Is Find-A-Task Broken? How can we fix it?

Aaron Honeycutt honeycuttaaron3 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 01:41:55 UTC 2015


I think it should be pointed out on the Community Q&A, and I'll try to put
it out there more at the LoCo events that I put together.

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Ian Weisser <ian-weisser at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 16:25 -0400, Michael Hall wrote:
> > For a while the Find-A-Task page was buried several levels down in the
> > navigation, so it's likely that potential contributors couldn't even
> > find it. Earlier this month I put a button link to it on the frontpage
> > of community.ubuntu.com so hopefully it gets a little more use now.
>
> I plan to post monthly reminders of Find-A-Task on Planet and G+
> reminders for the remainder of 2015. Other suggestions for generating
> interest are always welcome.
>
> Suggestion: Could we add an agenda item to the November 2015 UOS
> Community Roundtable? An evaluation of Find-A-Task's effectiveness, and
> suggestions for improvement would be a worthwhile few minutes of
> discussion.
>
> My perspective: Find-A-Task seems rather a failure today. I think we
> should continue to try to energize it into usefulness. But if it's still
> a failure in, say, February 2016, I propose shutting it down and trying
> something else to recruit new participants and contributors to the
> Ubuntu communities.
>
> Defining that 'something else' seems an appropriate discussion *before*
> UOS.
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