Potential Questions For Maintainer Form

[tkshill]

Virtual Coffee Open Source Maintainer Form

Are you an Open Source maintainer who is interested in participating in Hacktoberfest? We're looking for some OSS maintainers to partner with in order to provide a welcoming environment to our Contributors as they start their open source journey.

"*" fields are mandatory

1. Name:* _____________________

2. Email Address:* _____________________

3. Repository Link (if available): _____________________

4. Project Tech Stack/Interests:* (Check all that apply)

   • [ ] Javascript - React
   • [ ] Javascript - Other
   • [ ] HTML/CSS
   • [ ] Python
   • [ ] Swift
   • [ ] Functional Programming (Haskell, Elm, Scala, Closure)
   • [ ] Java/Kotlin
   • [ ] .Net (C#, F#, VB.Net)
   • [ ] PHP
   • [ ] Ruby
   • [ ] Other (With accompanying text field)

5. Short Project Description:*

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6. How many hours do you think you can dedicate to reviewing PRs contributed by open source contributors?

   • [ ] 1 - 3
   • [ ] 4 - 10
   • [ ] 10 +

7. What is your preferred method(s) of communication for collaboration?

   • [ ] Directly through Github issues
   • [ ] Direct messaging (Async) e.g. Slack, WhatsApp
   • [ ] Email
   • [ ] Voice/Video chat via Zoom/Discord/Skype/WhatsApp/Hangouts (you get it)

8. What areas do you feel like you need/want help on the most? (Check all that apply)

   • [ ] User Testing
   • [ ] Documentation
   • [ ] Front End Development
   • [ ] Back End Development
   • [ ] Project Management/Planning
   • [ ] Unit Testing
   • [ ] Git flow and automation

9. Would you be willing to attend a zoom seminar for sharing maintainer best practices?

   • [ ] Yes
   • [ ] No

10. What are your goals with this project?

    • [ ] Chance to learn and develop new skills
    • [ ] Portfolio piece to land a tech job
    • [ ] Social/benefit the community
    • [ ] Proof of concept for current/future business
    • [ ] Just having fun

11. How much do you want to prioritise your efforts as a project maintainer?

    • [ ] High priority (heavily invested in project completion/maturation)
    • [ ] Medium priority (would like to finish project, but it's not critical)
    • [ ] Low priority (very casual endeavour, no explicit goals/timelines)

12. Are you comfortable working hands-on with your contributors (pair programming sessions, code review sessions, etc.?)

    • [ ] Yes
    • [ ] No

13. Have you attended a Virtual Coffee Meetup, and are you already a part of the Virtual Coffee Slack Group?

    • [ ] Never attended the Meetup
    • [ ] Attended meet-up, not part of the Slack group
    • [ ] Virtual Coffee Slack Member

14. Are you comfortable with Virtual Coffee highlighting (with consent) your project/contributions on Social Media? (Twitter, Instagram)

    • [ ] Yes
    • [ ] No

Thank you for showing interest in the Virtual Coffee Hacktober Initiative!

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[danieltott]

@tkshill would getting specific tech they use be useful? JavaScript/ react /python etc?

[danieltott]

Also I don’t immediately understand the use of the “field” field - don’t need to, but wouldn’t mind hearing your thinking

[tkshill]

Oooh, getting tech seems good!

Honestly, the "field" field is the field I'm iffiest about. I just thought that some people might want to focus on projects in a particular area, but project description can take care of that.

I could easily see a version where we replace the field field with the tech field. I'll change it now.

[danieltott]

We might be able to skip the tech question and just answer it ourselves when we process the response and put it into our spreadsheet by checking out the repo?