I actually think it’s important for a given project to have a fairly narrow focus in order to make progress, and I see Project Hufflepuff as related to outreach, but not directly about outreach. (I also don’t think proselytizing is the right word—we don’t have Good News to share—we have a bunch of ideas and models we’re in the process of figuring out.)
Right now, the community has something of a backlog of people who want to get more involved, but aren’t sure how, and people who are hanging out on the periphery and have value to contribute, but various things about the culture make them not want to. As well as people in the community who aren’t succeeding/thriving at the things they want to.
Project Hufflepuff is about making internal community infrastructure better. This will hopefully remove bottlenecks that make outreach harder, but isn’t the same thing.
I actually think it’s important for a given project to have a fairly narrow focus in order to make progress, and I see Project Hufflepuff as related to outreach, but not directly about outreach. (I also don’t think proselytizing is the right word—we don’t have Good News to share—we have a bunch of ideas and models we’re in the process of figuring out.)
Right now, the community has something of a backlog of people who want to get more involved, but aren’t sure how, and people who are hanging out on the periphery and have value to contribute, but various things about the culture make them not want to. As well as people in the community who aren’t succeeding/thriving at the things they want to.
Project Hufflepuff is about making internal community infrastructure better. This will hopefully remove bottlenecks that make outreach harder, but isn’t the same thing.