[meego-network-fi] Re: Thank you all for your efforts, but webdevs are needed

  • From: "jukka@xxxxxxxxx" <jukka@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: meego-network-fi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 17:54:19 +0200

Let's have a "talkoot" some evening?

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Ilkka Laukkanen
<ilkka.s.laukkanen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Jarkko Moilanen
> <jarkko.moilanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This will - or need to - change now. From this moment onwards, Heikki will
>> do just bug fixing in the Summit pages and his role in portal development in
>> close to non-existing. Therefore we need a few web developers (Drupal
>> platform) to continue Summit pages development (in small scale) and to begin
>> portal development. If such commitment is not found, we will not have
>> portal. This is not meant as extortion, but as a statement of the situation.
>> Again, I'm asking a lot from the community, but there is no alternative. We
>> need to take responsibility of the web development to gain indepedence from
>> Hermia and meetup.com.
>
> Here's me, announcing my willingness to pitch in --> \o/
>
> I've written a bunch of webapps for a bunch of purposes, some of them
> even in PHP. I don't have any professional experience though, and
> haven't coded in PHP in years. I also have never extended or
> customized Drupal, I've just set it up a few times out of personal
> interest. I'm ready, willing and able, though :)
>
> What I unfortunately am *not* ready to do is offer myself as a lead
> for portal development -- unfortunately I don't believe I have the
> time right now. I'm an extra pair of agile fingers who could spare a
> few hours a week to do what he can for the community.
>
>> A few of us have started to define what the portal could be:
>> http://wiki.meego.com/Local_MeeGo_Networks/MeeGo_Network_Finland/Meeting_Agenda_2011_02_06#Community_Portal.
>> Even though some kind of initial requirement document has been started, it
>> is just a suggestion. What I would like to see, is that this community
>> defines what our portal includes and how it works. This requires that more
>> members get involved both in defining the initial structure and in the
>> implementation. We can start the discussion on this mailing list and
>> continue it in more appropriate forum later.
>
> A place for meeting minutes for MNFI specific meetings could be nice.
> Maybe just mirrored from where the #meego-meeting bot currently
> stashes 'em?
>
> Some sort of task management system could also be good to have. There
> could be stuff there that's just waiting for someone from the
> community to go ahead and do it, and it would be a single centralized
> place to see what's up with what. Portal improvement suggestions could
> also go there.
>
>
>
> --
> Ilkka
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>
>

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