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

[Valorie Zimmerman]

This thread seems to have stopped, so I'm starting it up again.

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Peter Grasch <peter at grasch.net> wrote:
> On Saturday, September 13, 2014 01:03:12 PM Claus Christensen wrote:
>> This is a great idea. I wouldn't mind putting in some work to make something
>> like this get off the ground.
> Awesome, a volunteer!
>
> You wouldn't happen to have any experience in web development or desire to
> learn about it, would you? :)
>
> Best regards,
> Peter

Are people excited about advertising for new people, and new
sub-projects within their software projects? If so, shall we ask the
Forum admins to create a Mission area?

Or do we need more discussion about how exactly this should be put
together, who will use it, etc.?

Partial quote from Peter's original proposal:

"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 "

The sooner we get this up and running, the sooner we can draw new
contributors into our community.

Valorie
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