Website "Get Involved" page update?

[masinter]

I keep on going around on this. I don't think the "Project Ideas" were successful in inviting anyone to ask any questions or consider any projects. It's still pretty amorphous. Google docs projects.

• People using the system and reporting bugs can be helpful. What do successful open source projects do to grow their teams? Or do they?

• We are looking for help but we're very picky about who and how. We're not looking for a lot of applicants.

• There are specific skills and experience that we need especially (GitHub, Library metadata)

• Perhaps we could fund a set of "prizes" or "grants" for projects? Or iggyback on some other agency or funding source?

• There are constraints and HR rules about how much we can pay without going through an agency or having an accountant.

ACM History Committee call for research grant applicants

I'm marking this "Help Wanted" because I'd like someone not-us to help review the "Get Involved" page on the website.

[masinter]

We should start out with "novice" tasks:

• I haven't tried this but I think Evaluate compatibility of Medley Common Lisp (formerly XCL) with popular books about Common Lisp #609 would be a good 'first' project. Take one of the common lisp programming books, and see if the examples and exercises can be done in Medley. If you know Common Lisp already then that's fine; if you know programming but not lisp, this will help you learn. Compare to SBCL or some other common lisp.

• Another 'first' project right now would be to walk through the web site and note topics that are incomprehensible, garbled, wrong, broken links. But we need to insure coverage. We don't need a lot of people doing this, though, and hopefully it will settle down soon.

(@alexshendi check out the `Get Involved' page)