On 2/4/2016 10:35 AM, Greg Chase 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 like the idea of automatic disappearance, but maybe make it three
months and tie it to the board report cycle - every time a PMC files a
board report, it should also check and update its help wanted.
So basically, I'm volunteering to help here :)
I would also like to help, but don't know how to get something like this
started.
Patricia
