Couple of ideas for increasing participation

[Matthew East]

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 08:12 -0500, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> 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:

{snip}

> > > > 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?
> 
> 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.  

This is a good idea, but as far as I know this is in fact the current
practice! Newcomers should definitely be encouraged to send patches to
the list, which can then be checked and applied by the team 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"

Yeah definitely, although at an early point in the release cycle like
this, it's likely that the vast majority of the material should be in
"writing" and review will come later.

M
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