Monthly Reports

[Nathan Handler]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Monthly reports would be much better automatically generated by a
> combination of the event organiser on the loco directory and a simple
> blog system that did not have to be manually tied into the greater blog
> network of planets.

Martin,

I agree that this would make them easier, and that currently they are
not the most enjoyable thing to do. However, your proposed method
would not work for most teams. For example, how would it know that we
has been discussed/planned/agreed on/announced via the mailing list?
How would it know what happens at IRC meetings? Blog posts also tend
to be rather long/lengthy. The Team Reports are generally just a few
bullets. Daniel Holbach had started working on a Django application
that would make it easier to construct the reports (however, it would
still be up to the teams to remember the events and write bullets
about them), but that appears to have stalled for various reasons. So
while I agree that we should make the process as easy as possible, I
do not think that this is the best way to go about doing so.

Nathan