(Originally posted to my DotNetNuke.com Blog) I am putting out a new call for developers for the News project. Anyone interested in helping out should email me at jmcwilliam@flatburger.com. Any information you could provide about yourself would be very helpful. Specifically, noting things like your experience, how much time you can contribute to the project, and what you would like to do to help would be useful. I am attempting to structure the project into several small pieces that can be developed separately. As a result of this, I hope to allow people to help without having to commit to a large amount of time. Developers are not the only people we need. Anyone interested in helping with any of the following should please contact me. Here are some additional ways that people may be able to help:
- Research – people to figure out comparative / competitive products and document their functionality to help figure out what functionality to implement next.
- Analysis – Functionality, UI / UX and Technical Analysis are all important aspects of the project.
- Development – Development will be broken into small pieces to allow many to contribute.
- Localization – I plan to come up with localization files in English for this module early in the development process and try to seek help from people to localize these files into other languages.
- Documentation – Help, FAQs, Tutorials, etc. – all important aspects of a project.
- QA – Need help testing the module. Beta testers, regression testers, the more testing the better.
- Support – People willing to commit to monitoring support forums and/or providing additional support for modules during certain times.
- Marketing – People charged with the task of using guerilla marketing techniques to spread the word about this module. Selling this functionality of this module in competing spaces can help to sell people on DNN as a whole.
Every product should have its own team focusing on furthering development of all aspects of the product. In order for this to work, we need volunteers, so please, volunteer. No contribution is too little.
