[OSM-talk] growing the volunteer base

[Etienne]

On 9/20/06, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
> I had a chat with tom steinberg of http://www.mysociety.org/ last night.
>
> He was very much of the opinion that wiki should be www and www should
> be edit, and also sung the praises of their volunteer button.


+1 Agree strongly.  There are some proposals for a new improved front page.
We can, and we should, switch wiki. and www. immediately.



If you go to http://www.mysociety.org/ and hit 'volunteer' and play
> around you'll see what I mean. It's a nice pretty thing atop their bug
> tracking system. It asigns someone to a task and alerts the developers.
> It suggests to the new volunteer that they join a mailing list and get
> more involved. He said it had been a big boost to their volunteer
> numbers.
>
> Could something similar work for us? Would someone like to hack
> something like it on top of trac?
>
> have fun,
>
> SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
>
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