Call for Volunteers
Oct 17, 2008 by Keith Lauchlan
During the discussions at this years' GeekMoot, one recurring item that came up was the issue of resources -- specifically the need for people. The good news is that while we were webcasting, we had a few people step up to the plate and offer to help out which was great but we're still on the lookout.
I think a lot of us on the developer team take it for granted that we welcome volunteers. However,
we thought we'd make a formal announcement to that effect.
So ... if there's something that you want to improve, something that bugs you and that you can fix, please jump in and do it! To be effective, you should coordinate with us. Generally, the best way to do that is join us in the IRC Channel (also accessible via the Forum. For even more information, take a look at the IRC Support Page.
If you know you want to help, but don't know what needs doing, we're always looking for people to help on:
- Documentation
- Tutorials
- How-Tos
- Screencasts / demos - show people how to solve common problems, or show the clever ways you accomplished something cool on your site
- Design
- Themes (both user-facing and admin)
- Logos and promotional items, for T-Shirts, mugs, etc.
- UI / interface designs - got ideas for an easy way to improve usability in modules, the admin, or the default templates?
- Powerpoint or other marketing materials to use to demonstrate or promote CMSMS (e.g., to conferences or users groups)
- Coding
- Bug Fixes - send your patches to the forge!
- Features - have you added functionality? Got ideas you'd like to implement?
- Modules - writing modules is fun, useful, and oh-so-profitable! Here's your chance to get in on the action.
- Demos - are you willing to set up a Virtual Appliance demo? A bootable demo CD image? Some other cool way of showing off CMSMS?
- Core/2.0 - are you a database optimization expert? A top notch coder? Here's your chance to help us make this the best system ever.
- Other Stuff
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7 Responses to "Call for Volunteers"
http://www.technifutur.be
On: Oct 17, 2008, Cédric Franquet said:
Hi everybody,
As a training and advice center in Belgium, Technifutur uses to give information issues to companies interested in a website solution.
This means a more or less 3 hours introduction to CMS in general (what to be careful of when choosing, which spec are necessary for a good CMS,...) and a demo of CMSMadeSimple.
After that, more than 3/4 of the audience aare planned to follow a one day web lab for comprehending, installing , managing and finally using CMSMS.
As we offer a "maintenance plan" after each training followed in our center, the people who want to have some explanation or even procedures give phone calls to me.
I'm working on the new tutorial I used before version 1.2.3 (for updated snapshot of admin part,...) and I'll send it to you.
I also translated some part of stylesheet comments in french so that CMSMS manager can understand and tune a little their site.
And more and more, they want more and the first impression is "WOAAAW, it is so easy" The most impressive spec is themes import and the quickness of aplication.
So, to be short, I'd like to collaborate more deeply overall in translation from english to french, but I'll check the forum and IRC.
One last thing, some bigger companies cry ans shout loudly for a multilingual version (public and admin part) and not specially having the same structure in all languages!!! but I didn't get nowhere when triying to install it.
Be strong, Stay long: A great product deserves support, you have mine.
http://www.klemtoon.org
On: Oct 21, 2008, David De Beukelaer said:
Maybe it would be an idea to make a list with CMSMS designed sites (not forum based) were people can vote for the best design. Admitting implies the contribution to the template section. The visitor will have to redesign te website and find the css in the source code, but the amount of submissions might be higher. less work for the authentic designer, whom must stay mentioned, and a much larger contribution to the 'template-section'.
'Second hand'- can always put the template into XMl.
best regards,
www.klemtoon.org
http://www.emekarajis.org
On: Oct 25, 2008, Emeka said:
Hey guys, I am a user interface developer for GSI Interactive. I would love the opportunity to help out with any design elements. Even developing out of the box themes. Let me know how I can help. It would be my honor.
http://timoxley.com
On: Oct 31, 2008, Tim Oxley said:
What about an official "ToDo" list for programming tasks (eg modules, fixes, etc) ranked by potential difficulty? Useful for people wanting to get their feet wet...
http://www.labtechsoft.com
On: Nov 4, 2008, Steve Livingston said:
I would be extremely interested in revamping the user interface as well as working on the core. I am very experienced in PHP and enterprise level programming. I anticipate to be Zend PHP certified in about 20 days as well. I have used CMS Made Simple for many sites, and of course the main thing that has kept me using CMS Made Simple is just how easy it is to get up and running. However, that simplicity shouldn't keep it from being powerful -- this system could easily be created for enterprise level systems.
http://360digitalmedia.com
On: Nov 13, 2008, Beverly Mattox (technista) said:
I have been looking for a simpler CMS solution than some of the fee-based and open source communities offer because my target market is for non-tech oriented consumers. After trying out numerous options, I stumbled upon CMSMS a couple of weeks ago- and I am hooked! I installed in on my server so that my web clients can update their own content. One client asked me if he could upload video files and that led me to create an entire series of tutorials geared towards client use of this system. The ten tutorials are illustrated with screenshots and can be found here:
Tutorials: http://360digitalmedia.com/help/tutorials/
If any are interested, I can make these available (in a more generic form) to the community as my thanks for a truly marvelous product.
Many thanks to all contributors,
technista
http://ww.inyerface.com
On: Dec 4, 2008, Mitch Proulx (inyerface.com) said:
I'm with Tim Oxley on this one...
Many folks like me who have dollars to put forth in development may not know what the heck IRC is or even Forge so it's not easy to add to the core. I am the CEO of the company and have a lot of interest in CMS Made Simple - however things need to be simplified.
CMS Made Simple... the whole idea is to be simple. So why are we tracking projects the same way as other more complicated CMS applicatinos out there?
Again Tim Oxley has a good idea. Have a to-do list and let people like me take them on and give it an ETA. This would be most effective... and I'm going based on corporate experience.
And if there are developers out there who want to develoop but also want money... get in touch with me.
