struck me
that quite a few of us probably have employers who would be less
sympathetic to the idea that issues caused by being an open source
maintainer should become their problem, especially if they were
spilling over into internal job functions.  So I went looking for
community resources that could be called on and found, rather
distressingly given the amount that people talk about this, that there
are none.  The best I can find was the session that happened in the
Kernel Summit track:

https://lpc.events/event/17/contributions/1574/

But that was a one-off rather than a resource that anyone can call on
at any time.  So the topic I'd like to raise is what should we as a
community actually be providing to help people through burn out and
other community health issues?  We could just continue on as we are now
which is pretty much nothing official but various community members
will be happy to help (although good luck finding them listed
anywhere).  We could make the self help support more official by
providing a mailing list and possibly a wiki of volunteers specifically
for the purpose.  Or, we could even decide that this is a serious
enough problem to ask the LF if it would be amenable to providing us
with some resources to help, thinks like organizing regular sessions
like the plumbers one above and perhaps offering 1:1 video counseling
and other resources.

Regards,

James