[Devel] Discussion between me and dhaun (Dirk) from Geeklog

[Krzysztof Tarnowski]

Thanks, Asheesh!

The feedback is fantastic. I think that it is now pretty clear what we
should aim to improve in February - mentor's experience.

On 7 February 2011 16:32, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> dhaun is Dirk from Geeklog, the one whose happy story I posted to the list a
> few days ago. I found him by email and asked him some questions. Here's what
> I got back from him.
>
> (-:,
>
> -- Asheesh.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 04:40:12
> From: Dirk Haun
> To: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>
> Subject: Re: Question about OpenHatch and Geeklog
>
> Hey Asheesh,
>
>> We're working on getting a sense of where the website helps people, and
>> how it can be more useful. We're having a meeting at 4 PM US/Eastern today
>> (soon!) on IRC:
>> http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/devel/2011-February/001747.html --
>> we're going to talk about what we should work on for the next month. (I'm
>> paulproteus on IRC.)
>
> Sorry, I was at FOSDEM over the weekend and couldn't hang out on IRC. I do
> usually lurk in #openhatch. My nick is dhaun.
>
>
>> I'm one of the people who works on OpenHatch. I noticed that you mentioned
>> at http://www.geeklog.net that Rouslan found a way to contribute to Geeklog
>> from our website.
>>
>> That's super cool! Can you tell me anything more about his experience, or
>> or maybe your own in putting up the tasks on the site?
>
> Thanks for asking. There are actually a few things about OpenHatch that I
> think could be improved.
>
> The main issue, IMO, is that things are somewhat disconnected. For example,
> I'm registered as a contributor for Geeklog and also offered to mentor. So
> when people indicate that they want to help, I think there should be a way
> for me to easily contact them. Maybe even send me an email automatically.
>
> The way things are now, I have to visit openhatch.org regularly to find out
> if somebody's interested in helping out. Okay, so I get a list of people.
> Then what? There should be an easy way to contact these people. Yes, I can
> email them. But I'd prefer a web form that already provides some context,
> e.g. "I'm contacting you since you indicated on OpenHatch that you want to
> help Geeklog", etc. Ideally, people should be able to pick one or more of
> the listed tasks when they say that they want to help. I, as a potential
> mentor, should then be able to see that list and it should also be included
> when I email them.
>
> In other words: Right now, OpenHatch provides 3 lists: Tasks, mentors +
> contributors, and potential helpers. But to make a connection between the 3
> takes too much additional effort. I think this could be made to be much
> easier. I don't insist that what I described above is the ideal workflow.
> But somehow, it should require less work to get potential helpers and
> mentors together. All the pieces are there, it's the connection between them
> that's missing, IMHO.
>
> bye, Dirk
>
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Krzysztof Tarnowski.
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