I'm willing to do open-source programming and even sponsor open-source programming for family history. I'd like to get responses on what people think is the most effective way to get started. Here are some ideas; I'm interested in feedback on these ideas and other ideas.
(1) BarCamps. I could attend and help sponsor the BarCampUtah that Phil Burns is putting together if others interested in doing open-source programming for family history are planning to attend. (2) Monthly meetings. I could possibly organize a monthly meeting where people could get together to coordinate work on open-source family history projects. The meeting could either be in-person (Utah Valley, with food), or online (Skype/IRC). (3) Bounties. A bounty is a small payment offered for someone to develop a particular feature on an open-source project. I could offer bounties for example on a MediaWiki (Wikipedia) <flickr> tag handler that would display thumbnails of images from flickr on wiki pages, a MediaWiki <blog> tag handler to display the posts from a blog (rss feed), or an online (implemented in Macromedia Flex) pedigree manager. -dallan _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
