[kde-community] Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is.....

[Peter Grasch]

Hello everyone,

some of us who missed the day trip today in Brno were discussing ways
to get new or less proactive people involved with KDE. Right now, we
are a community of very proactive, inner-directed people. We find
something to do, or make up something to do that makes us happy. It
would be great to have people who are not of this personality or those
who have no idea where to start, to get a nice choice of what we know
we need.

The vague idea is to offer people descriptions of "missions" that they
can take up, to lower the barrier of entry. What we have come up with
is a proposal to reuse part of Brainstorm, and extend that in a new
direction. We envision a unified place where developers aggregate
"missions" of different size and scope. This place is meant to be the
go-to place for people who want to get involved with KDE, accessible
through a prominent "get involved" link on kde.org.

The kind of "missions" we envision are:

* Junior Jobs
* GSoC, SoK, GCi
* new team members wanted
* specific areas needing attention
* applications and libraries needing maintainers

Brainstorm is a place for users to dream about cool stuff, and even
vote up the ideas. What has been missing is developer buy-in, as we
understand it. Right now there is a section in Brainstorm called In
Development. What we are proposing is to launch Mission on the Forum
as well. Project managers could close threads and link to the new
Mission.

This could also be a place to integrate idea generation for GSoC
projects, Summer of KDE , even GCi tasks, possibly allowing users to
rate them in importance. If we can get in the habit of doing this all
year round, getting ready for GSoC, SoK, and GCi will be easier.

We have our first mission, once this is created on the Forum:
https://blogs.kde.org/2014/08/16/konqueror-looking-maintainer

Valorie Zimmerman
Michael Bohlender
Heinz Wiesinger
David Faure
Peter Grasch