The Prairie Initiative is a family of projects that aim to make Drupal.org a more supportive environment for people who are new to the community and a more productive environment for our contributors.
27. so... this is Drupal right?
you’d better get used to it.
28.
29.
30. this is an (inadvertent)
statement of our values
31. we don’t value the
experience that new
contributors have
32. we don’t value the quality of
the products we produce
and/or the spaces we inhabit
33. could we make a crappier
‘onboarding’ experience
if we tried?
34. The term onboarding comes from the field of
human resources and the common practice of
new hire orientation. In that context, the steps
in the process are often referred to as
accommodate, assimilate, and accelerate—all of
which apply quite nicely to how new users ought
to be treated in order to bring them into the fold.
- Whitney Hess
http://uxmag.com/design/onboarding-designing-welcoming-first-experiences
43. as you are, so are your buildings;
and as your buildings are, so are you
Louis H Sullivan
‘father of skyscrapers’
Introducing the Prairie Initiative
Leisa Reichelt, Disambiguity.com
44. ‘The behavior you’re seeing is the
behavior you’ve designed for’
Joshua Porter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jesper
45. designing for behaviour as a first
class object... change the context and
you get different behaviour
- Clay Shirky
49. goals:
1. to improve the collaboration tools on Drupal.org
so that we can do more and better work together
and make Drupal better, faster.
2. to grow the pool of contributors by making
Drupal.org a better and easier place to become a
contributor - to make it less intimidating to people
who want to get started contributing
51. help us to be more effective
- allow us to make good decisions, quickly
- involve the right people at the right time
- encourage us to follow good processes for
designing and implementing solutions
52. we need to be more findable
and more joined up
- how do new people find the issue queue?
- you do you find issues you need/want to know about?
- why are there three different initiatives going on at
once to solve the same problem (this is ok, except that
they don’t know about each other)
53. we need to know about things
even if we can’t be on IRC or in the
issue queue for hours every day
- smart notifications!
- let me know when I should know something.
- don’t bug me all the time...
54. we need understand & support
modes of participation better
- 1:9:90
- easier to be a power user/leader
- easier to dip in and add value
55. we need a better way to plan
initiatives together
- planning something big is different to getting
work on a project done
- a place to plan complex, multi-stage projects
- a place to plan projects that don’t involve code
56. we need to be more inclusive
- a welcoming environment for noobs
- a way to efficiently provide friendly support
- an environment that supports all disciplines.
57. be considerate
be respectful
be collaborative
when we disagree, we consult others
when we are unsure, we ask for help
step down considerately
http://drupal.org/dcoc
58. we should behave online like we do in
the hallways at conferences & camps
- an environment that encourages friendliness,
politeness, constructiveness, proactivity.
- a way to channel passion positively
- ‘the shadow of the future’?
59. We don’t have a choice about whether we have
a reputation system or not.
We need to choose if/how we write it down .
- what’s measured matters
- a way to show influence
whilst remaining egalitarian
- a way to show expertise without being
a show off