Re: [tdf-discuss] The need of a central employment-office-like web structure for TDF/LibO volunteers

Hi Gianluca,
On 15/05/2011 10:59, Gianluca Turconi wrote:
> Hello *,
>
> I've contributed for several years to the OOo project and I'm here 
> around the TDF/LibO one since its birth.
>
> In this time, I've followed several mailing lists and projects and 
> though I know how much complex is a project of this kind, I really 
> feel a sensation of "wastage of resources" (please pay attention to 
> the quotation marks :-) when I try to understand how to contribute in 
> my actual limited time that, indeed, may be the same limited time of a 
> "average no-techie contributor".
>
> I'd like seeing a central employment-office-like web structure where 
> the maintainers or already active contributors posts their "Requests 
> for help" with an estimated amount of time needed to complete the 
> requested tasks and where a wannabe contributor can get a "ticket" in 
> which he/she can clearly know what he/she has to do and who has to 
> contact once he/she has completed the requested task.
I really like your idea, such a tool would help a lot to organize and 
manage the work.
> It should be a web site as easy as possible.
>
> Home page with 2 sections only:
>
> Code developing contribution (Easy Hacks and other things) - Other 
> skills contribution (Documentation, art, marketing, ...)
>
> A "employment ticket" should involve:
>
> a) task requested: translation of a doc, fulfillment of a task, 
> creation of an artwork, ...
>
> b) skills needed to complete the task: knowledge of a foreign 
> language, artistic skills, rhetorical skills for public speeches, ...
>
> b) estimated time needed to complete such task: 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 
> ...
>
> c) contact email of the person "in charge" for the requested task.
>
> This "system" should be less dispersive than a wiki and completely 
> oriented to get "more contributions per contributor's available time 
> unit".
>
> Any comment?
the system could be a bug tracker with a less technical UI than BZ, but 
I think a wiki with a good template could be enough. Why do you say 
"dispersive"?

Kind regards
Sophie


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