A few things

[Enrico Zini]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 08:11:44AM -0500, John Hornbeck wrote:

> So it seems most of the discussions have been happening on irc, between
> doc writers and alot of questions are coming up.  Here is a list lets
> see if we can answer some.
> 
> 1.  What are we doing?  This has been asked alot out of me, yet I have
> no clue. :-)

Total World Domination, of course.
Or, more precisely, acheiving total world domination by documenting the
fact that we dominate the world already.


> 2. Who is the doc team?  This again I don't really know, I know of
> myself, plovs, sivang, asw.  Those are the ones I know, I think enrico
> is in there somewhere, but he said he does not really write docs.

I should be in, yes.  What I'm interested in:
 - contributing my small knowledge around user-centered design and
   categorization
 - putting together visionary long-term plans

My possible involvement:
 Since there's already lots of very good people writing documentation, I
 see the need for someone doing the dirty job of tracking what's
 happening, keeping things linked together, spot/collect problems and
 solve them.  Shortly put, oil the gears, so that everyone is happy and
 things are smooth, or glue the community so that it's not necessary for
 everyone to know about everone else in order to cooperate.
 Since that's mainly dirty job, I'm currently negotiating with Mark for
 some funding in order to do it.  My involvement mainly depends on the
 outcome of that, and that's why I've been a bit cautious in taking
 responsibilities so far.


> 3. Where did this new wiki come from? I have no clue, I was not told
> about it before hand.

Me either, although I can see the reasons behind the move.


> 4.  Should we be talking through mail instead of irc? Yes, we need to
> convay ideas through mail and chat while we work in irc.  If major
> discussions happen in irc, we need to log them here.  Not everyone can
> be in irc all the time.

I like (and reiterate :) the idea of, after an idea storm happened in
IRC, spending a moment to wrap things up into a RFC to post on the list.
The act itself of wrapping things into an RFC induces lots of cleanup in
the ideas, and would start discussions in the list with already some
solid ground.


> 5. Who is our leader?  I have been told one has not been apointed yet.
> This I think is something that needs to be made or at least a group who
> can semi make decisions.

Well, we should also consider giving some thought about what do we need
a leader for.  Sabdfl can already be a leader.  The Ubuntu Code of
Conduct can be a very good leader.  Until we're a small group, at least.
 

> 6. Hornbeck, way are you so sexy?  Well I cannot help that.

/me wants Hornbeck as a model for erotic Ubuntu artwork!


> 7. Do we start adding things to the new wiki?  I personally am holding
> off that way if something happens in this merge, I don't want my work
> messed up.  I have also slowed on the old wiki due to the merge coming
> and I don't want to keep adding and end up losing something.

I wanted to do some mock-up on the faceted categorization index (as I
wrote one or two days ago in the list), but I'm waiting for the new wiki
to stabilize a bit, so that I can ask the wiki developers for some help
with it.

 * enrico is struck by lightning

I just realized that I don't need the wiki to do a mockup:

 http://www.enricozini.org/enrico/store/categ_proto.html


Ciao,

Enrico

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