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[INTRODUCTIONS] New Non Coding Contributor
Hi Everyone
My name is Sharan Foga and I am new to the Apache Cassandra community.
I would like to contribute to the project but am not a developer so am
looking for ways to contribute that are not coding related (e.g helping
out with things like community building, documentation, events, meetups,
etc). As a start I will take a look through the project website, wiki
space and the existing documentation and see if I can find something to
work on :-)
Please feel free to reach out to me if there is anything specific that
need doing as I am happy to help. Really looking forward to being part
of the community!
Thanks
Sharan
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Re: [INTRODUCTIONS] New Non Coding Contributor
Posted by sharanf <sh...@apache.org>.
Hi Mick
Long time no see! And great to re-connect with you here on list.
I'm here with my contributor hat on so it's really nice to actually
start getting involved with a project again.
Thanks very much the update and also including all the details around
the website. (BTW the website is looking really cool!) I will run
though it and see how it goes. I've joined the #cassandra-website and
#cassandra-events slack channels so will follow those too.
On the non coding committers topic - I do have some experience around it
and would be happy to share what I know.
Thanks
Sharan
On 2021-11-23 12:23, Mick Semb Wever wrote:
>>> My name is Sharan Foga and I am new to the Apache Cassandra community.
>>>
>>> I would like to contribute to the project but am not a developer so am
>>> looking for ways to contribute that are not coding related (e.g helping
>>> out with things like community building, documentation, events, meetups,
>>> etc). As a start I will take a look through the project website, wiki
>>> space and the existing documentation and see if I can find something to
>>> work on :-)
>
>
> Hi Sharan! Thanks for connecting. We are honoured to have an ASF Board
> Director reach out!
>
> The project is ramping up on a number of non-coding fronts: website,
> documentation, social media, events, and project governance (from CEPs to
> voting to methods for contributor recognition…)
>
> Repeating Benjamin, with 4.0 we landed a new website and documentation. An
> immense amount of work has gone into this, but it is still very new and
> needs many small fixes and eyeballs. All, and any, help we can get there is
> most welcome. It should be a super easy place for a non coder contributor
> to get started, and it is definitely intended to be that very soon, but for
> the moment we are blocked and still working on merging CASSANDRA-16763.
>
> To build the website, you need docker, and to run the following steps:
> ```
> git clone https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website.git
> cd cassandra-website
> ./run.sh website-ui bundle
> ./run.sh website build -i -b cassandra:trunk,cassandra-3.11 -u
> cassandra:https://github.com/polandll/cassandra.git -z
> ./site-ui/build/ui-bundle.zip
>
> # preview in your browser
> open site-content/build/html/_/index.html
> ```
> (Note the second run.sh step will switch to use the official repo fork and
> branches once 16763 is merged.)
>
> There's a number of tickets that have been created that relate to the new
> website and docs, under CASSANDRA-16761.
>
> Otherwise, the docs are asciidoc that are easy enough to directly edit and
> open a PR against; so just reach out on #cassandra-website slack and the
> folk there will be very happy to help out in any way they can. There, and
> also on #cassandra-events, is where the activity around events and social
> media is happening too. There's been some interesting discussions there the
> past month around our twitter account, hashtags, and having a content
> pipeline in place.
>
> Beyond such hands-on non-coding type of contributions, we are also looking
> for inspiration on how better to recognise non-coding contributors, and
> even if the idea of non-coding committers has a place in the project. Ideas
> and examples on how other projects have done this would be a real
> contribution.
>
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Re: [INTRODUCTIONS] New Non Coding Contributor
Posted by Mick Semb Wever <mc...@apache.org>.
> > My name is Sharan Foga and I am new to the Apache Cassandra community.
> >
> > I would like to contribute to the project but am not a developer so am
> > looking for ways to contribute that are not coding related (e.g helping
> > out with things like community building, documentation, events, meetups,
> > etc). As a start I will take a look through the project website, wiki
> > space and the existing documentation and see if I can find something to
> > work on :-)
Hi Sharan! Thanks for connecting. We are honoured to have an ASF Board
Director reach out!
