The BeeSeek Community

The first step for a FOSS project is a community. In fact, in the philosophy of Free Software, the project development is public and freely available. So, BeeSeek is based on a community too.

Our community is split in various groups (teams). Everyone manages and develops a bit of BeeSeek.
Each team has a page in Launchpad, an advanced platform for software development and teams organization, and is driven by a Team Leader, which organizes the team and is an intermediary between the team and the Council.
The Council is a group formed by all Team Leaders and the project managers. They are accountable for the BeeSeek project. The Council gives the strategic decisions and manages the general development of the project.

The Structure

The project managers

BeeSeek was a Simone Brunozzi's (ubuntista) idea and so he drives the project. To help him there is Andrea Colangelo (warp10). They coordinate the teams and take part in the Council. Simone Brunozzi has the office for Self Addicted Benevolent Dictator For Life (SABDFL) too.

BeeSeek Council

The Council is composed by our SABDFL plus the five Team Leaders. It is the organism that manage the whole project and has the final word on any decision.

BeeSeek Developers Team

This team aims to develop and improve BeeSeek softwares. The members of this teams can do one or more of these things:

• Writing code A medium-advanced knowledge of Python is necessary.

• Testing softwares Recommended for everyone. No knowledge required.

• Documenting code In collaboration with the Wiki Team. A basic knowledge of Python is requested.

• Updating packages A knowledge of the package type you want to make is requested.

You can find detailed information in the BeeSeek Developers Wiki page.

BeeSeek Artists Team

This team creates the official BeeSeek artworks.

BeeSeek Wiki Team

This team takes care of editing this wiki. Everyone can write on this wiki, because of the open nature of BeeSeek. But the members of this team have also the office to check if the contained informations are correct. Please pay particular attention to the Official Documentation: this is a fundamental part of BeeSeek.
Visit the BeeSeek Wiki Team page for more informations.

BeeSeek Bloggers Team

In this team there are editors and writers for the Official Blog.

BeeSeek Promo Team

This is the BeeSeek Promo Team. It is involved in spreading BeeSeek, helping people to know the project and creating opportunities that help BeeSeek to be appealing and useful. Promotional campaigns, contests, relationships with mass media: everything that is needed to spread BeeSeek is a matter for the Promo Team. The Team is composed by people that have an experience in (or a passion for) marketing, that are creative, that like to work in groups.

Join the Community

If you want to help us, join our community following those simply steps!

Choose a team

To become an active member, you have to choose one or more teams. To do it, read carefully the team wiki page and be sure that the team you want to join is suitable with your skills and ambitions. Please, do not subscribe to a team if you won't participate actively.

Create a Launchpad account

Launchpad is the platform we use to coordinate teams and members, so if you want to to join the community you have to create your own account. Go to the Launchpad home page (https://launchpad.net) and click on Login / Register button at the top of the page in the right side. Put your e-mail address below Not registered yet? and then press Register. You will receive an e-mail from Launchpad soon. Read it carefully and follow the instructions.

Subscribe to a team

Now you can join the team you have chosen! Login in Launchpad with your own account and go to the page of the team you are interested in. Click the Join the team button and check the confirmation e-mail. Now you are an active member!

Subscribe to the Wiki

The wiki is an important component of BeeSeek. We use it to coordinate Teams, to develop Documentation and a lot of other things. If you really want to participate at your best, click on the Login button and go to the UserPreferences page to sign out!

Introduce yourself to the community

Subscribe to the Mailing List of your team and write a short presentation e-mail.

Have a great experience

Now that you have the membership, show us what you can do!

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