Okay, there's a few jobs that need to be taken care of, none of them take up large amounts of time at the moment and are not likely to in the immediate future, however over the course of the project they will grow. You are (obviously) not expected to take on these tasks indefinitely so you can back out if they get to much or for most we can assign more people to help out as required.
The tasks required are: Mailing list administrator. I've been filling this role for a while now and it is very little work but I wouldn't mind off loading it so that I can concentrate on code for those extra few minutes. :) Basically, you need to help anyone who has trouble subscribing or unsubscribing (we've never had one yet) and approve/reject messages sent to the lists that are flagged for some reason (usually because they have attachments or are from a non-subscriber: ie spam). Tracker Manager Someone to make sure that suggestions sent to this list or to the HyperCard list gets logged in the feature tracker so that we don't forget it. They should also browse the tracker from time to time and check that things are in the right category and have been assigned to someone if required etc. Nothing major, just generally keeping things tidy and making sure stuff doesn't slip through the cracks. News Manager Someone to watch what's going on and put out mini press releases from time to time. They should go to the freecard-announce list, the sourceforge news items and for bigger announcements the HyperCard list. Documentation Manager Someone to organise documentation in the documentation tracker (http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=4139), collect up any documentation that gets posted to lists, websites etc and add it into the manager and review submissions to the documentation tracker for approval. Documentation Writers We need tons of documentation written. Everything from developer documentation for the design principles of FreeCard, coding standards etc to end user documentation (the FreeGUI project needs end user documentation and eventually so will we). Primary Contact Point I'm finding that I'm really slow at getting back to people lately so it would be good if someone else could take over as the contact point for FreeCard. Basically this involves greeting people who enquire about the status of FreeCard, telling them where we're up to and pointing them to this list. I don't get too much email but it would be good if someone could take over who was able to give rapid replies instead of taking a week like I tend to. Bug Manager As development continues we'll wind up getting bugs to be dealt with and someone will need to make sure that they all wind up in the sourceforge bug tracker (and that they're kept up to date in there). Pretty simple really, you look at the open bugs and if they've been open for a while with no action, prod the appropriate developers to get something done. :) Some knowledge of how the backend of FreeCard works would be useful but certainly not essential. And the big one: Website Manager Our website is in desperate need of an update. Stephan Schildberg started a redesign (previews available at http://www.scoid.net/freecard/website/) and we need either him or someone else to pick it up and finish it off. The essential ingreedients is that it explains the aim of the FreeCard project, the current status and how to get involved. There's a bunch of information on the current site describing how HyperCard works and various other information about the FreeCard project so it would be good to sort through that over time and pick out the useful bits and add it to the new website. Mostly though, we need to make it look like we're alive again. This could easily become a team of people who work on this so if anyone has experience managing a team of web designers your input would be appreciated here on how to keep the style consistent etc. Then of course we need coders. All kinds of coders are required. We need scripters to keep working on FreeGUI, C/C++ coders to continue investigating the option of writing a cross platform engine in C/C++ and Java coders to investigate the new Java engine. So much to be done and plenty of people to do it! If you can think of any other way you might be able to help let us know or even better just jump in and do it. Enough out of me for one night. It's bed time for me. There is much coding to be done tomorrow morning. Lets get this project back on the road! Adrian Sutton. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Freecard-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecard-general