The project is ramping up on a number of non-coding fronts: website,
documentation, social media, events, and project governance (from CEPs to
voting to methods for contributor recognition…)
Repeating Benjamin, with 4.0 we landed a new website and documentation. An
immense amount of work has gone into this, but it is still very new and
needs many small fixes and eyeballs. All, and any, help we can get there is
most welcome. It should be a super easy place for a non coder contributor
to get started, and it is definitely intended to be that very soon, but for
the moment we are blocked and still working on merging CASSANDRA-16763.
To build the website, you need docker, and to run the following steps:
```
git clone https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website.git
cd cassandra-website
./run.sh website-ui bundle
./run.sh website build -i -b cassandra:trunk,cassandra-3.11 -u
cassandra:https://github.com/polandll/cassandra.git -z
./site-ui/build/ui-bundle.zip
# preview in your browser
open site-content/build/html/_/index.html
```
(Note the second run.sh step will switch to use the official repo fork and
branches once 16763 is merged.)
There's a number of tickets that have been created that relate to the new
website and docs, under CASSANDRA-16761.
Otherwise, the docs are asciidoc that are easy enough to directly edit and
open a PR against; so just reach out on #cassandra-website slack and the
folk there will be very happy to help out in any way they can. There, and
also on #cassandra-events, is where the activity around events and social
media is happening too. There's been some interesting discussions there the
past month around our twitter account, hashtags, and having a content
pipeline in place.
Beyond such hands-on non-coding type of contributions, we are also looking
for inspiration on how better to recognise non-coding contributors, and
even if the idea of non-coding committers has a place in the project. Ideas
and examples on how other projects have done this would be a real
contribution.
Re: [INTRODUCTIONS] New Non Coding Contributor
Posted by sharanf <sh...@apache.org>.
Hi Benjamin
Thanks very much for the warm welcome and also the suggestion. I will
take a look!
Thanks
Sharan
On 2021-11-23 10:46, Benjamin Lerer wrote:
> Hi Sharan,
>
> Welcome to our community!
>
> We have a cassandra-website slack channel dedicated to the website and the
> documentation. It is probably the best place to ask website and
> documentation questions.
>
> Happy to have you with us 😀
>
> Le mar. 23 nov. 2021 à 10:29, sharanf <sh...@apache.org> a écrit :
>
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> My name is Sharan Foga and I am new to the Apache Cassandra community.
>>
>> I would like to contribute to the project but am not a developer so am
>> looking for ways to contribute that are not coding related (e.g helping
>> out with things like community building, documentation, events, meetups,
>> etc). As a start I will take a look through the project website, wiki
>> space and the existing documentation and see if I can find something to
>> work on :-)
>>
>> Please feel free to reach out to me if there is anything specific that
>> need doing as I am happy to help. Really looking forward to being part
>> of the community!
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sharan
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [INTRODUCTIONS] New Non Coding Contributor
Posted by Benjamin Lerer <bl...@apache.org>.
Hi Sharan,
Welcome to our community!
We have a cassandra-website slack channel dedicated to the website and the
documentation. It is probably the best place to ask website and
documentation questions.
Happy to have you with us 😀
Le mar. 23 nov. 2021 à 10:29, sharanf <sh...@apache.org> a écrit :
> Hi Everyone
>
> My name is Sharan Foga and I am new to the Apache Cassandra community.
>
> I would like to contribute to the project but am not a developer so am
> looking for ways to contribute that are not coding related (e.g helping
> out with things like community building, documentation, events, meetups,
> etc). As a start I will take a look through the project website, wiki
> space and the existing documentation and see if I can find something to
> work on :-)
>
> Please feel free to reach out to me if there is anything specific that
> need doing as I am happy to help. Really looking forward to being part
> of the community!
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
>
>
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