2011/12/26 Sascha Manns
Hello Bryen, hello mates,
Bryen M Yunashko wrote at Montag, 26. Dezember 2011, 06:48:10:
On Sun, 2011-12-25 at 17:46 +0100, Kim Leyendecker wrote: There are several aspects to OWN that make it one of the more unique challenges within the Project. The two that I see are 1) Ability to get a group of people to each commit weekly to their duties, and 2) some technical obstacles some people have faced.
For example, I pushed for more broader OWN proofreading and Sascha has done a great job of ensuring since then that more people are aware and can contribute to reviewing OWN before it gets formally published. But, the review process itself wasn't that easy for a lot of people. We could not directly edit without knowledge of HTML and having HTML editing software installed and going through a checkout process. For the marketing team this was different than the standard "edit-as-you-see-it" we experienced in such tools as ietherpad.
Of course, ietherpad would not have been a useful tool in OWN's case.
And to be sure, while we have seen great commitments from the OWN team, the team itself has been rather small. That was a huge burden on those few people, including Sascha and Satoru.
I too agree that Satoru would be a great new lead for OWN. He's been committed to the quality of the production and has been there week after week. But I suggest (at the risk of bikeshedding) that we consider the following:
1. Break down the various tasks within OWN production 2. Broadly within the News Team (or even more broadly within Marketing team), assess each task and see if we can make adjustments thus lowering the barrier for contributions. 3. Work in a more open manner (this is something I'm already seeing improvements in the past few weeks.) 4. As popular as it has been to expect a weekly edition, perhaps we should look at ways to adjust the release schedule in order to reduce the time-commitment burden.
Yes, i'm agreeing in all points. I've searched into our Wiki. The "old" Way to contribute and produce the OWN was through using our Wiki. Under: http://en.opensuse.org/Template:Weekly_news_full is the latest Template for the Weekly News. Maybe we can use it again. Other interesting stuff can be found in Portal:Weekly_news.
cu Sascha -- Sincerly yours
Sascha Manns Community &Support Agent open-slx GmbH http://www.open-slx.de (Business) http://saigkill.homelinux.net (Private) This mail is written with Balsam Professional 12.1
First of all a HUGE thank you Sasha (and Satoru) for the great work you have done so far. I think I could help but the next few months I have a lot on my plate, Although I think I could poke some guys to offer help ;-) Maybe some of the guys that contribute on the translation of the Greek OWN, since it is better not to have some translated in Greek issues of weekly news than having no weekly news at all. As others said if the works will be divided, more people can surely work on it more easily, so I would propose a list of the OWN sectors so that people can take each one or two or more sectors. Also I would propose to poke people e.g from KDE team to write the news about KDE. That way it will be less work for everyone. Unfortunately those days not many people are around so poking might take some time :( Kostas -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org