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MyDevArmy

  • Q: I'd like to participate. How do I begin?

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      Visit the project space www.assembla.com/wiki/show/mydevarmy and register so I can add you to the development team of the project.


         — Kiril Gantchev (kgantchev) · 7 years ago
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      Contact me via e-mail if you're looking for general information on how to contribute. You can find a link to my e-mail in my Open Hatch profile. Alternately you can send me a message on skype: mydevarmy.


         — Kiril Gantchev (kgantchev) · 6 years ago
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        Talk about diverse kinds of contributions. Include URLs if relevant (we'll automatically linkify them).

      • Examples:

        Here's how to download and patch our codes…

        Read about our death-defying mailing list and momentous IRC channel at http://lobstermag.net.

  • Q: Other than writing code, how can I contribute?

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      Analyse and address some potential pitfalls of crowdsourcing

      1. Added costs to bring a project to an acceptable conclusion.
      2. Increased likelihood that a crowdsourced project will fail due to lack of monetary motivation, too few participants, lower quality of work, lack of personal interest in the project, global language barriers, or difficulty managing a large-scale, crowdsourced project.
      3. Below-market wages or no wages at all.
      4. No written contracts, non-disclosure agreements, or employee agreements or agreeable terms with crowdsourced employees.
      5. Difficulties maintaining a working relationship with crowdsourced workers throughout the duration of a project.
      6. Susceptibility to faulty results caused by targeted, malicious work efforts.


         — Kiril Gantchev (kgantchev) · 7 years ago
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      Conceptualize the reward structure

      Need to conceptualize how rewards are going to work and present a good model for interaction.


         — Kiril Gantchev (kgantchev) · 6 years ago
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        Discuss documentation, testing, webmastering, and/or publicity.

        Include URLs if relevant (we'll automatically linkify them).

      • Example:

        We need people to download version 0.4.5 and make sure the frobulator still frobulates correctly.

  • Q: What's a good bug for a newcomer to tackle?

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      Use the URLFriendly function to rewrite the titles for use in a URL

      We have a URLFriendly function that takes in a title and returns a "URL friendly" version of the title. We need to start utilizing that function when rewriting titles, for more details see the ticket: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/mydevarmy/tickets/9-add-a-urlfriendlytitle-in-the-coresponding-tables


         — Kiril Gantchev (kgantchev) · 6 years ago
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      • Tip:

        Many projects have good small tasks that can teach newcomers how the project works. Now's your chance to share one of them!

        Include URLs if relevant (we'll automatically linkify them).

      • Example:

        Someone could improve the photo upload dialog box so that it lets you resize the photo before sending it to the web.

  • Q: What is a bug or issue with MyDevArmy that you've been putting off, neglecting, or just plain avoiding?

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      Always wanted to add more login options

      It's actually an important issue, it's just that it's not in the critical path of the development cycle. We have OpenID login with MyOpenID so we're happy for now, but adding Yahoo, Google and Facebook logins is expected to increase the number of new users.


         — Kiril Gantchev (kgantchev) · 6 years ago
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      • Examples:

        I don't know how to get started with internationalizing my app.

        Bug 392 about printing was filed five years ago, and I don't even know if printing still works.

        I want help from a C coder writing a Maildir patch for Alpine.

      • Note:

        If this issue was formally filed on the web, be sure to include the URL.

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About MyDevArmy

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My Dev Army (www.mydevarmy.com) is a competitive crowdsourcing software development web site that is inspired by TopCoder, but it will include educational/free, open source and royalty-based competitions instead of just cash-based competitions.

Visit www.assembla.com/wiki/show/mydevarmy for more information on the project.

from the profile of Kiril Gantchev (kgantchev)

The code is mostly written in ASP.NET-MVC, C#, ASP.NET-MVC3.

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