Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Want to help out? Read on....

We are looking for help with the development of the Coalevo
Platform!

1) Why should/would I want to help with Coalevo?
aka What is in it for me (ROI)?

Possibility to learn new things and increase your experience.
It's not a promise, but commonly more experience
will reflect in your "value" and income in the long run.

Here some related Cali Dude writeup with some related thoughts
"Top 10 Reasons To Work On Open Source":
http://karanet.at/r/7q0

2) Are there ideas of what could be done?

Proposals & Ideas can be found here:
http://www.coalevo.net/confluence/x/CQ

Here some specific ideas that you could get started with
or help us to get started with.

Statistics & Monitoring:
http://www.coalevo.net/confluence/x/DQBU

Atom Publishing Protocol Server:
http://www.coalevo.net/confluence/x/AgAm

Atom Publishing Workspace for Discussion Service:
http://www.coalevo.net/confluence/x/FQBU

IRC Group Messaging Server:
http://www.coalevo.net/confluence/x/BYAi

KeyPhrase Extraction:
http://www.coalevo.net/confluence/x/AoA5

3) Can I work on my own ideas?

SURE!!!

You may also provide ideas and see if somebody catches
fire on it and helps you out.
Just write something up adding it to Proposals & Ideas
that can be found here:
http://www.coalevo.net/confluence/x/CQ

4) Will you support collaborative development?

SURE!!!

a) Social side:
We will try to mentor newcomers and will provide them
with exposure and help to move along.

b) Tool side:

We have a top-notch set of online tools for collaborative
development: issues, wiki, VCS and code browsing, everthing
is available and integrated.
If required, we can upgrade and extend the possibilities.