Project statuses

[Sara Farmer]

Hi all,

I've had a bit of a tidyup in the projects area, but I'm having some
problems with explaining CrisisCommons project statues. Specifically,
what is the difference between "proposed" and "incubating" and what
does "inactive" mean?

Thanks,

Sj.

[christopher taylor]

machine translation is in testing phase this week. we should be up and
running by sunday.

ct

[Noel Dickover]

Hi Sara,

We are still trying to "bin" all of the projects, so not all of them are in the right place yet.  Here's the plan:

 - "Proposed" projects have not gotten started yet, at least based on the interaction on the wiki and other places
 - "Incubating" projects was the name chosen for "inactive" projects because folks thought inactive had a negative connotation.  So really, those two should be the same thing.
 - "Completed" projects means the project is working fine without crisiscamp participation (not necessarily that its done, although some are)

Let me know if that approach makes sense,

Noel

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Sara Farmer <sara....@btinternet.com> wrote:

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[Sara Farmer]

Hi Noel,   That makes perfect sense - and luckily it matches the trawl that I did yesterday to organise the "new" and "active" projects on the CCwiki projects page (http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Projects) :-) What I did was:   * Moved the projects from the bottom of the "Requests" page into the "Proposed, Incubating and Inactive" page. * Moved all the "new projects" on the projects page that *did not* have evidence of being worked on, to the "new" section of the projects page. * Moved all the "new projects" on the projects page that *did* have evidence of being worked on, to the "active" section of the projects page. * Transferred all the project management details for each project to the project's own wikipage (creating those pages where needed) and made sure that every active project has a line in the "active projects" section of the projects page * Moved any projects marked as 'completed' to the "completed projects" page   So we now have four lists -   * proposed projects - requested, but not released for development yet * new projects - proposed, checked and released to be worked on * active projects - being worked on * completed projects - development finished   - I made the assumption that the change from a proposed to a new project was that it had been checked and approved by the camp organisers (e.g. you). We had a problem a few weeks back because one of the projects involved children and we did not want to work on it without more assurances about its provenance: this distinction between proposed and new would have made us much more comfortable about taking on this project. Can I write that this "sanity check" step in the project processing exists?   I organised the list because Alan and I are going to a UN meeting this friday about how tools were used in Haiti and I needed to give a decent account of our work, i.e. talk intelligently about the software that CrisisCamp has produced and spot 'gaps' that it hasn't yet filled. Organising the lists is also a first step towards building a list of "grab and go" software for future crises: London started this list (http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Tools) recently, and Toronto have offered to help finish it this weekend. Does this make sense to you, and is this sort of information already available on the wiki etc?   Last but not least, the CrisisCommons projects page (http://crisiscommons.org/Projects) has several projects whose links give "access denied" errors. Is there more project information lurking behind them, or are these broken Drupal links?       Sj. --- On Wed, 24/2/10, Noel Dickover <ndic...@gmail.com> wrote: