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

[David Wright]

Hi Peter,

I did have the idea that I mentioned on here a while back of possibly
setting up a job board, so people can apply for jobs, or submit their
details (current occupation and experience etc.) if they're not sure where
they would be useful, so they can be guided into certain areas. It would
make promotion easier as well as you can just promote the one job, and one
link. I think a more anonymous, and formal process might be better for some
people, especially those with less confidence.

There are software packages that can handle this kind of thing already;
however it would be better if it were properly integrated into the kde.org
website rather than another bolt on. I am currently trying to come up with
a plan for consolidation the would take this sort of thing into
consideration. There is also the problem that some of these things are more
events than jobs, so again this is something that needs thinking about.

Kind regards,

David.


On 11 Sep 2014 10:45, "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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