RE: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
ginal Message- > From: Rich Bowen [mailto:rbo...@rcbowen.com] > Sent: Friday, February 5, 2016 23:37 > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: Guiding volunteers > > > > On 02/05/2016 08:23 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > > This focus on tooling is the wrong fo

RE: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-06 Thread Ross Gardler
my Windows Phone From: Dennis E. Hamilton<mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org> Sent: ‎2/‎6/‎2016 10:20 AM To: dev@community.apache.org<mailto:dev@community.apache.org> Subject: RE: Guiding volunteers In the case of GSoC mentoring, one needed change is to add

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-05 Thread Rich Bowen
(there are many ways this can be done, all of them are > good ;-) > > > > Ross > > -Original Message- > From: Venkat Raman [mailto:ramanindy...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 7:55 PM > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: Guiding v

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-05 Thread Tony Stevenson
t Raman [mailto:ramanindy...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 7:55 PM > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: Guiding volunteers > > Hi - > > It would be extremely helpful to have systems like savannah to newbies to > dive in based on their skill sets and area of i

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Sergio Fernández
I used to ignored off-topic (or not so focused) mails to this list. But in the last months I've change to try to provide a pointer to what people are actually looking for. Is that find, Rich? What else do you have in mind? On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: >

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Rich, On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > ...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 Given our distributed and dynamic nature I think such a list can only work in terms of a

Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Rich Bowen
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.

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
An alternative approach would be a help-wanted page, organized according to skills, maintained on the same sort of system as the board agenda. Each PMC chair whose project is looking for volunteers would supply information about their needs. The result would be a public web page potential

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Venkat Raman
Hi - It would be extremely helpful to have systems like savannah to newbies to dive in based on their skill sets and area of interest.I would like to contribute as well. But, struggling in the same way as others to get started. Regards, Venkat On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Patricia Shanahan

RE: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Ross Gardler
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'

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Mike Drob
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

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > ...Before we go deep and technical in tooling, I think we should put a list > together > that *this* community would like to see Maybe I missed something but I haven't seen people looking at doing comdev

RE: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Ross Gardler
dev@community.apache.org> Subject: Re: Guiding volunteers On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 4:31 PM, 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 Maybe

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Woonsan Ko
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Greg Chase wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > >> An alternative approach would be a help-wanted page, organized according >> to skills, maintained on the same sort of system as the board agenda.

Re: Guiding volunteers

2016-02-04 Thread Greg Chase
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > An alternative approach would be a help-wanted page, organized according > to skills, maintained on the same sort of system as the board agenda. Each > PMC chair whose project is looking for volunteers would supply