[Ubuntu Chicago] Chicago Loco wiki cleanup

[Steve Woodruff]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Steve Woodruff <swoody at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Steve Woodruff <swoody at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> +1 for this.
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> I'm ok with this, too.
>>
>>>
>>> 3)I think the /NewMembers page and the /NewUsers page could also be
>>> merged very easily.
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>>
>>> 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!
>>>
>>
>> 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 :)

Maybe if there are people who are at the Doc Jam today who aren't
interested in working on system documentation, we can put together a
small team to work on the wikis :)


-- 
Steve Woodruff
swoody at ubuntu.com