Improving the design of the Volunteer Guidance Tool

[Ian Weisser]

Formerly: Call for testing: Ubuntu community volunteer board [UPDATE 1]


On Tue Nov 18 19:16:05 UTC 2014, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:

> Might I suggest Ubuntu forking and skinning with Ubuntu branding this:
> https://github.com/jdm/asknot


On Fri Dec 19 17:51:12 UTC 2014, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:

> The Ubuntu Women project is working on a questionnaire adapted from
> one the Italian LoCo uses[1] to help contributors find their way and
> their intention was always to work with the community website folks to
> integrate it into that site.

>[1] http://www.ubuntu-it.org/comunita/orientamento


On Fri Dec 19 17:58:09 UTC 2014, Svetlana Belkin wrote:

> Adding this link also: 
>
http://blog.ubuntu-women.org/2014/08/calling-for-testers-for-orientation-quiz/


Well, this is wonderful!
Now we have two tools that we can pull the best featured from!

After looking them over a bit, the Italian solution is the hands-down
design winner. Clean, smooth transitions, lots of hard format problems
all solved. Definitely a lot to get from it.

The Italian solution also raises up front the important issue of English
language ability.

Asknot has built-in internationalization (I plan to merely hide it for
now, but not remove it. Someday community.ubuntu.com may need to be in
more languages).

The decision logic is different, an interesting comparison: The Italian
solution is prescriptive and apparently matrix-based: You only see the
result after answering four questions about skills and availability.
Asknot uses a messier (but more friendly) branching browsing method. You
see the direction you are headed at all times, and it follows interests
instead of skills.

Right now, I'm leaning toward the AskNot solution for decision logic. I
think it will appear to a wider audience, allow more team roles to be
advertised, and present a more open and welcoming message.

I'll see if I can knock together a useful sample of the best of both
soon.

Cheers,

Ian