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Help Recruit more Developers to LFN Projects! 2020-06-22

Help Recruit more Developers to LFN Projects! 2020-06-22

Sept 24, 2020

Date

Attendees

Topic Leaders: Jason Hunt 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 Jason Hunt
    • LF Training using a badging program exist that can be leveraged
    • Kenny Paul (Deactivated) working with the LF Training organization to understand capabilities

Action items

  • Jason Hunt to work with TAC to setup a working group to determine recommendations for developer recruitment and plan for implementation