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

[Nicholas Skaggs]

On 09/06/2015 09:18 PM, Ian Weisser 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.
I'll try and keep doing the same Ian. It's worth sharing. For those CC 
members that read this, perhaps you can include this in your meetups 
with individual teams to encourage them to use outreach tools, including 
Find-A-Task?

Also, I would encourage sessions at the next UOS to point out it's 
potential and use. Again, this is but a tool in the toolbelt for our 
smaller ubuntu teams. Making sure they know how to use it and it's easy 
to do so is also part of ensuring adoption and success.
> 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.
I wouldn't call it a failure. After all the idea was conceived, 
launched, and revised. It succeeded insomuch that it now has a prominent 
home on community.u.c. While I admire and encourage taking a hard look 
at things and never settling, I also wouldn't encourage you to disparage 
your work like this. If it helps even 1 person find there place within 
the ubuntu community, would you call it failure? Would it have been 
worth it for you? I hope so.

Let's continue to dream big and think of each little win like this as 
part of the on-going solution.

Cheers,
Nicholas