[ubuntu-uk] Profile Roulette

[Alan Bell]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ProfileRoulette

One of the great things about the online community is the speed at which
an idea can spread. Barry Smyth, a member of the local community team in
Ireland who is working on a masters degree in computing is looking at
ways to improve community involvement as a part of his course. He came
up with the idea of focusing on one member each day in order to help
everyone get to know each other better through a profile of the day
project https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/ProfileOfTheDay This seems
like a fine idea, so we have picked it up and added a few extra twists.
In order to document stuff you do relating to Ubuntu everyone can create
their own personal page on the Ubuntu Wiki, mine is here
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlanBell so you can see the sort of stuff that
goes on it. People can edit other people’s pages if they want, it is a
wiki after all. If you like something that someone has done, you can
leave them a testimonial on their wiki page. These are looked at when
people apply to be an Ubuntu Member or go for a position on any of the
various governance boards and committees in the community.

We have now launched Profile Roulette!
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ProfileRoulette

This is a game that everyone can play, you can subscribe to the Profile
Roulette page to get an email each time the wheel spins, every day it
will point to the personal wiki page of someone in the UK LoCo. You can
see who the person of the day is, maybe you would like to leave them a
testimonial or help them fix up their wiki page in some way. If you want
to be on the page then what you have to do is create your personal wiki
page (just go to wiki.ubuntu.com/YourName and create a new page there)
and at the bottom of the page add the text:

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[[CategoryUKTeamProfile]]
Then when the Profile Roulette wheel spins it might be your turn under
the spotlight, don’t forget to subscribe to the Profile Roulette page so
you get notified when it is your turn.

I will generally announce in the #ubuntu-uk IRC channel when the wheel
spins, and possibly tweet it too if I remember to do that.

Alan.