Hi Noah, Something like:
We’re looking for help with our web administration console - Fauxton. We would appreciate help with web design, development, user experience and testing. Here are a list of easy JIRA[1] tickets to get started. Cheers Garren [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2178?jql=project%20%3D%20COUCHDB%20AND%20component%20%3D%20Fauxton%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20cf[12310270]%20%3D%20%22New%20Contributors%20Level%20%28Easy%29%22 On 02 Sep 2014, at 2:08 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > My goal here was to better emphasis: > > 1. Our focus on building a welcoming, supportive, inclusive, and > diverse community. > > 2. Our valuing of non-coding contributions. > > And also, basically this is a recruitment ad. Hehe. > > Garren, the current text meaning to request help with Fauxton (and > other web dev, design things) is this: > >> We’re also looking for help with web design (for the web administration >> console), user experience design, and illustration. > > How would you reword this? For a start, I think it should be "web dev" > not "web design". > > One or two sentences for this, ideally. > > > On 2 September 2014 10:14, Garren Smith <gar...@apache.org> wrote: >> Hi Noah, >> >> That looks awesome. Could you add a section about Fauxton. There is two ways >> people can contribute. By looking at the jira tickets and here are a list of >> easy ones to get started [1] or by just testing fauxton and reporting any >> bugs. >> >> Cheers >> Garren >> >> [1] >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2178?jql=project%20%3D%20COUCHDB%20AND%20component%20%3D%20Fauxton%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20cf[12310270]%20%3D%20%22New%20Contributors%20Level%20%28Easy%29%22 >> >> >> On 02 Sep 2014, at 12:08 AM, Andy Wenk <andyw...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi Noah, >>> >>> cool - I really like it. It is written very "welcoming". You mentioned all >>> "contributing opportunities" in a very interesting way. Top! >>> >>> I suggest to mention the update in the next news ... >>> >>> Thanks a lot and Cheers >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> P.S.: fixed a minor typo. >>> >>> >>> On 1 September 2014 21:58, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> I refreshed the "How to contribute" section here: >>>> >>>> http://couchdb.apache.org/#contribute >>>> >>>> Lemme know what you think. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Noah Slater >>>> https://twitter.com/nslater >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Andy Wenk >>> Hamburg - Germany >>> RockIt! >>> >>> GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 >>> >>> https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc >> > > > > -- > Noah Slater > https://twitter.com/nslater
