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

[Arjun Ak]

How about having something similar to the eudyptula challenge
(http://eudyptula-challenge.org/) ?

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Peter Grasch <peter at grasch.net> wrote:
> 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
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