Request for Ubuntu Doc Leadership

[Elizabeth K. Joseph]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Hannie Dumoleyn
<lafeber-dumoleyn2 at zonnet.nl> wrote:
> Knowing from experience that the task of a coordinator is time consuming, I
> do not know if we can find such a person in the docs team. In order to
> spread the tasks, I also suggested to have 3 separate divisions in the docs
> team:
> Ubuntu Desktop (tasks: writing new content, reviewing existing content,
> translations)
> Ubuntu Server Guide (tasks: writing new content, reviewing existing content,
> translations)
> Ubuntu Wiki

Thanks Hannie. The team is actually divided like this. One of my big
tasks when I joined the team a few years ago was to structure our wiki
page so this was more clear, but I guess I didn't succeed :) If you
look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam the first sentence
explains that we have system documentation, which links to Desktop and
Server, and we also contribute to the community help wiki. The headers
on this page are split up similarly, with the goal of having folks dig
in themselves to find what they want. We have key contributors that
focus on each area, with wiki admins, and folks who do a lion's share
of the work on desktop and server.

I fear our wiki is still a bit of a wall of text, even though it's
accurate. I'd love to see us move in the direction of something better
than that but again... coordination and time from someone experienced
with community building would be a huge help here. I like what the
Manual team has done with their getting involved stuff and it would be
nice to emulate that somehow: http://ubuntu-manual.org/getinvolved

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Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2