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 > github.com/ilkka > twitter.com/ilkkalaukkanen > >