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- Permissively licensed
- Low maintenance server/engine/whatever tool, that ComDev or Whimsy can install without having to worry about maintenance
- Fully templated questions & paths, so that it's easy to configure the pathways later, or so that we could build new pathways (perhaps for designers, docs, etc.) without needing to know programming
- Runs on any browser, with no server storage. Bonus points if a user can come back to finish completing a questionnaire (cookies, local storage, whatever).
- Basic skinnable features so it can roughly match existing ComDev website
- Stretch: translatable engine text (on buttons, etc.) and in scripting
Likely Major To-Dos
- Find and evaluate a CYOA engine, or similar software
- Run a prototype, perhaps on Whimsy, for testing
- Find a permanent low/zero maintenance home for it to run
- Draft potential questions / paths / people we want to attract
- Feedback, testing, evaluating both what a newcomer sees, understands, and wants to accomplish; plus also which projects/other areas we could point them to
- Evaluate usefulness of projects.a.o site now as a target for newcomers down a relevant path
- Evaluate how we'd do searching/matching for relevant projects, plus scoring (list more active projects first?)
- Evaluate how complete/accurate the data is
- Look for volunteers to help update DOAP files
- Mock how we'd present the tool: welcome screen, explanations, help system, whatever
- Plan testing, beta, comms, rollouts