[General] [Proposal] Getting Involved / HelpUs

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Ted, What do you think about melding Get Involved and Community?

On Jul 6, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Ted Leung wrote:

> One of the things that we need to do around Preview is to make it  
> easier for people to figure out how they can get involved.  At the  
> moment, we have a Get Involved link on each of  
> chandler.osafoundation.org <http://chandler.osafoundation.org/ 
> getinvolved.php> and cosmo.osafoundation.org <http:// 
> cosmo.osafoundation.org/getinvolved.php>.   The Chandler page  
> points to a wiki HelpUs page <http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/ 
> HelpUs>, while the Cosmo page contains a link to a hopelessly out  
> of data Bugzilla query.
>
> I'd propose the following:
>
> * We use a link called "Getting Involved" as opposed to "For  
> Developers", since we want to people besides developers get involved
> * We  we try and unify as many of the items from the current Get  
> Involved pages into a single page that could be linked from the  
> main "Get Involved" link.
> * We have project specific sub sections or different pages, one for  
> the desktop and another for the server
> * In keeping with Katie's message <http://lists.osafoundation.org/ 
> pipermail/chandler-dev/2007-July/008507.html> about reducing the  
> usage wiki pages for projects, i propose that we convert all  
> projects currently listed on the HelpUs page to bugzilla bugs, with  
> a HelpUs keyword.    We can use the Bugzilla Query TWiki plugin to  
> get an in line display of the current project list.   This will  
> then be our sole method of managing projects that would be good  
> entry points for people new to one of the projects.
>
> If that proposal is acceptable, someone from each of the desktop  
> and server teams needs to look at the existing set of projects and  
> determine what is still valid, and add any other projects which are  
> not captured as bugs.    I will do this for the server team, but I  
> need some from the desktop team to look at the desktop side.
>
> Ted
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