Just free thinking here. Stop me if I'm an idiot. :) We've clearly got LOTS of demand. What we need is more participants. BUT... we don't want to burden participants like we've burdened poor Thomas. :) Maybe we need more structure and tools to scale participation -- and a way to "guarantee" response times. So let me bounce this structure off you: 1. THE RECRUITER PAGE. Maybe we make a real easy webpage that says something like this: Join Up! Lots of messaging here about how you're sharing the fun! Tell us: * Name and email; * Where you live; * Whether you prefer to send CDs, DVDs, or both; * Where you're willing to send CDs/DVDs; * How many per week you're willing to send. 2. THE INPUT QUEUE. Same as what we have now, except the request goes into a simple database that tracks address, date of request, and who's handling it, if anyone. 3. THE REQUEST ENGINE. Basically, it goes through and matches volunteers to requests -- at a rate that precisely matches the volunteer's desire to help. If someone can send one DVD / set of CDs a week, that's exactly what we ask them to send. 4. THE BACKLOG. We show the backlog on a webpage, and given the number of requests we have, we estimate a delivery time for every single CD/DVD request we have in the queue. 5. THE RATING. :) Once someone promises to send CDs/DVDs to someone, we need a way to find out if it happened. Actually, what we *really* need is a way to find out if it *didn't* happen. Maybe an "Oops!" counter. If someone accumulates a few Oopses, they'll get a gentle reminder that they made a promise. If they accumulate a bunch of Oopses, they're dropped from the rotation. ===== So. Thoughts? There's some work here, but for a reasonably competent web programmer... it's really not tough. Just requires someone with hands and time. :) Might also be nice to donate such an application to the community at large... --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ------------------------------------------------------------- -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
