[Blog Post] How to start a workgroup within the Julia community #2138
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| > A working group is a group of people that are interested in working on a common topic. Working groups are informal and have no official authority. All working groups have a public channel on the Julia Slack. | ||
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| Not only this but most working groups regularly hold meetings, everyone is free to attend these meetings and discuss about the topics which they want to. Most meeting schedules are posted on julia's community events calender but one can also find relevant links in the respective slack channels. |
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| Not only this but most working groups regularly hold meetings, everyone is free to attend these meetings and discuss about the topics which they want to. Most meeting schedules are posted on julia's community events calender but one can also find relevant links in the respective slack channels. | |
| Not only this but most working groups regularly hold meetings, everyone is free to attend these meetings and discuss about the topics which they want to. Most meeting schedules are posted on Julia's community events calendar but one can also find relevant links in the respective slack channels. |
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| Not only this but most working groups regularly hold meetings, everyone is free to attend these meetings and discuss about the topics which they want to. Most meeting schedules are posted on julia's community events calender but one can also find relevant links in the respective slack channels. | ||
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| Alright, now that we know what a working group is. |
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That appears odd phrasing to me. As if the sentence ends abruptly. "Now that we now X, ... we do Y" is a typical continuation, but sentences ending with "Now that we know X." are not common. I am not a native speaker.
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| Hey there, this post is dedicated to all those people who want to start a working group in julia. If you already have one, there might be some helpful tips for you too. | ||
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| #### What is a working group? |
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This header should be ### instead?
| #### Gaining Members | ||
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| > You created a working group now what? |
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So far there are no instructions on how to create such a group. Moreover, I would assume that creating the group and gaining at least its founding/starting members occur simultaneously. So I would recommend to have a section on "starting a group" that discusses also how to invite members.
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| Additionally, you can also have a document in which you write down short but relevant minutes of meetings so if someone wants to take a look to get a better context for the past events they can and possibly leave some useful comments if they want. | ||
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| ## General tips for being a workgroup leader |
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I believe using the word "coordinator" instead of "leader" gives a better impression, as leader imposes a strong hierarchy that I am not sure fits with the theme of the informal and rather casual meetings of a workgroup.
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I would love to help with this PR. How can I get started? |
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@TheCedarPrince Should we get this done? |
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I would quite like to @ViralBShah ! I just got blocked as I wanted to add @Hetarth02 here to the repo to help with this PR draft (he wrote the majority of this draft with me). However, I lacked the permissions around this and got stalled. |
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I have sent @Hetarth02 an invitation for commit access here. |
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Oh thanks so much @ViralBShah ! Out of curiosity, is there any way I could get elevated permissions so this sort of blocking doesn't happen in the future? I've been working to involve more volunteers around the website/community building pieces (e.g. GSoC project page maintenance, etc.) but don't have permissions to invite folks as committers or to create a limited team of volunteers. Obviously wouldn't be good to have folks all with merge rights but a team volunteer committers would be nice to have. What do you think? |
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Done. You already had maintain, but admin level will let you add others. |
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Thanks so much @ViralBShah ! I'll be following up on this over the next few weeks. 😄 |
After discussion with @Datseris at JuliaCon, I realized how much of a useful resource it would be to have a blog post talking about how to self-organize your own workgroup within the Julia community!
Thanks to discussion notes taken by George at JuliaCon during the discussion he and I had, @Hetarth02 created this awesome draft blog post for the website! I am going to do some more revisions before marking it ready for review and also want to ping some workgroup leaders across the Julia community for their thoughts.
Thanks all!
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Pinging @darsnack @gdalle @mortenpi @skygering @jpsamaroo -- if you could preview this blog post, that would be rad! Additionally, if there is any feedback you could give or quotes I could use, that would be amazing!