Posted by greggles on March 29, 2011 at 11:57pm
Want to help add features to a site visited by hundreds of thousands of people a month? Want to enable enhanced collaboration among Drupal's contributors? Want to be mentored by a trifecta of zany Drupalistas Josh Koenig, Greg Knaddison and Moshe Weitzman?
Submit an application to work on Groups.Drupal.org. Some potential tasks for the summer:
- Improving display of metrics from around the site. Help people know which groups are active and which aren't. Help visitors learn which other groups they might want to join.
- Improve messaging/notifications - There are several bugs here that are painful for users of the site. Learning the inner workings of these tools is highly valuable as they are used on thousands of Drupal sites.
- Improve mapping capabilities - Find groups, events, jobs "near me"
- Improve our spam fighting capabilities with better tools for reporting and moderation
- Create integration with external job vendors in ways that respect community norms and can make money for the Drupal Association (which in turn helps fund this site)
- Brainstorm and implement other forms of user-relevant advertising systems
- Perform a usability review now and then propose/code fixes
- And many more things...
Comments
GSoC 2012
Hey,
Thanks Greggles to post this Idea. I would love to drop a application for it. This will be my pleasure if I would do some work for Drupal.org .
crazyrohila
#Ubuntu, #Drupal
GSoC 2012
Is this applicable for this year too ?
crazyrohila
#Ubuntu, #Drupal
Sorry for the late reply. I
Sorry for the late reply. I think this could be applicable, but you'd have to come up with ideas on the specific tasks. Let your own interests drive you there but also make sure that they match with the community vision for what groups.drupal.org should become.
I'll ping the other g.d.o maintainers to confirm they like this idea, but assume they do until told otherwise.
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One other idea is to
One other idea is to implement 'reply via email'. The authentication issues are gnarly but the payoff is large.
For notifications, I'd love for someone to write an upgrade path from Notifications to OG_classic