Volunteer for event planning project.

[Trent Shipley]

On Wednesday 2005-03-09 15:18, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> The presentation took the whole meeting, so we didn't get much chance to
> discuss the project beyond recommending an announcement of some sort
> this week..
>
> As far as that goes:
>
> PLUG has discussed, at the development meeting, initiating an open
> source (GPL) project to create an event planning software system,
> initial focus will be on supporting those features needed for monthly
> installfests, followed by larger installfests, free/open meeting events,
> conferences, symposia, and other event types as needed.
>
> I have volunteered to act as an initial project lead and software
> architect to get things up and running.
>
> At this point, we need 3-5 other people willing to commit some amount of
> time (2 hours per week, or more) over the next 6 months to get the
> initial development done.
>
> We also need the following:
> People willing to try the software and provide feedback on features,
> fit-and-finish, and any defect discovered
> Someone willing to maintain (but not necessarily host) the project website
> People willing to help us with feature requests

I do not LIKE system or application administration jobs.

That said, I have no strong feelings about clerical or librarian jobs such as 
change or defect tracking.  

As a trained behavioral scientist I am interested in things like domain 
analysis and consumer liason (and associated busy work).   In a heavier 
methodology these would be things like business analysis, requirements 
assessment, systems analysis, and usability design.  While I have applicable 
training, I have never used my skills in these capacities.  I would find it 
entirely understandable if Joseph chose to keep these critical roles to 
himself in the first iteration or give them to someone like Eric "Shubes" who 
says he has a lot of experience with this.

I'd also love to get in some programming time, but again lack of training and 
experience may be a problem.

See:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~tshipley/Resume/
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~tshipley/Resume/Resume_Database_and_Software.Long.html

Note that since I am chronically unemployed, I can basically work on the 
project until I either get bored or stuck.


> The proposed development methodology is Lightweight/Open which adapts
> many of the features of XP to open source development.

Please provide references documenting the Lightweight/Open methodology.  I am 
familiar with eXtreme Programming.