Project Outreach, Reply to Nominate your Project

[Steve Holmes]

I don't know if you wanted private replies or have them posted to the 
list but Thunderbird didn't make it easy for me to reply privately so 
here's one nomination so far.

I would like to nominate elinks, a really fine text based web browser. 
Unfortunately, the javascript support is very poor at this time and 
would probably require a major facelift to that support to include DOM 
support.  I only mention it because a surprisingly large number of 
people still use it and seem to sware by it but I personally find the 
javascript support so poor that I go and use Firefox instead.  But it 
might be an interesting project to get involved with.

On 02/27/2011 06:18 PM, Paul Hahn wrote:
> This was originally posted to the dev list, but I am copying it here
> to get some more participation.  Thanks, PSH.
>
>
> Greetings,
>
>
> Earlier this year Ed and I got together and planned out the next 6
> months of PLUG-Dev meetings. We have posted the results to this forum
> and are working to keep the PLUG web site up-to-date, so that everyone
> knows what is going on. It is our hope that by doing this, interest in
> PLUG Development activities will increase.
>
> For your reference, future meetings are as follows:
>
> * March: MV-Proc and Project Outreach
> * April: DBUS Presentation
> * May: Debian Package Management Presentation
> * June: Discussion on source code control systems
> * July:  Project Outreach Pizza Party (hackfest or presentation on
> work accomplished)
>
> One of the ideas that I hope will increase interest has been dubbed
> "Project Outreach". Project Outreach is a way for PLUG-dev to give
> back to the larger Linux community. This project involves PLUG
> adopting a free software project and contributing our time to making
> it better.
>
> The first item of business for Project Outreach is to nominate
> projects. The nominated projects will be evaluated at the March
> PLUG-dev meeting by meeting participants and a winner (or maybe two)
> will be selected by secret ballot (this means you should show up to
> the March meeting if you want to vote for your favorite project).
>
> So, at this time we are looking for project nominations. The project's
> nominated should meet the following criteria:
>
> * The project should be a project that appeals to a broad base of PLUG members.
>
> * The project should be in a state where improvement, or addition, is need.
>
> * The project should need contributions from people of varying skill
> levels (A complicated kernel driver for your proprietary hardware
> would not be a good option for a project).
>
> * We are looking for projects in programming languages typically used
> by GNU Linux developers. This means C, C++, PHP, Python, Perl, etc.
>
> * The project must be free software, it should meet Debian inclusion guidelines.
>
>
> Project Outreach means that future meetings will involve more than
> just listening to presentations (although we will still have them, as
> per the schedule). It means PLUG-dev members will be rolling up our
> sleeves during hackfest's. We need more than just coders at these
> hackfests, however. Free and open source projects need translation,
> documentation, design work, beta testing, packaging, and bug fixing.
> These are talents that many PLUG members, whether experienced
> developers, beginning developers, or brand new users, can contribute
> to.
>
> As mentioned previously, we hope to vote on which projects we wish to
> adopt for Project Outreach during the second portion of the March
> PLUG-Dev meeting (in one week's time). Before we can do that, we need
> your nominations. So, think about what projects would benefit from our
> future work. Then reply to this post with your nominations. You may
> nominate as many projects as you wish. If you wish to vote for a
> nomination, you must show up at the March meeting.
>
>
> Thanks for your support,
>
>
> Paul Hahn
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