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Please check the status of this specification in Launchpad before editing it. If it is Approved, contact the Assignee or another knowledgeable person before making changes.

Summary

It's not easy for newcomers to find an overview of roles they can do. All teams do have listed things on their own wiki page, but it's scattered and specific roles are usually discussed at mailists. A website where team administrators can post roles within their team would open the community more and create a central place to look. Mentors can be assigned to roles to guide newcomers into the wonderful world of the Ubuntu Community. This website allows team administrators to post both static(e.g. Bug Triaging, MOTU) and dynamic(e.g. maintainer of package X) jobs, categorized by team, but supporting tags. Only roles within the Ubuntu Community are allowed.

Access

Of course not everyone are allowed to place items at the website. The current suggestion is to allow only team administrators of teams accepted by the wanted site crew to post jobs. Only teams listed in a manually maintained file(editable by a web interface) are allowed to post, to prevent teams like Ubuntu Smokers or SchoolTool Owners to post jobs. FIXME: There needs to be checked if Launchpad allows an OpenID client to read the teams the logging in user is a member of and his/her roles within those teams.

Mentoring

A good suggestion made at Brainstorm is adding support for mentoring. Team administrators can assign a person as mentor by using his/her Launchpad username. FIXME: Needs some more discussion.

Applications

If someone would like to apply for a role (s)he can press a button near the role description when (s)he's logged in. This would show a screen with some questions created by the poster of the role. After the questions are answered the applicant is added to a public list. The team administrator(s) can approve or disapprove applicants or ask for more information. The applicants will get a mail when their status is changed. After someone's approved the dynamic roles will be closed(FIXME: Should they be kept?) and the mentor assigned to a role will get a mail.

Managing

Team administrators get a nice panel where they can manage the advertisements. They can close advertisements and add new.

Categorizing

Every team gets a category the moment they place their first role. Tags can also be assigned. FIXME: Needs more discussion.

Concerns

  • A concern is that it can splinter communication. Communication about vacancies and possibilities to become active in a team takes usually place in mailist or at the Ubuntu Wiki. When it would suddenly be moved to a separate website team members could be confused and feel left out.
    • Solution 1: When a new role is created the mailist of the team should be notified. When someone applies the mailist is also notified.
      • FIXME: How should the mailist be determined?
  • It should be very clear that someone can have more than one roles.
    • Solution 1: If the right names are used this shouldn't be that much of a problem. Role seems the best name.

Links

There has already been some discussion about this: [http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9810/] [http://www.qense.nl/posts/114] [http://www.qense.nl/posts/ubuntu-wanted-site-ii]

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