WANTED: Project manager for Portfolio

Heya guys,

My name is Ron and I have been building websites with Drupal since 4.6... Been to several camps (even presented at one) and as involved in the community as my work and family allow. I've been looking for a good way to contribute, and this seems like a good fit!

Much of what I do with my work as a freelance developer involves project managment - working with clients in discovery, developing feature lists and solutions, crafting release plans, estimating time and resources, parcelling out tasks to myself and other coders (sometimes the client!), updating the plan and generally working to get across the finish line.

I've actually been sort of tinkering with building an installation profile for something like this for a bit... I have been using features to package some common configs working towards this goal:
- single user blog (content type with commenting and tags instead of the core blog module)
- gallery (for website portfolio pages, image galleries, simple product/service catalog, etc.)
- slideshow integration for front page splash
- layered promotion system
- some default views to provide different layouts
- social media integration

I've been inspired to a certain degree by one of my favorite D6 projects from last year - the Annise Parker site (mayor of Houston). The site has a front page slideshow for promoted content, blog list, news content list, and a "featured" grid on the front page. A post can end up in multiple areas depending ont he options chosen by the author, and this presents several great opportunities to promote content in different ways. I also build a simple slider block module to display FB and Twitter widgets in the sidebar.

I would really love to help out, and I am willing to devote regular weekly time to helping manage the project. I can commit to at least 1 or 2 solid chunks of time per week for general coding, testing, research, organizing, etc... and within reason can keep an eye on the issue queue on a mostly daily basis.

I currently don't have any projects on Drupal.org that I am assigned to, so I would feel comfortable committing to this. I've got alot of experience with managing projects and building many different types of Drupal sites... and I am completely on board with the idea of using core and popular contrib modules to do everything we need.

Personally, I'd like to see this become a solid out-of-the-box solution for people to quickly setup a portfolio/personal website... and I think this could also serve as a starting point for developers to create their own variations for more specific use cases.

I went ahead and subscribed to this issue queue, so feel free to comment back. You can also reach me thru my profile here or on Skype (relatidings). Let me know how I can best help!

regards,
Ron Northcutt

Updated issue summary.

Hello everyone. I saw chx' twitter post and figured I'd jump in here to see what he was posting about.

I would be interested in helping as the project manager on this. My day job is as a Senior Project Manager at Mediacurrent and before my time at Mediacurrent, I was a project manager at IBM for 13 years. In both places, I worked remote, including other countries, so working with the various individuals on this project would be no different. I've done one or two _small contributions to this point but would like to jump in here and help as needed. At Mediacurrent, I manage many different projects of varying sizes and thus have experience switching between projects and people on those projects. I can contribute regular monitoring and prodding to keep the project moving.

In reading the issue queue to this point, there's a lot of deep thought here and it would be exciting to be a part of it. This is a daunting undertaking, aiming to do no less than provide a significant alternative to tumblr or whatever the hottest thing is next.

The use cases appear to be wrapped up and there are a few people involved. I'd like to get started and help define the quick next steps that are needed to maintain momentum, which is the most valuable resource an open source project can have. (Negative) Inertia is tough to fight against. Let me know if you want more information.

EDIT: Added Negative before Inertia as objects in motion have inertia that resists stopping the momentum. It's a minor physics nit but it bugged me the whole seven-hour drive I just completed that I misspoke as such. That said, I couldn't come up with a better word for "tendency of something at rest to stay at rest" than negative inertia, which I'm sure is the wrong term. So much for applying physics to an abstract concept like team dynamics :)

I assume there's no news on this with all the work going into D8 core these days. However, I'm keenly interested in portfolio, and strongly considering taking on this role (especially if there are interested parties willing to fund my time). This would be a wonderful thing for Drupal, and given how much has already gone into D8 (e.g. #501428: Date and time field type in core and Views, etc) I think it's reasonable to consider starting to build this in D8 (although D7 would also be fine for now). Feel free to contact me if you want to talk privately, or reply here.

Thanks!
-Derek

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