On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey@cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
The third is, I think, not our job. While a kind-hearted volunteer can offer to help a noob organise a project, ultimately arranging stuff like timelines, project management and BOMs is overkill for "being welcoming, friendly and helpful".
Overkill for a human to walk newbies through every single time, to be sure ... but in keeping with your "the first two are literally scriptable," these aspects, too, have some automatable components.
The very first thing that comes to mind is MediaWiki templates. (Of which I wouldn't be surprised if there already are some for, say, BOMs, on OpenWetWare; Cedric and I did the inventory on the Biolab Brussels page directly into MW.) Ultimately it's too much work to handhold everyone through *populating* a project plan ... but, having tackled a large project in a new area to me (planning, scripting, and filming a video tutorial series for a software library I wrote) and gotten some help from a professional educational designer, I have to point out that forms help *a lot*, just in terms of keeping a lot of new ideas neatly organised.
The very first thing that comes to mind is MediaWiki templates. (Of which I wouldn't be surprised if there already are some for, say, BOMs, on OpenWetWare; Cedric and I did the inventory on the Biolab Brussels page directly into MW.) Ultimately it's too much work to handhold everyone through *populating* a project plan ... but, having tackled a large project in a new area to me (planning, scripting, and filming a video tutorial series for a software library I wrote) and gotten some help from a professional educational designer, I have to point out that forms help *a lot*, just in terms of keeping a lot of new ideas neatly organised.
The other thing this brings to mind is that if you are a parts vendor, building and hosting free design tools is the commoditise-your-complements pattern: your free thing brings customers for your actual business (parts) to your door. IDT customers might recognise this as the SciTools model.
Cheers,
--mlp
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