[csw-maintainers] Thematics month proposal

[Sebastian Kayser]

William Bonnet wrote:
>> one of the biggest "challenges" about a volunteer
>> organisation, is that you cant just write up a project agenda, and then
>> assign people to do it. You need... volunteers!
>>   
> That's right ! I fully agree
> .
> In order to recruit volunteers we first have to set up the project. As 
> you wrote below it comes through writing wiki page, and documentation 
> and many thing else. Gathering volunteers also requires to be 
> attractive. Being attractive often means to start the work on the 
> project and to communicate about this until you reach a kind of 
> "critical mass". It's not gonna be a easy thing, but i believe it is 
> worth to try :)
> 
> It will help to create the buzz around, it will help focusing some 
> effort on mutual goal, and ... many things :)

I like Williams ideas very much, especially the mutual goal part. Right
now people are moving the project forward by producing bugfixed and
updated packages. That's great, but not the whole story. Williams ideas
try to capture all the other areas where work can be done to move the
project forward.

Given that these ideas are communicated, discussed, and packaged in
doable "let's first do this and then move on to the next one" items, the
right people can get together to make things happen in a joint effort.
IMHO it's worth giving it a go.

Sebastian