On Mon, May 13, 2019 12:23 am, Paul Sutton wrote: > lets discuss further and look at other examples, I am sure there were two > links for this, I just posted the fedora one but I wonder if there are > other projects with similar tools,
With the link you sent, took me a while to get to C/C++ programming and then all the projects that they mentioned weren't really of interest to me. If we do something like this, we should leave it more open-ended. Maybe someone has a great idea for volunteering that hasn't been categorized yet. We could also just create a simple page listing general categories/ideas where help is needed and ask users to join the list or e-mail to discuss further. Interactive can be very nice, but only if it can get information to the reader that he/she wants. I've seen several projects that ask for help, but just don't have the follow through. Either they don't list enough areas of interest to satisfy everyone or don't tell you what to do to take the next step, get involved and get started. Some sites leave up old lists with items they no longer want help on. Also, with some projects, when you volunteer to help, they don't know what to do with the effort. One Open Source project asked for help. When I ported the code to another platform and offered to send them the patches, instead of saying thank you, they asked for it to work with a different compiler (which I don't even use). Some Linux distributions use volunteers and don't even thank them or sometimes throw out their efforts. I remember reading and following all the documentation on how to package something for a distribution and some packages they took and some they ignored because it didn't meet unwritten rules on how they wanted it packaged. I recently saw a distribution asking for help and for people to write custom applications for their system. When I asked what kind of applications they were looking for, they didn't even have an answer. If a project to recruit volunteers is going to work well, people involved should be open to listening to ideas, very clear about what steps a volunteer should take and what exactly needs to be done for the work to be officially accepted and polite to the volunteer (for example: thank them for the effort). Sorry to go off on a bit of a tangent. I do believe it's the message that's most important not the medium. So, we can come up with a cool interactive example with all the latest web 2.0 bells and whistles, but if it doesn't convey useful information to the reader, it won't be effective. Sincerely, Laura -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
