-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 06.05.2010 10:40, schrieb Greg Boggs: > > Thanks for clarifying David. The word scholarship should not be used > because we aren't buying someone's education, we are trying to get work > done on a contract basis. > > Contacting other groups and getting more involvement from women is > great. You can start by posting it on the index page of wesnoth.org > where, currently excluded, potential contributers will see it. Lets > shout it out to both open source and proprietary groups! Lets seek out > contributers who may have never considered open source before. > > Instead of offering money in an exclusive way to only a small group (of > mostly men) that we already know as good open source developers, lets > offer this chance to as many people as we can in an inclusive way. By > only approaching programmers who we know have a solid open source > credentials and limiting information to only those willing to break > through the wall, we will exclude women: > > http://www.codeanthem.com/blog/2010/03/should-you-judge-a-developer-by-their-open-source-contributions/ > > A Solution: > > Lets create clearly defined goals and transparent testable milestones > that can be agreed to when someone is hired. If you don't know what you > need, then a contractor won't know how to meet your expectations. > > One way to be inclusive is to expand the requirements. It's not about > lowering our standards, it's about admitting that we need more than just > c programmers. We don't just want female developers, we want female > contributors. Another area which Wesnoth could benefit from on a > contract basis is quality assurance and testing. Lastly, Developers > write great code, but designers make great interfaces. We could also > hire a designer for an improved lobby. > > Questions to be answered: > > Ask yourself what the real advantage to limiting the applicants is. Will > this really improve the outcome? Will we consider people who cannot > afford to work full time, or can we be accepting of those who don't have > enough money to give up their second job? If we have no one to oversee > these contractors, rather than expecting them to do it on their own, can > someone be paid for their time spent bringing the contractors up to speed?
Greg, you have clearly *NOT* understood Dave's intention. Yes, he talks about a grant for proven members. This is intentional. If you open it for everyone you do need to provide (lots of) guidance. We don't have the people for this. Beside this you have to check that work really is getting done and the likes. Dave would prefer to have the "grant concept" work based on trust. No explicit deadlines and no milestones and the likes. Just trust in those that we know we can trust to provide some reasonable work. What we do *NOT* want with the concept is "hired workers". And yes, this is a reason not to put it on the frontpage. Just see it as a concept of rewarding people that already do contribute. The "attract women into the project" part is *DIFFERENT* from this. Yes, we do want to have female contributors, too. The matter here is that we need some way to attract them. For those "currently not inside the project" people we would need some kind of scholarship/mentoring simply to provide some kind of guide when it is required, which helps the ease of getting into things. The goal here is not to get some project implemented but to attract long term contributors. Cheers, Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkviil4ACgkQfFda9thizwW2ewCfXB836+U+u4Z6KdqUYoBYp7D/ blwAn2+9+Bd6wQwnA1c/CM06g94+LEWY =RAAb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
