[UbuntuWomen] Find-A-Task Vs. Questionnaire

[Jamesha Fisher]

Passing along Ian's feedback to this discussion since he's not subscribed
to the list:

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From: Ian Weisser <ian-weisser at ubuntu.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [UbuntuWomen] Find-A-Task Vs. Questionnaire
To: ubuntu-women-owner at lists.ubuntu.com


Thanks to everyone for your feedback on Find-a-Task.

And thanks to mikaela for pinging me about this discussion.

I don't know anything about the questionnaire, since I don't subscribe
to this list. Find-A-Task is _not_ intended to appeal to everyone. It's
not the single answer. A questionnaire may be a quite complementary
effort that appeals to very different personality traits.

Find-a-task is also not a finished product. It is intended to be
rewritten and improved...frequently.

It is also intended to be easily expanded when teams get around to
posting their volunteer roles (job vacancies). So far, a single team has
done so - all the rest were made up to flesh out the initial site.
Please, please, please help nudge them to post their roles and build
their landing pages!




On Wed Jan 14 21:59:09 UTC 2015, A. Mani Wrote:

> The questions are not in any logical order
> Can irritate potential contributors.
> We  proceed with the questionnaire.
> Maybe reuse their code.

You're right - the questions are random. They need not be, if someone
wants to suggest a logical order that most people will agree with. I
tried and failed to come up with a useful logical order.

The code is open source, posted on github, and the README has a lot of
documentation. Please reuse it to appeal to more people!




On Thu Jan 15 04:32:16 UTC 2015, Mikaela Suomalainen wrote:

> First it wasn't able to find me anything I could do with helping
> people and then it moved to advocacy. There were two places that could
> have been interesting, Spread Ubuntu and StartUbuntu, but they didn't
> appear to have any kind of place to contact them.

Yes, those roles I made up because those teams/projects have yet to
respond.

The team that did respond (Ubuntu QA) has fantastic wiki pages that
explain the role, how to set up, how to get started, who to contact,
etc. It's a much better handover. I want great handovers like that...but
the initial set of roles, with so little response from the teams, has
some rough patches.

I could certainly use some help to nag those teams...


> More on Find-A-Task itself, after you have gone through all the
> suggestions, it starts repeating itself instead of saying something (I
> cannot think an example) and trying to find some other kind of task
> (jumping from helping people to advocacy for example).

I'm certainly open to what the tool could say to people who have run
through the entire list once. Repeating, to me, seemed a soft way of
saying "That's all I have". Er, it would require a bit of Javascript to
implement, so a patch would be welcome.


Perhaps we need a little more cross-chat: I issued four calls for
testing and input, none of which apparently penetrated here, and nobody
mentioned to me the UW questionnaire concept. I think we can do better
together.

Cheers,

-Ian





Jamesha "JamFish" Fisher

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Svetlana Belkin <belkinsa at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> On 01/14/2015 11:32 PM, Mikaela Suomalainen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:59 PM, A. Mani <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The questions are not in any logical order
>>> Can irritate potential contributors.
>>>
>>
>> I am not sure on the order of questions and I don't remember what the
>> Questionnaire said for me, but I thought I could tell about my
>> experiences with Find-A-Task.
>>
>> First it wasn't able to find me anything I could do with helping
>> people and then it moved to advocacy. There were two places that could
>> have been interesting, Spread Ubuntu and StartUbuntu, but they didn't
>> appear to have any kind of place to contact them. StartUbuntu mentions
>> IRC channel at freenode, #ubuntu-start, but I seem to be there alone
>> (unless ChanServ is counted).
>>
>> More on Find-A-Task itself, after you have gone through all the
>> suggestions, it starts repeating itself instead of saying something (I
>> cannot think an example) and trying to find some other kind of task
>> (jumping from helping people to advocacy for example).
>>
>>
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