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Description
There's currently no way to easily see a list of "help wanted" tasks across all projects. Two use cases come to mind:
- [Primary] As a new or returning volunteer, I'd like to see a scannable list of all the tasks I might be able to complete based on my skills and experience at a glance.
- [Secondary] As a brigade organizer, I'd like to see what tasks different projects need help with and be able to tell at a glance if there are trends across skills/tech/etc needed across projects, or if one project needs particular help with a lot of stuff.
Potential features:
- Scannable list of all tasks
- Easily understood visual indicators for each task that convey meaning about metadata like skill/tech/level of difficulty/etc.
- Filterable by difficulty
- Filterable by project
- Filterable by skill
- Filterable by tech
- Filterable by priority
Considerations
- Any solution needs to be seeded by information provided by project teams (including task metadata). How can we make it easier to collect this info?
- How do we ensure list is up-to-date?
- As of May 2021, we're piloting a quarterly survey that might include some project needs. These may or may be detailed enough, and may or may not be reported frequently enough to be up to date.
- Tasks need to be well-scoped and very clear. They should probably include a one-sentence summary with option for slightly more detail, and an explicit next step/path to get started. They should probably also include an owner.
- It would be cool if a visitor could assign themselves a task and the system could automate management from there. Email a 24-hour check-in: did you work on this? If no > release task back to main list. If yes > Email 72-hour check-in: Still working on this? If task isn't complete within one week, it gets released back to the main list (or archives and duplicated, with the duplicate added to the main list, for a kind of "version control").