Help Recruit more Developers to LFN Projects! 2020-06-22
- Casey Cain
- djhunt
- Kenny Paul
Date
Jun 22, 2020
Attendees
Topic Leaders: @djhunt @Abhijit K @Al Morton @cl664y@att.com @Morgan Richomme @Ranny Haiby
Overview
Our LFN Projects are always in need of more developers. This session will explore ways to recruit more developers into LFN. We'll begin with a review of the approaches that current LFN projects use today (mentoring, interns, "taxing", and student volunteers). We'll then brainstorm ways to 1) promote the development needs of projects, 2) reward/acknowledge contributors (badging, reference letters, etc.), and 3) provide tooling that is easy for new developers to adopt. Please attend with your ideas!
Presentation:
Recording
Minutes
Hacktoberfest - @Morgan Richomme
Awareness: Uses GitHub/GitLab with tags to identify "easy" tasks
Reward: T-shirt for 4 pull requests
challenge: CLA or other legal items may impact ease of implementation in LFN projects
many projects can participate, or LFN could do their own
General challenge for corporate developers - gaining corporate support for the developers to work on projects
Other challenge (particularly for students) - ease of tooling and size of project
ROS - @Ranny Haiby
Began with a project Maintainer doing outreach
Uses mentors to onboard new developers
Awareness: promoted via LinkedIn post
ODL Lessons @Abhijit K
Most contributions come from corporate developers, so need to continue to encourage them to dedicated developers
OPNFV @Al Morton
Have seen success in a student volunteer program (separate from internship program) that results in a certificate of completion.
Does require mentorship from project team(s)
Awareness: done via informal promotion in academic circles; topics should have some academic interest
quality doesn't suffer with modular work, but may take a bit longer.
no explicit criteria for letter - up to TSC and VSPERF team discretion
ONAP @cl664y@att.com
Some company led internship programs have assigned their interns to ONAP. This is in addition to the LFN mentorship program
Attempting a "tax" for Guilin release - companies that want to add a new use case must commit developers to some of the backlog for non-functional requirements
Demo contest and community awards
Overall 3 topics:
Recruiting "casual developer"
Building pipeline via academics, students, interns
Encouraging more corporate contributions
Badging @djhunt
LF Training using a badging program exist that can be leveraged
@Kenny Paul working with the LF Training organization to understand capabilities