Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-couchdb-marketing-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-marketing-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C525171F9 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2014 09:57:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 64149 invoked by uid 500); 4 Oct 2014 09:57:57 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-marketing-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 64105 invoked by uid 500); 4 Oct 2014 09:57:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact marketing-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: marketing@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list marketing@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 64094 invoked by uid 99); 4 Oct 2014 09:57:57 -0000 Received: from minotaur.apache.org (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 09:57:57 +0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mail-ig0-f174.google.com) (127.0.0.1) (smtp-auth username nslater, mechanism plain) by minotaur.apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 09:57:56 +0000 Received: by mail-ig0-f174.google.com with SMTP id l13so482549iga.13 for ; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 02:57:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlN7emiDTA1Y3/icaSNiHyOA6B5xHYrxrbDYJfj8f0DoP5IozfN5AJlnUzthOXDACvmx18g MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.72.3 with SMTP id z3mr5084302igu.36.1412416675192; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 02:57:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.107.37.204 with HTTP; Sat, 4 Oct 2014 02:57:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [83.170.117.176] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 11:57:55 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Recruitment tweets From: Noah Slater To: "marketing@couchdb.apache.org" , Javier Candeira Cc: "andywenk@apache.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cool, thanks Javier! On 4 October 2014 02:17, Javier Candeira wrote: > Thanks Noah and Andy. > > I am subscribed to marketing, dev, user and erlang. I'm also both on > #couchdb and #couchdb-dev. > > Now looking at tickets sorted by skill level. Will comment on IRC. > > Cheers, > > Javier > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Andy Wenk wrote: >> Hi Javier, >> >> welcome :). As I understood, you want to start working on some topics. A >> good entry point is to scan >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20COUCHDB%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC >> >> You will find a bunch of unresolved issues. They should be labelled with a >> difficulty indicator but as I just had a quick look it seems that not all >> have been labelled. You could pick some of the UI tickets and start working >> on it. >> >> Please make sure that you have subscribed to the dev@couchdb.apache.org >> mailinglist (http://couchdb.apache.org/#mailing-lists) and you should also >> jump into irc.freenode.net#couchdb-dev >> >> For the UI topics you can get in touch with robertkowalski and garren on >> IRC. >> >> Happy hacking :) >> >> Cheers >> >> Andy >> >> >> On 29 September 2014 22:04, Noah Slater wrote: >> >>> Javier, >>> >>> Could you clarify your request. Not sure I understood. Also, hi! :) >>> >>> On 29 September 2014 16:11, Javier Candeira wrote: >>> > Hi Noah, >>> > >>> > I'm here, if you can help me triage a couple of easy bugs for a >>> > beginner to sink his teeth on. >>> > >>> > Javier >>> > >>> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Noah Slater >>> wrote: >>> >> One of the problems with marketing activities is that quantitative >>> >> data is quite hard to come by. >>> >> >>> >> A lot of marketing works by raising awareness of a particular thing, >>> >> be that a brand, a product, event, or opportunity. More often than >>> >> not, a person takes action on that awareness many hours, days, or >>> >> weeks after learning about it. Making the connection between what you >>> >> did in your marketing efforts, and conversions that you make (in this >>> >> case, recruiting contributors), can be tricky (but not impossible). >>> >> >>> >> How about we take a two-pronged approach: >>> >> >>> >> - Regular, but generic, recruitment tweets, cycling between the >>> >> different areas we want to attract contributions to >>> >> - Specific, and sporadic, recruitment tweets for specific JIRA >>> >> tickets, as and when we need it >>> >> >>> >> I can handle the first one with very little input. But how would we do >>> >> the second one? Is there something we could in JIRA that would >>> >> indicate that a ticket ought to be promoted from a recruitment >>> >> perspective? >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On 29 September 2014 15:38, Alexander Shorin wrote: >>> >>> Is there any metric to ensure that they'll work? >>> >>> How about to send more concrete recruitment tweet against specific >>> >>> issue? Like "CSS hero scrollbars hater wanted for COUCHDB-2305, many >>> >>> kudos for help!" or something. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ,,,^..^,,, >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Noah Slater >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi folks, >>> >>>> >>> >>>> I've set up a regular reminder to send out recruitment tweets. >>> >>>> >>> >>>> Here are two examples: >>> >>>> >>> >>>> https://twitter.com/CouchDB/status/516580274990514179 >>> >>>> >>> >>>> (Sent just now. RTs appreciated!) >>> >>>> >>> >>>> And here's an earlier one: >>> >>>> >>> >>>> https://twitter.com/CouchDB/status/471358568546193412 >>> >>>> >>> >>>> What do we think of these? Do you have any ideas about how often I >>> >>>> should do this, or what sort of stuff I should highlight? >>> >>>> >>> >>>> Thanks, >>> >>>> >>> >>>> -- >>> >>>> Noah Slater >>> >>>> https://twitter.com/nslater >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Noah Slater >>> >> https://twitter.com/nslater >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Noah Slater >>> https://twitter.com/nslater >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Andy Wenk >> Hamburg - Germany >> RockIt! >> >> GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 >> >> https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater