On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Paul Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 10/20/2010 10:50 PM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote: >>> Someone in the "December 2010 Fedora Election Plan" thread mentioned >>> having a "job" site for Fedora. I wanted to extend this conversation a bit. >>> >>> So here's the way I see it. We could have a website that is a central >>> repository for jobs open within Fedora. It can be used for continuously >>> open jobs like writers and editors for the Docs Project to jobs that are >>> open every so often like leadership positions and specialty positions >>> like the Elections lead to positions on the different committees. >>> >>> Having this information on it's own page allows people looking to either >>> volunteer for the first time or looking for a new direction to take >>> within Fedora a one-stop shopping location. >>> >>> Each job would have a title, description, and a link to where to go to >>> get more information (think classified ads). We already do this a bit >>> on the Join page[1] but it isn't really good for short-term postings and >>> there isn't any way to get new positions out on the Planet or identi.ca >>> which is a better way to get people's attention. >>> >> >> I'd like to see this taken a bit further as well. It would be nice to >> have a public "classifieds" board where Fedora Hosted projects could put >> up listings of tasks they'd like to see get done. For example, if a >> project is looking to recruit additional coders, they could submit a >> posting looking for someone to solve certain entry-level bugs. If they >> want to expand their audience, maybe they put up a request for someone >> to translate their project into a particular language. >> >> Máirín Duffy mentioned elsewhere a while back "imagine an RPG geared >> around helping folks earn points for #FLOSS contributions. it could work >> for any FLOSS project". I think this would be a terrific idea, >> especially if merged with a "job board" as described above. >> >> Even imaginary reward systems like Epic Win >> (http://www.rexbox.co.uk/epicwin/) serve as an excellent motivator. The >> concept of a "Level 30 Contributor" would be both entertaining and >> encouraging. > > Aren't there some vibrant free software community services out in the > wild that do this already, which we could leverage for this sort of > problem? Offhand, I know that OpenHatch does this type of thing (http://www.openhatch.org); I think this would benefit us to use, though I think we'd want to figure out a way to have redundancy between the OpenHatch listings and postings on a Fedora web page of some sort. > > Also, related but not the same -- a while ago Mike McGrath created a > team for dealing with short-term, targeted needs that are beyond > entry-level: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Engineering_Services > I mention it just because I think it's a great idea that can always > use people who are beyond novices but are looking to give back and > want to start by sinking their teeth into a short-term, well-bounded > problem. > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > advisory-board mailing list > advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board > _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
