Just to second some of that, both incubator and outside, it would be cool if the ASF had a 'jobs board' of sorts, where projects could add "adverts" for people when they are short of specific help. Or conversely if I'm bored and want to do something a bit different where can I find projects who have a need for my skill set?
I can search distinct projects, but it would be nice to have a central location. On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 11:40 PM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > On Jan 9, 2016 14:58, "Ross Gardler" <ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > > > Everyone should read the subject and reset. > > +1 - the original subject line corresponds to that projects interested in > new activity. > > 3-5 times a week a student or IT hobbiest or professional developer or > website designer pings dev@community.a.o asking 'I would like to > contribute, where do I start?' These are of the 30-500 who looked at > apache.org pages with the same question. The stock answer is always > 'choose a project that interests you, and dive right in'. > > Is there a way to reframe this discussion as a collaboration of incubating > projects to create a landing page, perhaps with a query-by- programming > languages/skills/components needed that includes the terse project and > audience summaries for incubating efforts? Somewhere dev@community can > direct newcomers to help find their 'fit' or area of interest in the > foundation? > > TLPs have it sort-of-easy, most are well known names to their audiences. > Incubation efforts are less so, recently renamed and just assembling all > the pieces with the expected gaps throughout. > > Who would be interested in such an effort? Wondering if the Whimsy PMC > might be the platform to build such an ASF 'projects' search board? >
