RE: [DISCUSS] HELP WANTED: Putting Help Wanted on OpenOffice.org

["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
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