Big picture (Feb 2011): Difference between revisions

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=== Actionable: Help people join 'Task Forces' to make broad changes to projects ===
 
I'm imagining that there's a list of "groups" within the site. Anyone can form a group and invite people to it. Your group ''must'' name some achievable goal for its first month of existence; if it does not, the system forcefully disbands the group. (In order to stick around, your group has to provide a link to evidence that it achieved its goal. Someone from the forum or IRC has to mark the task force's goal as succeeded.) The group can only stay together for four months total; after that, its membership and achievements are frozen as a relic of the past.
 
Some groups I would like to see:
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* The "Write a new OpenHatch training mission" task force
* The "Reach out to university students to teach them about open source" task force
 
(Why have them require
 
=== Rambling: Most projects don't want to put in the time to encourage participation; how can we help projects that do want new contributors highlight that? ===
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