First Contact SIG

First Contact SIG
Our Mission

To provide a place for new contributors to come for information and advice. This group will also analyze and document successful contribution models while seeking out and providing information to new members of the community.

Chairs
 * Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo) UTC -8
 * Matt Oliver (mattoliverau) UTC+10 (UTC+11 with daylight saving)

Members
 * Zhipeng Huang (zhipeng) UTC+8
 * Amy Marrich (spotz) UTC-6
 * Ildikó Váncsa (ildikov) UTC+1 (UTC+2 with daylight saving)
 * Jay Bryant (jungleboyj) UTC-6
 * Ghanshyam Mann (gmann) UTC-6
 * Gergely Csatari (csatari) UTC+1 (UTC+2 with daylight saving)
 * Surya Prakash Singh (spsurya) UTC+9

Helpful Resources

 * Contributor Portal
 * Mentoring
 * Outreachy

Project Liaisons
The list of project liaisons can be found in the Cross Project Liaisons Wiki Here.

Biweekly Homework

 * New Contributor Patches
 * Unmerged Patches Not in the sandbox or ci-sandbox
 * All Changes
 * https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/FC_SIG_patch_checkup
 * New Contributor the Month
 * (Read only now) Ask.openstack.org Contribution Questions

Meeting Agenda
The First Contact SIG team holds public weekly meeting:


 * Channel:
 * Time: first Wednesday of the month at 00:00 UTC
 * For Chair person: Start this meeting using: #startmeeting fc_sig
 * The meeting minutes of previous meetings can be found here: meeting minutes on eavesdrop

Ping list: gmann, mattoliverau, spotz

Standing Items:
 * Announcements
 * Homework check-in
 * New Contrib Patches
 * Is there anything else we should be doing?

Other Items:
 * ML Response Statistics Gathering (jimmymcarthur)
 * Virtual OUI
 * k8s is recording their sessions
 * We started a list of little videos at the PTG during our time; no updates yet
 * https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/OUI-videos
 * Sandbox Bot (mattoliverau & tonyb)
 * Where should the code live?
 * Where should it run?
 * http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-February/002291.html
 * https://review.openstack.org/#/c/636466/
 * https://review.opendev.org/c/opendev/sandbox/+/636279
 * https://review.opendev.org/c/opendev/sandbox/+/636810
 * Other Initiatives this year?

On Hold:
 * People to Reach Out To
 * Pretty Ethercalc