Creating structure around the Kata website and program
The following are open issues and priorities for the Drupal Kata website and program. Let's continue to work through these and create a foundation for a sustainable program.
http://drupalkata.com/drupalkata/node/359
Conference Call: 1/14/10
Starting a draft - Gus, would you please enable WYSIWYG or (my fave) TinyTinyMCE so I don't have to code?
New home @ Pronovix - Aegir / Amazon EC2 forthcoming
The Kata site is now happily hosted by Pronovix. As previously noted, integration with Spezzle, Aegir, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and other knowledge management features are in the works.
Thanks to Kristof and the Pronovix team, we'll be able to teach, design, develop, demo, and deploy. The smallcore community education campaign has already commenced!
GSoC Mentoring Manual provides an amazing template!
I've been following Leslie Hawthorn tweeting about their GSoC Mentoring Manual sprint. With a great deal of inspiration coming from that program, having a manual we can borrow from and improve on would be pretty great. Well... Leslie tweeted back noting the manual will be CC-3.0-BY licensed!
Project, Task, and Sprint Managers - Our biggest need?
Based on my experiences (including bootstrapping this program), finding project, task, and sprint managers is incredibly difficult. Building and crowdfunding actual projects means that we can pay project managers and mentors for their time. That said, it should be easy to find a group of available leaders who can commit 5-10 hours/wk to shape a project management track and mentor priority projects and tasks.
Right!?!
Free hosting via Acquia?
Assuming we'll soon have non-profit status, free hosting w/ Acquia seems like a good option for the Drupal Dojo and potentially others such as Drupal Kata and DrupalMedia.org. Thoughts?
http://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-hosting/free-acquia-hosting