Bug 380

Summary:	First round of recruitment attempts on university and technical mailing lists
Product:	Libre-SOC Organisation	Reporter:	Cole Poirier <colepoirier>
Component:	Planning	Assignee:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	libre-soc-org, lkcl
Priority:	---
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Cole Poirier 2020-06-12 18:05:51 BST

Migrated from bug #379 under toplevel "Libre-SOC's first SOC -> Create wiki page for recruitment letter to Universities (& etc.) to point to"

https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379#c0:
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Cole Poirier:
> > Will also work on a blurb for soliciting new members, and research some
> > possible methods of publicising our search for memebers.

lkcl:
> my partner marie has a contact at HK University, please do point her at it
> when you have it written. (a short wiki page is great).

Will do, thanks this is a great place to start. Also will be contacting U of T, my sister is a 3rd year ECE student there. Planning on contacting as many CS and ECE listservs as I can find. Is this permitted? Are there any procedures, regulations, or recommendations when it comes to cold contacting mailing list registrars with a request to share our letter informing students (and faculty?) of the opportunity to "work on complex and interesting libre hardware/software and receive tax deductible charitable donations for their contributions?"

After university engineering and computer science mailing lists, maybe I should try tech and hardware forums? Perhaps both the professional and enthusiast tech forums, because people like Jacob and I watch things like Gamer's Nexus on youtube, so there may be others that we can find there?

> we have something on the front page already however it is embedded *in* the
> front page and so is not really clear.

I agree. I'll write something up and post it on the wiki, will post the link here when its up.

> we also cannot call it "jobs" because sigh that implies salaries, per-hour
> payments, employment, that we will cover their insurance costs, holidays
> and so on.  wark-wark.
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Comment 1 Cole Poirier 2020-06-12 18:09:19 BST

*** Bug 379 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Cole Poirier 2020-06-12 18:29:11 BST

In order to fulfill my obligation to be fully transparent working on the project, how should I be sending these emails such that they are publicly available? Or does the transparency only apply to the discussions of the design of the SOC and not to every individual back-and-forth between myself and community administrators? I feel like since I am communicating on behalf of Libre-SOC that these emails should be transparent... however I'm not sure. Please provide guidance on this.

Comment 3 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 2020-06-13 16:41:26 BST

(In reply to Cole Poirier from comment #2)
> In order to fulfill my obligation to be fully transparent working on the
> project, how should I be sending these emails such that they are publicly
> available?

the bugtracker itself, and this:
http://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-org/2020-June/000007.html

oh you mean private conversations with people whom you are considering
approaching?  hm, that's a tough one as without them agreeing to the same
transparency requirements, we cannot "force" them to do that.

however if they decide to commit to helping out, that will involve them
going through the onboarding process, which involves making it clear that
the transparency requirement exists.

this can be scary for them, so takes a bit of care and encouragement. it
was definitely intimidating for me, back in 1995, to first be talking on
the samba mailing lists.  i got over it.