From what I can understand, they are going to end up with a few hundred pledges of technical persons' time in small blocs. The leading projects are not those that I think would benefit tremendously from a few hours with a technical person. I imagine they have plenty.
The are mostly either directly software related (Free Software Foundation, GNOME), Web Based (Kiva, Watchdog.net), technical in nature (Engineers Without Borders, Solar Energy), very big fish (Medicines Sans Frontier) or others that probably can easily get what a programmer can give them in a couple of hours (atheist organisations & such).
As an exercise in community allocation of resources, I think this has hit a wall.
From what I can understand, they are going to end up with a few hundred pledges of technical persons' time in small blocs. The leading projects are not those that I think would benefit tremendously from a few hours with a technical person. I imagine they have plenty.
The are mostly either directly software related (Free Software Foundation, GNOME), Web Based (Kiva, Watchdog.net), technical in nature (Engineers Without Borders, Solar Energy), very big fish (Medicines Sans Frontier) or others that probably can easily get what a programmer can give them in a couple of hours (atheist organisations & such).
As an exercise in community allocation of resources, I think this has hit a wall.