Team signup! (for iteration 0)

[alexbayleaf]

Hey everyone, just wanted to get an idea of who's interested in working on what over the next few weeks, for this first iteration, named (in true programmer style) "iteration 0".

Please drop a comment with the following information:

1) team(s)/skill area(s) you're interested in
2) level of experience at that kind of work

The teams are:

- customer (you're a gardener with opinions on how the site should work)
- design (graphic design, UI, CSS, etc)
- communications (writing text for the website, eg. community guidelines)
- coding (backend/frontend, let's mix these together for now)
- sysadmin/devops (including deploying releases of our rails app, etc)

A sample response might be:

I'd like to sign up for:

- design (familiar with HTML/CSS, have worked on a few websites before)
- coding (zero experience but would like to learn frontend/javascript)
- customer (err, I have a garden? and opinions!)

Note that if you sign up now, this is not a long-term commitment! This is just for the next 3 weeks; all you're doing is expressing interest in participating in the very first steps. Also, it's not set in stone... if you want to join in or drop out partway through, that's OK. I'm just trying to get an idea of who's up for this first iteration.

When this first iteration's done, we'll either re-run this signup process, or find a better way of figuring out who's interested for each subsequent iteration. (Quite likely we'll find a better way. I know this is clunky!)

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ETA: signups so far

Customers: skud, inkstone, azurelunatic, japester, ilyena_sylph, Seegwen

Design: commodorified, Seegwen, algeh, aquaprofunda (via other channels)

Communication: skud, amianym, commodorified, japester (primarily technical/project stuff), shadowspar, algeh (available but less interested)

Coding: skud, amianym, shadowspar, seegwen, cesy, algeh

Sysadmin/devops: japester, shadowspar, Seegwen

Comments

[algeh]

- Coding (I don't know Ruby on Rails, but I'd like to learn! My background is mostly in C and in the kind of handwavy pseudo-code used in places like algorithms classes. I went to graduate school in computer science, but left after the first quarter.)

- Design (I don't care much about the graphics being perfect, but I care a lot about accessibility for people with disabilities and other people accessing the site through less-common configurations. I used to do a lot of print layout stuff in the 90s but don't have much online experience with the design process as opposed to discovering that accessibility was not considered during the aforementioned process. Disclosure: I don't use a screenreader or such things to access the internet myself. I do, however, use a computer without Flash installed as my primary computer for unrelated reasons and often run into places where the non-Flash fallback is not graceful.)

- Communications (I can do this, and enjoy working on things involving this, but it's of less interest to me than the other two things. This is what my undergrad degree is in, and then I went on to get a master's in education, which has a lot of skill overlap.)

Note: this weekend (August 10th-12th) and next weekend (August 17th-19th) I will be without computer access. I'll be around on weekdays, including the week in the middle.