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[DISCUSS] HELP WANTED: Putting Help Wanted on OpenOffice.org
<https://helpwanted.apache.org/wtest.html>
There is a blossoming Help Wanted arrangement that would be very useful for us.
I propose that we set this up. Also, there are places on Wikis and other places where Help Wanted for the project using specific tags could be provided.
See some of the tags that are already used and are categorized on the main Help Wanted page:
<https://helpwanted.apache.org/>.
The place to start might be with addition of the widget for project="openoffice" on
<http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html> if not [also] on the home page.
The Help Wanted system is a work in progress. But it is stable enough to start capturing requests.
It may be a simpler way to obtain community support and further support in non-developer areas.
There are the following types of tasks built-in so far:
Programming and Development
Web Design
Documentation and Guides
Marketing and Publicity
Community Outreach
Translation
There are already the following skill requirements/difficulties:
Beginner
Journeyman
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
Along with a short description of tasks, there can be links to additional details on the particular item and there can be a link to a contributor's guide that is applicable for the effort.
Finally, these tasks can be identified as collaborative and to be done among a group of people, not as solo activities.
I think there are many opportunities to use this as a nice on-ramp for areas we have available for folks to work.
-- Dennis E. Hamilton
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RE: [DISCUSS] HELP WANTED: Putting Help Wanted on OpenOffice.org
Posted by "Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>.
Recent discussions about help-wanted for Apache OpenOffice bring to mind that we have not taken advantage of this.
It is useful in that it provides a single item (could be on download page and other places) that expands into as mucy coverage as we are willing write items for.
Please take a look. See what could be done with respect to Documentation and Guides, for example, as well as other activities that we rely on volunteers for.
- Dennis
PS: A plus to using this system is that the help-wanted listings are visible beyond the AOO pages where we put widgets that filter for AOO help-wanted items. So someone looking into documentation work on any project would find our needs.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org]
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 10:32
> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: [DISCUSS] HELP WANTED: Putting Help Wanted on OpenOffice.org
>
> <https://helpwanted.apache.org/wtest.html>
>
> There is a blossoming Help Wanted arrangement that would be very useful
> for us.
>
> I propose that we set this up. Also, there are places on Wikis and
> other places where Help Wanted for the project using specific tags could
> be provided.
>
> See some of the tags that are already used and are categorized on the
> main Help Wanted page:
> <https://helpwanted.apache.org/>.
>
> The place to start might be with addition of the widget for
> project="openoffice" on
> <http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html> if not [also] on the
> home page.
>
> The Help Wanted system is a work in progress. But it is stable enough
> to start capturing requests.
>
> It may be a simpler way to obtain community support and further support
> in non-developer areas.
>
> There are the following types of tasks built-in so far:
>
> Programming and Development
> Web Design
> Documentation and Guides
> Marketing and Publicity
> Community Outreach
> Translation
>
> There are already the following skill requirements/difficulties:
>
> Beginner
> Journeyman
> Intermediate
> Advanced
> Expert
>
> Along with a short description of tasks, there can be links to
> additional details on the particular item and there can be a link to a
> contributor's guide that is applicable for the effort.
>
> Finally, these tasks can be identified as collaborative and to be done
> among a group of people, not as solo activities.
>
> I think there are many opportunities to use this as a nice on-ramp for
> areas we have available for folks to work.
>
>
>
> -- Dennis E. Hamilton
> orcmid@apache.org
> dennis.hamilton@acm.org +1-206-779-9430
> https://keybase.io/orcmid PGP F96E 89FF D456 628A
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