wiki reorg - Documentation Team

[Michael Shiloh]

I've emailed Will and Brenda and hope to have an answer for you shortly.

Michael

Josh Monson wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> I completely agree with your "take this team in a direction" comments.
> Originally, a few days before this list was created, I posed the
> question
> Of whom would lead this or be in charge of it, in terms of coordinating
> the efforts of the volunteers. The response I received from OM was that
> Brenda has been leading this already and will continue to do so. I see a
> lot of back'n'forth on the list about who is doing what, but I do not
> see responses from Brenda or another person in listing out tasks,
> assigning work, goal orientation, etc...
> 
> William Lai wrote "In fact she has been actively 'leading' since day 1,
> before any of these discussions started."
> 
> So at this point, I guess my question would be of the following...Say
> it's been a few days since you have been able to check this lists
> emails, and you find yourself w/ a few hours of free time, or time you
> would like to dedicate to the wiki. How would one quickly find out
> something you could edit or organize that would be productive? Email the
> list and wait for a response? Go to the wiki page and just find
> something you feel should be different? Etc.....
> 
> A coordinated effort w/ end goals would be extremely efficient and
> usefull since none of the volunteers can put in days at a time on this
> :)
> 
> .02
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: documentation-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
> [mailto:documentation-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Justin
> Wong
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:58 PM
> To: documentation at lists.openmoko.org
> Subject: Re: wiki reorg - Documentation Team
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for being so inviting. I love the enthusiasm that everyone has
> to try to make this work!  It's really awesome and I think we really
> have potential to make positive changes happen.
> 
> However, I am seeing many individual efforts and not much effort as a
> team. If we continue to work the way things are going currently, not
> only are we going to get duplicated and wasteful work, but our efforts
> will also be fragmented and possibly going in different directions.
> 
> Instead of everyone taking a handful of pages and just going to fix it
> in an ad-hoc way, we need to coordinate our efforts towards a unified
> goal. Otherwise, the result will not be improved documentation, which
> is the ultimate goal for all of us.
> 
> I hope that we can take the necessary steps, as a group, to:
> 1) Gather all the issues we are seeing currently and identify the
> underlying problem.
> 2) Outline 3 (or some other number) key themes we need to work towards
> 3) Set up initiatives that work towards those themes
> 
> Right now, I think we need someone to step up and take this team in a
> direction. I would volunteer for this position, but am willing to let
> someone take charge who might have more time and commitment to this
> project.
> 
> Please respond in this thread with any suggestions/ideas.
> 
> 
> Cheers!
> Justin
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Ferenc Veres <lion at netngine.hu>
> wrote:
>>> One of you is currently writing a
>>>
>>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wiki_maintain_agenda
>> I think that is Brenda's page.
>>
>>> Anyway, it's not easy for one person to decide what to do with
> specific
>>> pages. Should we do voting page on the
>> I think it is important to  to two things at the same time:
>> - discuss guidelines and specific issues here, and document the
> results
>> - do updates on the wiki whenever each of us finds a page / section
>> that clearly needs updating, and it is clear to the finder how he /
>> she wants to update it.
>>
>> Anyway, that's how I plan to work.
>> The worst that can happen is that I must redo my work on some page if
>> the rest of the wiki maintainers team disagrees with my update. I can
>> live with that :-)
>>
>>> We also need a wiki administrator contact, to request changes which
> are
>>> not permitted for general users.
>> I think we have that already, in Brenda, our excellent Wiki editor.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Torfinn Ingolfsen
>>
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