Open Stack

On 07/29/2015 01:29 PM, Tim Freund wrote:
> I started a Google form to collect information.  What am I missing and
> what should I change?
> 
> http://goo.gl/forms/qAr3N8rdYs

I would add business title below organization, so we know if we're
dealing with developer, operator, product/project manager, etc.

I also collected the salutation (and gender), so we can address the
person in their favorite pronoun.

I like the 'area of interest', which is more precise than what I used to
collect.

We also asked in the past (but I wonder if we really need them):

 - What is your level of proficiency with Free Software in general and
its development processes?
 - Have you ever attempted submitting patches to a Free Software
project? If so, please describe how it went:
 - Please summarize your professional experience, as a developer or
otherwise:

and to set the expectations:

 - What would you like to learn from this training program?

> One thought when we open registration:  we can change the text of that
> form to warn students that we are putting them on a waiting list once we
> have exhausted all of our open positions.

Makes sense, we can keep a counter on Trello

> I'll get something started that will let us sync the form results to
> trello for progress tracking.

let me know if you need anything. Zapier was a pretty neat tool,
although it may require a professional account (we can ask the
foundation to pay for it, it's not that expensive).

> Concerning mentors:  should the automation automatically assign a mentor
> based on student interest area and mentor load?  (Perhaps allow mentors
> to say how many students they are comfortable working with, and
> auto-assign up to that number.)

That's the biggest area of concern: we don't have a culture of mentors
already established so for all the people who expressed interest in
helping, they need to be trained to read this mailing list, be on IRC
(which channel?) and follow the trello board and more.

I'm not sure how to best manage the volunteers who have expressed the
intention to help.

/stef