wiki reorg - Documentation Team

[Justin Wong]

Thank you, Michael, for the follow up.

It would be great if Brenda has the time and resources to lead this
project.  If not, I hope Openmoko endorses someone to coordinate
efforts, maintain focus and keep this project on track.

Cheers!
Justin


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Michael Shiloh <michael at openmoko.org> wrote:
> 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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