Re: [kde-community] Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is.....
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
Re: [kde-community] Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is.....
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
Re: [kde-community] Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is.....
Hi Peter, I did have the idea that I mentioned on here a while back of possibly setting up a job board, so people can apply for jobs, or submit their details (current occupation and experience etc.) if they're not sure where they would be useful, so they can be guided into certain areas. It would make promotion easier as well as you can just promote the one job, and one link. I think a more anonymous, and formal process might be better for some people, especially those with less confidence. There are software packages that can handle this kind of thing already; however it would be better if it were properly integrated into the kde.org website rather than another bolt on. I am currently trying to come up with a plan for consolidation the would take this sort of thing into consideration. There is also the problem that some of these things are more events than jobs, so again this is something that needs thinking about. Kind regards, David. On 11 Sep 2014 10:45, 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
Re: [kde-community] Fwd: Top 15 Mailinglists with messages in moderation
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Valorie Zimmerman valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Ben Cooksley bcooks...@kde.org wrote: Hi all, A number of our mailing lists appear to be being insufficiently moderated. Can we please have volunteers for moderating these lists, or indications that they can be closed? @Board: Please moderate your queue more regularly. Inspection of your queue reveals a number of very old messages in there which should be dealt with. Thanks, Ben -- Forwarded message -- Subject: Top 15 Mailinglists with messages in moderation To: sysad...@kde.org 109 kexi 72 kde-artists 70 kget 62 kde-commits 40 kde-i18n-fry 33 kde-perl 33 kde-i18n-pt 31 kpovmodeler-devel 24 owncloud 23 konq-bugs 19 kde-licensing 18 kde-ev-marketing 17 kbabel 16 kde-solaris 16 kde-pr 15 kompare-devel 13 kde-l10n-hu 13 kde-el 12 kde-extra-gear 12 kde-bugs-dist 12 freenx-knx 11 kde-ev-board 11 kde-de 10 kde-networkmanager 9 kde-webmaster I can take any of the lists left over. I just add them to my cli listadmin queue and delete, delete, delete the spam. A few more lists adds only minutes to the daily job. If nobody has any objections, i'll reset the passwords for konq-bugs and kde-bugs-dist and send them to Valorie. In regards to kde-artists, kget, owncloud, kde-perl, kde-solaris and kpovmodeler-devel, I would like to close these lists unless there is a reason to retain them. For the owncloud list, that has since migrated to their own systems I believe. Thanks, Ben Valorie ___ 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
