Howe about the next volunteer that comes by asking for project ideas, we have them build a volunteer wrangling system? A bit tongue-in-cheek here, but there's a need that can be filled there.
The difficulty, from my perspective, in guiding volunteers is that there is So Much under the Apache umbrella. Volunteers often do not come advertising their skills - do you want to do Java? Great, there's 100 projects for you. Do you want to do web development? That could be 75 more. Coming to Apache and saying you want to work on something is like showing up to work at <Large Company X> but not having a team there that expects you. There are hundreds of projects and some of them are likely to be a good fit, but the process for finding them is very expensive. The volunteers that show up and say "I want to work on Spark!" are the easy ones, and we can immediately point them at the appropriate project mailing lists. The volunteers that have no directions need a process. Mike On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Ross Gardler <ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Before we go deep and technical in tooling, I think we should put a list > together that *this* community would like to see. We can worry about other > projects when we have or own house in order. > > A simple list, in the form of replies in this thread would be good > progress. In fact a first contribution from someone could then be to > summarize this thread. > > A brainstorming thread. No judgement of ideas, just a list. > > If we get that list then we can think about collating it and making it > accessible via tools as suggested in this thread already > > Ross > > Sent from my Windows Phone > ________________________________ > From: Rich Bowen<mailto:rbo...@rcbowen.com> > Sent: 2/4/2016 3:07 AM > To: dev<mailto:dev@community.apache.org> > Subject: Guiding volunteers > > Several times a month we get people either here, or contacting us > individually, saying that they want to participate, and we don't do a > great job of steering them to Good Things. > > I'd like to see a list (I don't care about the technology, and simple is > better) of ideas that people can work on. Things that take 10 minutes. > Things that take 2 months. Everything in between. People willing to > mentor and help, but who don't have the time to do it themselves. > > I have a list of ideas that I would like to do some day, and have > recently accepted that I will never have the time to do them. But I want > someone to do them. > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fapachecon.com%2f&data=01%7c01%7cRoss.Gardler%40microsoft.com%7cebe7dc03f0744e0ad6e708d32d535305%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=stCwVmrVW6gFbKnOXYVMNMULnRcLQiZZnCkvxKJncdQ%3d > - @apachecon >
