[Devel] "About OpenHatch" on the new front page

[Krzysztof Tarnowski]

Maybe we could post them on https://openhatch.org/wiki/Case_studies
with a short note saying that they they represent example user
stories?

On 31 January 2011 15:16, will kahn-greene <willg at bluesock.org> wrote:
> It looks good to me, but I think it could use an example of some of the
> things it's talking about.
>
> "Niamh is working on a project and wants to grow the community of
> contributors for it.  She registers the project with OpenHatch and goes
> through her bug tracker marking several bugs as being "bite-sized".
> OpenHatch automatically pulls in these bugs making them available on the
> OpenHatch site.  Niamh fills out a few questions on the OpenHatch site
> covering things like how a new contributor can begin working on her
> project.  Niamh hadds the "I want to help" button to her project's
> website.  Then Niamh, feeling good about the progress she's made, has a
> sandwich."
>
> "Deidre is finishing up her senior year at college.  She's looking for a
> project she can work on to hone her skills and where she can be a valued
> member of the community.  She creates a profile on OpenHatch and then
> searches for opportunities to help out.  She finds a bite-sized bug for
> Niamh's project that looks like something she can bite into, but she
> doesn't know how to use version control.  So Deidre does a couple of the
> training missions on OpenHatch and reads through the resources provided.
>  Then she notifies Niamh and works on the bug using the instructions on
> the OpenHatch page for the project and the project's website."
>
> Or something like that.
>
>
> On 01/31/2011 08:57 AM, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>> Thanks to the work of Krzysztof on https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue197 ,
>> the front page has slightly changed.
>>
>> In particular, there is a new box called "About OpenHatch" that gives a
>> visitor a summary of the site. What do you think of this text?
>>
>> <quote>
>> Free, open source software loses tons of prospective contributors
>> because it is difficult to learn how and where you can fit in.
>>
>> OpenHatch is an open source community aiming to help newcomers find
>> their way into free software projects.
>> We work toward this goal through this website and in-person outreach
>> events.
>> </quote>
>>
>> It's a project comprised of all of us, so I want to be sure that we all
>> think this is a reasonable way to describe what we do here. What do you
>> think?
>>
>> -- Asheesh.
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