Future Dolores messages

[melodykramer]

Please post them here.

[nikzei]

At the end of onboarding (or maybe after the two-week mark), a checklist message of all the things the onboarder should have accomplished (all 18f classes offered, Concur, Tock, GitHub, Code of Conduct, benefits, equipment, etc. etc.) with particular emphasis on admin tasks that need to be completed by then (I write this bc I just onboarded and am worried that there are things I've overlooked taking care of!).

[toolness]

One of the things I find really cool about our Slack is the existence of public channels (these seem to all end with -public in their name). In particular, I really like #opensource-public--IRC/real-time chat in general is a big part of open-source culture and this channel seems to be the closest thing we have to it.

However, I don't believe any of my onboarding materials ever mentioned the existence of any of these public channels. It would be great if Dolores Landingham mentioned them at some point!

[toolness]

Aidan just told me about https://fugacious.18f.gov/, which is useful for securely sending things that only need to be viewed once or twice, like passwords. I'm not sure if a guide would be appropriate for it, so it might be useful as a dolores message? Also not sure how useful the service is to non-engineers.

[jessieay]

@toolness good idea! cc @nicoleslaw

[nicoleslaw]

cc @jeremiak who is the onboarding lead now. We talk about this here: https://handbook.18f.gov/slack/

[jessieay]

hey @nicoleslaw what does

We talk about this

mean?

Want to make sure I am not missing something :)

[nicoleslaw]

Whoops, sorry, I meant to share the text about Fugacious for @toolness's request:

Do not post anything that would make our systems vulnerable if it fell into the wrong hands. If you need to share sensitive data (environmental variables, passwords, and so forth), please use Fugacious to create a short message that is auto-deleted. If the information you need to share is very complex, please share it using a GSA Google Drive folder, and then promptly delete it once you’re done sharing.