Re: [Gramps-devel] Volunteer Opportunities?

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Combs, Matthew Christopher
<mc...@ui...> wrote:
> My name is Matthew Combs and I am a graduate student in Computer Science at
> the University of Illinois at Springfield (in the USA).  As part of my
> Software Engineering class, I have an assignment to volunteer to help with
> an open-source project.
>
> I browsed through Sourceforge.net and found your software.  I am an avid
> genealogist with a special interest in surnames.  The GRAMPS software seemed
> like it would suit me well.  The requirements of the assignment indicate
> that I am to not do any coding of software.  This would allow me to do
> installation scripts, testing, documentation, etc.
>
> Do you think your group could use a volunteer to assist you?  I can provide
> additional details about my technical and genealogy background if you like.
> I am the author of Surname Suggestion List and Surname Findit.
>
> If you could get back to me soon, that would be greatly appreciated.  I have
> a deadline of Wednesday to let my professor know which project I am going to
> volunteer for.
>
> If this is not the correct list to post this request to, please accept my
> apologies in advance.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt Combs

Hi, Matt!

I'm just one of the developers, but let me welcome you to Gramps! I'm
sure that we'd love to have additional eyes looking over, and
additional brains thinking about making the project better.

Now is a good time for such a project as you propose... we are about
halfway through making changes for the next major version, version 3.3
which we plan on releasing in March of 2011. That is, we've done some
new development, so we have new stuff to write up, test, and install.
We have had some ideas for a much simplified installer for some
time... perhaps using setup, easy_install, etc. But not sure if that
goes beyond your "no coding" constraints. We also are testing some new
user interfaces, which we think will be an excellent enhancement for
the next version.

In short, we'd be glad to work with you in whatever fashion we can!

-Doug