Much like any other open source project, with perhaps significantly more direction. Our team includes not only coders and testers, but pr/ marketing, bizdev, and pm's. So, we develop product roadmaps with specific feature sets and delivery dates, then carve up the work to be done and get to it.
I see the majority of people contributing remotely, as most folks do on an open source project. The main benefit I see is a clear direction on what is being built and the knowledge that when its time for release, it will go into production on a real live site performing a critical role in enabling volunteering. Part of what I want to figure out with the community is how best to enable you to identify an interesting chunk of work that needs to get done, and do it. SnapImpact projects, right now, host our code on github and use http://community.rallydev.com (its a local Boulder company and they have been great supporters) for developing product roadmaps, tracking feature development, bugs, and status. The v1.X AfG code uses Google code and that tool set. We're pretty much an agile shop, in town volunteers meet almost every Tuesday evening and we run a 4 hour or so "sprint". As an incentive, we provide beer and pizza and its usually a fun time, so maybe we can coax you to Boulder once a week. For remote volunteers, we'll figure out some cool ways to celebrate deliveries and milestones to make it so you have fun as well. Basically if you have any desire to help, with or without skills, we can usually figure out something where you learn new things and it moves us closer to our goal line. There are some challenges to working with a geographically disperse team (I spent 8 years as a full-time telecommuter), but I'm sure we can find creative solutions so everyone can have a rewarding experience and "Make Doing Good Easy". Bottom line, SnapCamp is just the beginning. We have a massive opportunity to do good, but its going to require a lot of work. Dave On Feb 2, 1:32 pm, cody koeninger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 2, 1:19 pm, Dave Angulo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There is lots of work to get done and we're planning a kickoff event > > in Boulder, Feb 19-21, to get some > > momentumhttp://www.snapimpact.org/blog/?p=468. > > Outside of that, we'd love to figure out how to best leverage any > > interest from this community to make the project successful. > > For people who are not local to Boulder, can you clarify how you see > ongoing contribution working? > > I might be able to make it up for that weekend, but would hate for > that to be the limit of my involvement. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
