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Kat: Difficulties in onboarding volunteers 530PM, room A
roles of teams
experiences in other organizations
- employee onboarding experiences... interns. where to start.
We're bad at it... how do we improve? designate someone from each team for month at a time.
- potentially abusive, not just benefit TPO, but the volunteer: anonbib,
irc, mailing lists, absorb. then decide. you're not getting paid.
- volunteering on www: invited only days, and public acts. Oct 3 meeting
public on volunteering. scaling problem with mentoring volunteers. status of each project
- documentation writer=> determining what they should learn.
- voluteering experience. list of what ppl can contribute. too general?
not feeling welcomed in tech, mentoring/reaching out. ambassadors by team.
- individual engagement works, but not scalable. matter most/open source
slack
- method not a static list, knowing the avail resources
yes, method, but www site is main entryway. wayfinding.
- old www, new one soon with community portal. using the tools we have
now. redo volunteer page, not exploiting volunteers. SP, br, volunteer work with credit
- advisor role in ind studies with credit
allocating the actual work for an ind study
- if CS studies know it's possible... ppl would appreciate
- SP, br as pilot program
- bug list, 'word of the day'... 'task of the day'
requires coordinator with volunteers
- dedicated hire to coordinate... we have a volunteer.
- are bugs categorized.
- authoritarian to be telling volunteers
guidance
- mailing list? here are some tasks to do...
requires someone from each team to contribute
- as an engineer "how can i help" via various channels. list of topics,
widely varied. coordinating party to fixing a bug. on the www to list.
- workflow: ask for a task from teams once a month for volunteers. as
with deb, which packages need help.
email contact, or trac tag
- diff paths dev v local meetups. each team should consider and determine
updating the current www page. context of the teams, requesting, dump on the wiki pls
- bar of entry.. process by team
- volunteer page redirect to the wiki?
brief overview of teams and link to how to contribute
- relay ops? phoul... Core TPO at academic conferences, arma 'mobbed' at
mcgill. taping CS departments. volunteering to coordinate.
- academic focus, pressure to publish without social change. crypto
contributions v academics. publishing about anonymity systems.
- academia. research, relays by students, etc.
- non-tech relays and contributing to TPO on campus
- determining the audience on campus, speakers 'transforming' students
discussing first steps listed...
- update volunteer page
@www ppl
- ask teams to contribute tasks to do
@vegas
- summarize teams and categories
(email draft to internal@ about contributing)
losing volunteers by not having a next step
- academia and industry unique connection via Tor
- PETs as a venue for that. When speaking at campuses... mention PETs
- money for stipends to get more ppl to PETs, sources for funding and
criteria for stipends
- Goog Summer of Code. TPO not approved. Summer of Privacy as alternate.