Couple of ideas for increasing participation

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Thursday 22 December 2005 05:22, Matthew East wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 19:52 -0500, Matt Galvin wrote:
> > On 12/18/05, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > Andreas Brunner (littlepaul) brought a couple of interesting ideas to
> > > encourage more participation in docteam work. Let's see what people
> > > think, I think they are both pretty good.
> > >
> > > 1. Ubuntu-doc-school
> > >
> > > Drawing on the recent motu-school idea, we could arrange a similar
> > > scheme. It would involve a brief presentation on irc introducing the
> > > team, what we do, our working methodology etc, anything to help people
> > > get involved. We could also take the opportunity of tidying
> > > up/improving the wiki pages dealing with this.
> >
> > While this is a good idea, I personally don't feel there are enough
> > "meat and potato's" topics to discuss that warrant something on the
> > scale of what the MOTU crew are doing. It may still be worth doing, I
> > just don't know how many formal discussion topics there could be. The
> > MOTU's have a LOT (relatively) to talk about compared to us. But none
> > the less, its still a good idea and worth trying (possibly on a
> > smaller scale (i don't know what that is yet)).
>
> I agree, I think the best way to approach this is as a way of involving
> people, it would involve a short introduction to how the docteam works,
> the projects, and a quick intro to the tools, nothing spectacularly
> technical.
>
> > > 2. Newsletter
> > >
> > > Newsletters are fashionable (motu, desktop team etc) and we could
> > > produce something once a month or every now and again in which we
> > > introduce new features, and what is going on in the doc world.
> >
> > Absolutely, +1
>
> Ok, let's start moving with this idea. I'm cc:ing this mail to
> fridge-devel who apparently have recently expressed an interest in
> collecting a list of cool wiki pages: I suggest we start composing our
> first newsletter, and include some top wiki material. I'll draw
> something up on a wiki page, in the style of UDN or similar, and we can
> all hack at it until it looks awesome. Then it can be posted around the
> mailing lists, and on the fridge.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Matt

Jerome on IRC had a nice idea to help get people more involved.  There is a 
group of people "leading" several documents, server guide, desktop guide,etc 
and then there is a group of people that want to contribute but don't know 
how or where to start w/o interfering with people.  He talked about getting 
people to act as reviewers and then send diffs/patches to the leads.  


We talked about how a lot of sections have the status="review" on them, but no 
one seems to change the status from review to complete, or very few people 
make the change.  So if someone reviews a section and suggest/makes changes 
the status="review" can be changed to status="complete"


Jonathan