Hi all, It’s that time again; we’re coming up to release time for 25.05, and that means picking the team for the 25.11 cycle!
Please see the roles page at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_25.11 and add your name to a role if you would like to propose volunteering for it. The team vote will take place on May 7th at the development meeting after the next. We’d love to see some new faces on the team, and it’s just as important to have non-developers helping to guide the ship as it is the developers! Some roles we’d like to draw your attention to: * Bug Wranglers <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Bug_wrangler> - We can always do with more bug wranglers! These people love to keep things tidy, and Bugzilla is always in need of your help. We need people to help manage ‘the list’, identify the duplicates, promote bugs to specialists, and find people to do signoffs and testing. Everyone is invited to this party; we need you! This is a great first-time role to take on, and it makes a real difference to active community contributors’ lives! * Documentation Team <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Documentation_team> - The documentation team is a growing team that’s made great inroads into bringing Koha’s documentation up to date and ensuring we have a well-documented piece of software. There’s plenty more to do, and they’re always on the lookout for new contributors. The documentation team is a super-friendly group and would love to see you join them. What I’d also love to see are developers taking a look at the documentation team to support with infrastructure, approaches, or more technically challenging parts of Koha. * Wiki Curators <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Wiki_team> - Koha’s wiki is bursting at the seams with good information, but we need your help to bring order to the chaos and keep improving the content. If you’ve got an interest in maintaining an area of the Wiki, helping identify out-of-date information, or categorising data, then this is a job for you. * Meeting Facilitators <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Meeting_facilitators> - We have regular meetings in the community to discuss development progress, documentation tasks, and general community needs. It would be really helpful to have someone to help promote those meetings, keep them on track, and work on the minutes. Right now, these meetings are run by me with help from the attendees, except for the documentation team, where the burden currently lies on the team managers. I’d also like to initiate and work on the meeting automations and especially: share knowledge! * Accessibility Advocate <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Accessibility_advocate> - In Koha, we really want to be open and accessible to all, but accessibility is an area that many of us are not as aware of as we should be. We’d like to have some people helping to promote best practices and report accessibility issues we might not be aware of. If you’d like to volunteer for any of the roles, I am happy to chat about the ones I have experience in or point you to a person that is better suited to give you an overview. We don’t bite, so be curious and be confident. No matter what you do, in the end, it’s always a rewarding experience and an opportunity to grow that you don’t find just anywhere. Kind regards, Paul Derscheid _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
