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I'm seeing one "yes" and one "maybe" response on the volunteers wanted thread you referenced. Any idea why he said "no one" responded?
Also, that was posted about four years ago. The site has grown massively since then. There were (looks at my spreadsheet from Trike Apps full of registration dates) 373 members on 3-11-09. They hadn't even added Overcoming Bias yet. (That happened on 5-28-09). If the number of volunteers has increased proportionately to the number of members, then one or two volunteers four years ago could be a team today, as there are over one hundred times as many registered users now (13,726 as of 8-24-2012).
If they asked again, they might get dozens of volunteers.
It looks to me like all they need is a strategy to predict which ones are worth the overhead, and someone to manage them. Then, if they posted a "volunteers wanted" thread again, they might succeed.
It's a very vague recollection, I just remember him complaining about the lack of Python volunteers.
I wonder if they're choosy about what language the person normally uses. The code I work with at my job is not written in Python, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't be willing to put in the extra effort to work with new syntax and get into Python reference documentation.
If you really want to volunteer, install and configure the LW code from github, make the changes, test them and present a working fork to EY to poke at and give you feedback. If he likes the result, he'll probably ask Trike to review and integrate your changes. Or something along these lines.
That's the second time I've heard that piece of advice.
If I desire to make a change that is most likely wanted, not too large a time investment (as I am risking that the change is ignored or rejected), and also the sort of change that can be made by editing the open source (as opposed to, say, an SEO change specific to the text in an article or something), I will consider doing just that.
Oops, sorry. I should have realized. My thought process was "If I were Luke, what kind of volunteer help with the site would I prefer?" And the answer is invariably "minimum hassle".
The other person told me elsewhere. There's no way you would have known about it. The intended meaning of "That's the second time..." was "When more than one person tells me something, that makes it seem more likely to be useful."
Heh. You're probably right.