Fwd: Getting Involved

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi Chris,

nicely said... there is always hope. I'm going to spend a bit of time on
that page. I have also got good news! Conner Imes did reply to my email to
the wiki admin team about redirects - they have a full set of instructions
that I will be adding the link of to the lubuntu wiki-docs area wiki page.

Regards,

Phill.

On 10 February 2012 21:24, Chris <cyber.druif at gmail.com> wrote:

> "It was on a warm July afternoon, when the sun was shining through the
> aligned holes opening up the gates to hell. It was on that day that the
> wind also blew from the east and let a single snowflake find it's way to
> the into the midst of hell. Everyone looked in amaze over the miracle that
> has just accorded." However, it didn't mention a specific date ;-)
> Some people say this story is just a legend, others only find hope in it.
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 17:53, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Boss,
>>
>> oddly enough the retired 'head' of comms asked me to put a version of
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams in for that page.
>>
>> Yeah, as I've given that link out a couple of times for new people coming
>> on board I agree that it should be mentioned. Some where on our wiki area
>> is going to have to be the GpG key stuff as done
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto for people coming
>> on with their lp pages. But. with the re-think of FAQ being split back into
>> beginner / advanced / expert I think it belongs at the advanced section.
>>
>> But, that is another can of worms... do we simply have 'Beginner; and
>> 'Advanced'?
>>
>> I'll get the basics done on the page, the rest of the mailing list can
>> decide if we have a three way split of FAQ, or a two way split.... It will
>> keep them busy at the keyboards.
>>
>> And for the record, as it is a nightmare to decide what is n00b and what
>> is not... let's keep it simple.... that's my vote. At which point you will
>> all want 249,333.5 levels of expertise and expect the wiki/docs team to
>> have them all correctly placed..... To which I can only remark... "When was
>> the last time you actually saw a snow-flake in hell?"
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>>
>> On 10 February 2012 15:12, Julien Lavergne <gilir at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Le 02/10/2012 09:17 AM, Phill Whiteside a écrit :
>>>
>>>  One of several omissions may be our web-access to our IRC areas, forum
>>> areas, facebook area etc. Just as with lubuntu, it can be a page that is
>>> overly populated and possibly add sub topics for 'how to get involved -
>>> contact us' that could point directly to that area?
>>>
>>> I like the idea of one sub topic for each team, with the mailing list
>>> contact or the one in charge of the coordination of the team.
>>>
>>>
>>>  One thing I have been asked twice in one day is to how to actually set
>>> up a LP account so as to be able to join a 'team' on on the mailing list,
>>> so possibly a link to those instructions... at which point the page just
>>> gets longer and longer :/
>>>
>>>   Maybe this : https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/NewAccount ?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Julien Lavergne
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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