[Ground-station] "Available Work" section of the website

[Michelle Thompson]

Thank you Anshul. Based on your advice, and a big thumbs up from the
Principal Investigator, I think Trello a good direction to go in. I'll see
what I can do to set it up by Monday!

-Michelle W5NYV




On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 9:53 AM anshul makkar <anshulmakkar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Michelle for bringing this up. That's an important point you have
> raised.
>
> When I joined the team a few months back, there was a lot of
> material/documentation available to ramp up and study, but what was
> missing was a simple well defined task list to work on. It took some
> time for me to understand the current tasks going on in the project
> and to find my piece.
>
> Having a well defined list of challenging problems adds a motivation
> factor and allows the contributor to contribute in much efficient
> manner.
>
> I think, based on our group's style of working where most are
> volunteering, kanban style would be more effective. Trello is leaner
> than github so my vote goes is for it.
>
> Thanks
> Anshul Makkar
>
> Anshul Makkar
> www.justkernel.com
> http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Just-Kernel-3033180
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 9:26 PM Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
> >
> > Better presenting our available work is another aspect we should work on.
> >
> > The "Getting Started" page, described in the previous email, is the
> essentials of becoming a member of the project.
> >
> > However, once one is a member, we need to be able to better communicate
> what work needs to be done. We do not do a bad job here, but we must be
> able to scale up in order to complete the work efficiently and well.
> >
> > We can go back to using something like the "Take This Job" google form
> approach (some of you may remember that).
> >
> > We will be using burn down lists in our sprints.
> >
> > We can implement a kanban style Trello or GitHub Projects board to give
> a snapshot of work. We have a GitHub Projects to-do list up already, but
> not well-populated.
> >
> > What can we do to most help distribute the work to our volunteers
> efficiently and well?
> >
> > -Michelle W5NYV
> >
> >
>
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