How about having something similar to the eudyptula challenge (http://eudyptula-challenge.org/) ?
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Peter Grasch <pe...@grasch.net> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > some of us who missed the day trip today in Brno were discussing ways > to get new or less proactive people involved with KDE. Right now, we > are a community of very proactive, inner-directed people. We find > something to do, or make up something to do that makes us happy. It > would be great to have people who are not of this personality or those > who have no idea where to start, to get a nice choice of what we know > we need. > > The vague idea is to offer people descriptions of "missions" that they > can take up, to lower the barrier of entry. What we have come up with > is a proposal to reuse part of Brainstorm, and extend that in a new > direction. We envision a unified place where developers aggregate > "missions" of different size and scope. This place is meant to be the > go-to place for people who want to get involved with KDE, accessible > through a prominent "get involved" link on kde.org. > > The kind of "missions" we envision are: > > * Junior Jobs > * GSoC, SoK, GCi > * new team members wanted > * specific areas needing attention > * applications and libraries needing maintainers > > Brainstorm is a place for users to dream about cool stuff, and even > vote up the ideas. What has been missing is developer buy-in, as we > understand it. Right now there is a section in Brainstorm called In > Development. What we are proposing is to launch Mission on the Forum > as well. Project managers could close threads and link to the new > Mission. > > This could also be a place to integrate idea generation for GSoC > projects, Summer of KDE , even GCi tasks, possibly allowing users to > rate them in importance. If we can get in the habit of doing this all > year round, getting ready for GSoC, SoK, and GCi will be easier. > > We have our first mission, once this is created on the Forum: > https://blogs.kde.org/2014/08/16/konqueror-looking-maintainer > > Valorie Zimmerman > Michael Bohlender > Heinz Wiesinger > David Faure > Peter Grasch > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
