Seeking an Open Source Development Manager

[Jeru]

We need someone to help facilitate and encourage open source community contributions to the 0 A.D. codebase.

By "facilitating", we mainly mean organizing information on our website, and especially on Trac, the system we use to manage tasks and bug reports. We'd like it to be as clear as possible, and we need someone to update information continuously, so that new contributors can always know exactly where they fit in and where their work is needed most. You'd also be expected to answer basic questions about the codebase and how to contribute to it.

By "encouraging", we mean reaching out to new contributors and motivating a community of existing developers to keep up the good work. It means you keep track of the community at large, even outside of our site, including distro package development and more. This side also involves some publicity, which will be done in coordination with 0 A.D.'s general PR effort.

To do this job well, you need to be a very social programmer. Although your main tasks won't involve programming, we still expect at least 3 years experience of programming C++ or having coded 30K lines in that language. Previous contributions to the 0 A.D. codebase are a big plus, so you may want to get your feet wet before applying. Good written English skills, and a sense for keeping information tidy, organized, clear and accessible are a must. It's best if you have previous experience of leading volunteers (in any context) or at least have participated in another online volunteer project, like a WikiProject on Wikipedia.

If you're interested, please apply following these instructions.

Edited September 7, 2010 by Jeru