TaskCloud

Context/goals/problem

A group/coalition wants to make progress towards an outcome/goal/deliverable, but most members are not full-time.

Meta/related: what about non-task items?

Forces:

Different people have different amounts of time to offer.
A given person's time investment will change over time.
Different people have different kinds of skills to offer (dev, strategy, design, marketing/marcom, community growing).
Even if participating for intrinsic reasons, having the possibility of a financial compensation can increase motivation (note counter-arguments where motivation is reduced by rewards).
People will participate in multiple groups. Some are even offline!
People don't want their out-of-group tasks visible to the group/public.
Running software (in the cloud) costs money.
Some tasks/deliverables are more urgent/important at a given point in time to deliver value.
If one person is 20% done with a task and gets busy with other things, it might make sense for someone else to take it over.
If one person is 80% done with a task and gets busy with other things, it might not make sense for someone else to take it over.
Tasks should be integrated into a wiki (and DVCS, if there's any software being built) → SoftwareForge
Within a group....
??

Candidate (existing) solutions

Github issues (or gitlab?). Not much of a fan
Redmine/TracWiki - for $20/mo for hosting, maybe just worth it
- see open-group versions: Better Means, Love Machine
Taco app (or Akiflow) as user-app for cross-group tasks assigned to you
- hmm PESOS vs "should FluxGarden have a ToDoList feature?"

A take by Venkatesh Rao, complaining about web3 tools like Discourse.

Bill Seitz