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

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>]

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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