Add a "Participate" (or join) button to projects

[titlecharacter]

Projects should really have a "join" button that:

• Adds the user to the project
• Emails the Maintainer to let them know

[themightychris]

@bennovack see #56

[themightychris]

@bennovack I really like @schlos's suggestion that users would only ever request to join projects, and then the maintainer would process that and designate a role for them

[titlecharacter]

What would you imagine if the maintainer has lost interest, never responds, etc?

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Chris Alfano [email protected]
wrote:

@bennovack I really like @schlos's suggestion that users would only ever request to join projects, and then the maintainer would process that and designate a role for them

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
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[themightychris]

Good question. Maybe the number + duration of pending applications could be a good metric for brigade admins to spot inactive maintainers and either designate a new maintainer or update the project status. A project without an active and visible maintainer isn't going to get anywhere anyway so maybe this would offer a good forcing effect for that.

Also, brigade admins would have the same capabilities as the maintainer to take action without getting into changing maintainer yet.

[rmcmillen50]

I've looked through #56 too, @themightychris. I've also thought about our idea of creating "help wanted job postings" inspired by the site: https://openopps.digitalgov.gov/. I've determined that would be overkill for a "version 1" attempt.

Instead, let's start by adding a "participate button" that would sit next to "add" (which btw, I think we should hide unless you're a maintainer) button - which would load a mini popup form that has,

• space for two sentences of description text.
• A long-text, free form paragraph field that essentially turns into the email body content.
• A label for that field that says, "How do you think you cold help? Other comments or questions?"
• A "Count me in!" button that sends an email with that freeform text in the body.
• email subject could be, "You have a new volunteer for your Code for Philly project!"