Posted by ceardach on June 18, 2009 at 3:16pm
So it sounds as though getting together for IRC or Skype meetings more often will be beneficial. What is your schedule like? When are your best days, and when are your worst days? What time period are you most available and less available?
What is your availability for the next month? Roughly how many hours a week are you available? What do you think your availability is for the rest of the summer?
And while we're at it, mention your speciality: designer, themer, developer, etc.
If you have any interest at all in this project, then respond! Knowing a rough head count will greatly help in planning!
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My availability
Schedule:
* Timezone: EST
* Best: Day, evening and late night. Weekdays or weekends.
* Worst: Early morning. Alternating Tuesday and Wednesday evenings (late night OK).
* This month: Next two weeks are busy, but beginning of July is free
* Rest of summer: No plans except for small projects. May go on vacation for a week.
* Weekly availability: 4-16 hrs (more possible if I can keep my other-projects load low)
Skillset:
* HTML/CSS
* Theme layer
* Little jQuery
* Little graphic design
* Moderate programming
* System administration
* Bug triage
* Quality assurance
I'm brand new getting
I'm brand new getting involved with this, but I definitely want to do what I can to help. I'm busy, but flexible.
Skillset:
I'm comfortable with graphic design & theming so:
Availability
Schedule:
* Time zone: CT
* Best: Afternoons and evenings, weekdays or weekends.
* Worst: Weekday mornings are typically busy. Unfortunately, that's also the best time to include our European friends.
* All summer: No vacations scheduled
* Weekly availability: 4-6 hours
Skillset:
* Design (Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.)
* Theming (anything theme-layer)
* Programming/development (custom modules, "deep theming," etc.
Perhaps a tool like Doodle would be useful for scheduling meetings? That's what the docs team uses.
Todd Ross Nienkerk
Co-founder, Four Kitchens | IRC: toddross
Todd Ross Nienkerk
Digital Strategist and Partner
Four Kitchens: Big ideas for the web
IRC: toddross
I tried out Doodle. Pretty
I tried out Doodle. Pretty neat.
Does something like this work? http://doodle.com/x45qze8cw2wh4kwt
Do the timezones change depending upon where you are? Since you're in CT, the first option shouldn't be 1AM.
I also just did 14-22GMT and 4-5GMT. But we could put up all 24 hours and have people pick whatever is good for them across the clock.
Time zone isn't changing
The time zone isn't changing. Did you click the "enable time-zone support" link when you made the Doodle? I've attached a screenshot.
Todd Ross Nienkerk
Co-founder, Four Kitchens | IRC: toddross
Todd Ross Nienkerk
Digital Strategist and Partner
Four Kitchens: Big ideas for the web
IRC: toddross
Yup :/ I did it twice just
Yup :/ I did it twice just to ensure I really really really did click on that.
Has timezones worked for the other times you used Doodle?
Schedule: * Time zone: CET
Schedule:
* Time zone: CET (GMT+2)
* Best: Evenings, weekdays or weekends.
* Worst: Weekday mornings / lunch.
* All summer: No vacations scheduled
* Weekly availability: 4 hours
Skillset:
* General Programming/development
* Integration with Apache Solr
* Performance evaluation / optimization
* Administration of the staging websites
* Looking over Todd's shoulders and copying his answers.
Damien Tournoud
http://drupalfr.org
Damien Tournoud
Schedule: * Timezone: EST *
Schedule:
* Timezone: EST
* Best: Day or evening, weekdays or weekends.
* Worst: Tuesday evenings and sometimes Thursday evenings
* This month: Free
* Rest of summer: Short breaks away possible but nothing confirmed
* Weekly availability: 5-10 hrs
Skillset:
* Quality Assurance (functionality, accessibility, user interface, etc)
* Selenium IDE
* Usability
* Proofreading
* Content management
* HTML/CSS (but totally new for Drupal so I am not recommending I start theming now!)
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http://about.me/lisarex
Schedule: * Timezone: EST *
Schedule:
* Time zone: EST
* Best: Mornings, afternoons and evenings, weekdays or weekends.
* Worst: Every other weekend.
* All summer: Aug. 22 - Sept 6 (for DrupalCon + Vacation)
* Weekly availability: 6+ hours
Skillset:
* Design (Photoshop)
* Theming
* Mid-level jQuery/JavaScript
* Mid-level PHP
* HTML/CSS
* Skilled Debugger
My Availability
Schedule:
* Time zone: MNT
* Best: evenings, weekdays or weekends.
* Worst: during the 9-5.
* Weekly availability: 6+ hours
Skillset:
* Design (Adobe fam as well as UI and IA)
* Theming Hurricane
* jQuery/JavaScript - Green Horn
* PHP - Green Horn
* (X)HTML/CSS - Master
* Debugger
I am most interested in revamping the API.DRUPAL.ORG section of the site. This area needs a structural overhaul for making information easier to get at, for the people interested in using Drupal. I am quite good at taking existing design guides and generating layouts that fit the artistic qualities and rule that have been laid out.
-- Zach (attack) Meyer
Hi, I maintain
Hi, I maintain api.drupal.org. I initially got involved to do design improvements, but some underlying code issues need to be handled first. If you want to tackle specific pages, go ahead and post mocks, or even implementation, to the issue queue, http://drupal.org/project/issues/6018?text=&status=Open&priorities=All&c....
Some new work that is needed is pages for PHP objects, which will get parsed real soon now, http://drupal.org/node/300031. After that, modules will be added to the site, so a new level of navigation is needed.
For a complete design process potentially affecting every page, we should start by having a meeting.
In general, anything that gets developers to what they need faster is good. Google Analytics is running for some basic measurements. I am particularly interested in better browsing, search, and doing interesting with all of contrib parsed and in a database.
And there is a sparsely used
And there is a sparsely used group at http://groups.drupal.org/apidrupalorg-and-api-module. Not much is going on there now, but it does have 60+ members. It might be the best place for high-level discussions.
some follow up
Hey Neil,
I would be interested in having a discussion with you about this perhaps through IRC or skype or perhaps organizing some sort of group chat for these things. Would that be a suitable format for working on this?
-- Zach (attack) Meyer
I'm unavailable today, but
I'm unavailable today, but find me in #drupal-dev, #drupal-infrastructure, or #drupal-redesign tomorrow or another day. My IRC name is drumm and I'm in PDT.