On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Greg Chase <g...@gregchase.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> 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 information >> about their needs. The result would be a public web page potential >> volunteers could search. >> >> Ideally, it would be on a whimsey-like system, but a start could be made >> by just defining a format and keeping the master page in a PMC chair >> accessible SVN archive. >> >> > This is a wonderful idea. I've been looking for a way to get the various > incubating communities I'm helping organize recruit new contributors. This > would help solve this problem by making it easier for (p)PMC's to > articulate what they would like help with from new community members. > > Obviously it would be an adhoc system, and up to projects to fill out and > keep their want ad's up to date. Perhaps a rule of the system would be > that want ads are automatically deleted after a month if they aren't > visited and renewed by project members to verify they are still current.
I've seen a system like that: http://savannah.gnu.org/people/ Information there seems very useful to me. Woonsan > > So basically, I'm volunteering to help here :) > > -Greg
