[3370] in BarnOwl Developers
Re: Updating the list of projects on the website
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Dehnert)
Thu Feb 28 04:32:54 2013
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:32:36 -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: <512AFB36.9@mit.edu>
Pretty sure we have more than three active projects...
1. Please have somebody fill out
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zumk13yzo1kzKLPPZ8B7441_EbJH4KAp7f-a6hfMTVM/viewform
for each project
2. If you're willing and interested in mentoring prospectives who are
trying to get involved, please let me know.
Thanks,
Alex
On 02/25/2013 12:48 AM, Alex Dehnert wrote:
> 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/
>
> [...]
>
