[Ubuntu Chicago] Chicago Loco wiki cleanup

[Steve Woodruff]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Steve Woodruff <swoody at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> After doing a bit of perusing and a little editing in the Loco's wiki
>> pages recently, I feel that we could do a lot to clean-up, simplify,
>> and better coordinate the pages. I know there have been a lot of
>> people who have put a lot of time into these pages, and I greatly
>> appreciate that effort, but I think for the sake of sanity and
>> cleanliness, that we would benefit from a nice overhaul of the wikis.
>>
>> 1) Personally, I feel that we should make our wiki pages include
>> information only - and pertinent information at that. I feel that
>> while certain pages have been created with good ideas and good
>> intentions, that they are not being utilized (notably the
>> /HardwareSwap, /IdeaPool, and /TeamSpeak pages). I feel it would be
>> much more useful if we deleted these pages, and encouraged these types
>> of things to take place on the mailing list.
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> +1 for this.
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>> 2) I would further propose that the /Meetings page, the /Projects
>> page, and all of the various /ReleaseParty /KarmicReleaseParty and
>> similar pages be merged into a single Meetings & Events page, so
>> members (and potential members) can stay up to date with all of our
>> events in one place. I think this would also do a great deal of help
>> with planning events.
>>
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> I'm ok with this, too.
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>> 3)I think the /NewMembers page and the /NewUsers page could also be
>> merged very easily.
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> Yes.
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>> 4) I would also propose that we get rid of the 'Team List' page, and
>> replace the link in the navbar to be directed to our membership list
>> on LaunchPad. I think this will do a great job at keeping our
>> membership roster up to date, and simplified. On that note, I would
>> also like to propose that we setup our LP group members with a
>> one-year expiration period, so that we can further keep our roster up
>> to date, and filled with active members. For those of you who are
>> unfamiliar with this expiration period with LP, you would receive an
>> email notice informing you that your membership in the team is going
>> to expire soon, from there you would just go back into LP and renew
>> your membership for another year. I feel this would not cause anyone
>> too much grief, as the renewal process is quick and would only be done
>> once a year.
>>
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> I don't have any real issues with this.  I think there are people who are on
> the list or are part of the team who haven't been involved in some time.  If
> they still want to participate (or lurk, which is fine), they could renew .
> . .  if not, their team membership would expire.
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>> 5) I feel after all of this cleaning up, that the navbar at the top of
>> the wiki pages could be cleaned up a bit, and minimized to our new and
>> pertinent pages.
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> Yes.
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>> 6) There are other various spots where I feel the wiki's could be
>> cleaned up, and further narrowed down. There seems to be a lot of
>> duplicated info, and pages which aren't utilized. I would like to put
>> together a group of a couple people who would be interested in working
>> on the wiki together. We can then go through everything, and try to
>> update and tidy things up overall.
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> Some of what you've mentioned could be done pretty quickly.  I would
> volunteer, but know that I'm too locked-in as it is.
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>> Again, I don't mean to step on any toes here, and I do respect the
>> work that has been put into the wiki pages thus far. However, I think
>> it would be for the good of the team if we gave this a good overhaul.
>> As always let us all know your opinions, feelings, suggestions, etc.
>> Thanks!
>>
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> Thanks for bringing this up, Steve.  I'm ok with each of your suggestions.
> Jim
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Jim,

Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate your input here. I
noticed your name on nearly every wiki page for the team, so I was
really hoping to get your ideas about this all. I can understand that
you've got a full schedule, so it's no problem at all. Also, I do
agree that this wiki overhaul won't take *too* much time or effort.


Everyone else,

On that note, if anybody out there would like to give me a hand with
these pages, that would be great! If there are no objections to
anything I mentioned or if nobody else has any ideas they'd like to
contribute, I have no problems working on the wikis myself, but it
would be great if anybody else wants to join me :)

-- 
Steve Woodruff
swoody at ubuntu.com