Projects Needing Volunteer Developers

Hundreds of communities trading with complementary currencies need this!

Two years ago, working with the UK Coordinator for LETS I prototyped an architecture to support these communities with all their variants. Right now I have time to port it to Drupal which is the obvious platform. Progress is slow because I'm learning on the job, so this project needs mentoring.

We are seeking a developer to assist us with creating a new or re-purposing an existing dynamic research repository that can capture various case studies, articles, websites and other semantic information from a multi- member research team. Our focus is green building and sustainability to which we use this research content to populate our online learning portal, develop curriculum and increase our consulting knowledge.

Some of the repository attributes would include:

1. Drupal based or Drupal friendly alternative (MySQL)

Job Description: Drupal Config Specialist/Themer

The Drupal configuration specialist will have a solid understanding of the Drupal Content Management Framework. Listening to our needs you will gather a collection of modules that provide a best fit, and you will work with our developers to provide any customizations that are required. You live online, you thrive in #drupal-support and #drupal-themes. You Blog, Skype, Twitter and Pownce your way through the day to get your points across.

Essential skills.
• General understanding of Drupal 5x core and contrib

Dear Drupalers,

This is a call to persons with a comprehensive understanding of what is possible in Drupal (particularly via contributed modules) — in other words, Drupal consultants or enthusiasts.

I am in need of general volunteers able to discuss (preferably via Skype) and suggest solutions for various aspects of the implementation of the following (see below) — even just to provide general one-on-one guidance on the nature of certain modules (CCK, CiviCRM, Views, etc.) and their various functions or possibilities.

Dear Drupal users,

This is a call to accomplished, high-level themers.

I am in the process of developing a soon-to-be-launched international initiative aimed at prosecuting the United States, its leaders and allies, on charges of the crime of genocide in Iraq. I need significant volunteer resources in all aspects of Drupal, but in particular in theming and aesthetics.

Dear Drupal users,

I am looking for short, medium and long-term programming / development assistance for an international initiative soon-to-be-launched aimed at prosecuting the United States, its leaders and allies, on charges of the crime of genocide in Iraq.

The new initiative is currently being built offline. It already needs significant volunteer resources, particularly in establishing capacity to provide content in Arabic and Spanish as well as English. There are also significant security considerations that need expert input.

My name is Matthew Pare and I'm a Co-Chair for the "Community and Core" track for Drupalcon Boston 2008. Over the last couple of weeks we have been planning and brainstorming to make Drupalcon Boston 2008 the best Drupalcon to date! One of our recommended track session topics is "Community: Role of the Contributor" and since your viewing this post on the Projects Needing Volunteer Developers group I thought you would be excellent candidates for submitting sessions on the topic.

We are in the process or reorganizing the website for Arthur Blessitt. He has walked around the world carrying a cross to spread the Gospel.

We are in porting over a site with pages numbering a thousand plus. We would appreciate volunteers would be willing to contribute time to add content and create pages.

Please contact kathy@newmediadenver.com if you are interested or would like more information.

Thanks!
Kathy

Here's what has to happen before a 5.x-1.0 official release can be made for the DBA (Database administration) module:

I am working on launching a website that will help professionals and employers learn about and adopt non-traditional work arrangements such as part-time, flex time and job-sharing. www.CareersInCommon.com will launch this fall with a content hub/"Learning Center;" with the long-term goal of adding a job board.

You might be interested in an experimental platform based on Drupal 5.1 that we are making for small linguistic entities. Basically it delivers the capability of speaking, along with reading, by introducing an added MP3 vocal file to all nodes and comments.

The english version is at http://eng.i-iter.org a first running example in the piemontese language is at http://pms.i-iter.org

We look for volunteer developers and translators to localize the platform into other languages, so feel free to add requests to join the alpha stage. Bear in mind that alpha really means alpha...

I'm glad Darren Oh has got a solid proposal for this group. I would suggest that the most needed aspect of a Drupal marketplace would be a way for individual Drupal users and Drupal shops – especially smaller shops – to pool resources to fund specific module development.

User dahacouk called for more structure and a funding model to make the quality of contributed modules the best they can be.

To quote from my endorsement and proposal:

The project* collection of modules (Project, Project issue tracking, and CVS integration) is the largest set of code running on drupal.org besides Drupal core. They are the key tools that power all Drupal development, including the Drupal issue queue and Drupal release system. Because of the huge user base, high visibility, complex requirements and feature requests, and size and scope of the existing code base (and issue queues) there is a ton of work to be done. This wiki page is how I (dww, the primary maintainer of project*) will try to communicate the best ways for other people to get involved in helping. One of the ways to help is to improve this list, so please add your own ideas here.

This is an informal list of projects needing volunteer developers. To be clear, this group is for Drupal maintainers/developers who would like volunteer help from the Drupal community in order to complete a Drupal core or Drupal contributed module. This group is not for folks desiring help with their web sites.

In order to periodically update the status of Projects Needing Volunteer Developers, please refer to the table which is an informal list by the respective project maintainers/developers. ANY maintainer/developer can easily make updates to a project's table with a few clicks because the table exists on a wiki page!

If you maintain a project with a reverse bounty and have knowledge on any of the info listed in the table for your respective project, please add your comment to Projects Needing Financing so that it can be included there instead of here since this is more along the lines of code contribution/collaboration.

this is an idea i've been thinking about. posting it here so other folks can add to it, provide feedback, etc.

Summary

we could really use an install profile that setup a test site similarly to how drupal.org is configured (especially the project* modules and CVS integration). obviously, it wouldn't have the bluebeach theme, but otherwise, it would look fairly similar to d.o in terms of structure, content, permissions, etc.

this would greatly help people who wanted to reproduce bugs and test patches for the project* family of modules, which is something we desperately need more of.