[3361] in BarnOwl Developers
Updating the list of projects on the website
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Dehnert)
Mon Feb 25 00:48:56 2013
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:48:38 -0500
From: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: "sipb-vice-chair@mit.edu" <sipb-vice-chair@MIT.EDU>
To: sipb-projects@mit.edu
CC: "sipb-vice-chair@mit.edu" <sipb-vice-chair@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1302131446440.23041@novgorod.mit.edu>
Hi folks,
I'm trying to update http://sipb.mit.edu/projects/ to be easier for
prospectives to use to find interesting projects. To do that, I'd
appreciate it if each project could fill out
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zumk13yzo1kzKLPPZ8B7441_EbJH4KAp7f-a6hfMTVM/viewform
so I know what to put for your bugtracker, whether you're actively
recruiting[*], etc.. The more complete your answers the better, but I'd
rather you left things blank or emailed me your responses than didn't
put in anything (and if you don't do anything, I'll probably assume your
project is dead).
You can see which projects have responded already at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zumk13yzo1kzKLPPZ8B7441_EbJH4KAp7f-a6hfMTVM/viewanalytics.
Also, if you're willing and interested in helping prospectives get
involved in SIPB projects (in general, or just for your projects) please
let me know, including which projects you want to help with.
Thanks,
Alex
(Incoming SIPB Vice-Chair)
[*] I have a question "Activity level" on the form. As guidelines on
what the options mean:
Actively recruiting vs. active:
* Would you like prospectives pointed your way when they say "Hi! What
can I work on?"
* If a prospective comes up to you and says "Hi! Underwater basket
weaving sounds awesome! What can I do to help with the underwater
basket-weaving project?", can you easily point them at something to do
and supply reasonable amounts of mentoring?
If "yes" to both, I'd probably consider you actively recruiting. If
"no" to both, then probably not.
Active vs. inactive vs. moribund:
If somebody's made commits or taken updates or something on your project
in the last three months, you're active.
For inactive vs. moribund:
Do you have people who will give advice, do code review, or have ideas
for where the project should go? If so, you're just inactive; if not,
you're moribund.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Using the website for recruiting?
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:02:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@MIT.EDU>
To: sipb-outreach@mit.edu
CC: sipb-www@mit.edu
The SIPB website seems like it should be a good tool for recruiting, and
in particular for helping prospectives find things to get involved in.
[...]
For the Projects page, it seems like there are a couple of key things we
want to get across (for recruiting, at least):
* What projects exist?
* What are good ways to get started? Obvious components of this are
where to find the code and bugtracker (and if applicable, any
easy/starter/hackathon tickets). Another plausible component is "Who
should I talk to?", though I worry about that getting outdated if we put
people, or feeling impersonal (and thus not useful) if we don't.
* Are projects interested in new people? (Scripts can absolutely use
more labor, and I think we at least pretend that we'll spend time
helping interested people get involved. I think Linerva, SIPB AFS,
sipb-noc, and some other projects are mostly not enthusiastically
recruiting.
It seems like it's hard for somebody to easily get that information off
the Projects page. (Most of it is there, but it's not really skimmable.)
My hypothesis is that converting that page to a table might be helpful.
Does that make sense? Do people have preferred alternatives/
[...]
