Bryan Berry schrieb: > Christoph wrote: > > POINT #1: ALL THE ENTHUSIASM IN THE WORLD FAILS IF IT CAN NOT BE HARNESSED. > POINT #2: WE STILL DO NOT HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE SET OF FEDORA WORK ITEMS > SUITABLE FOR NEWBIES > POINT #3: ONCE WE HAVE STRONG TASK MANAGEMENT TOOLS, WE CAN FUNNEL ALL > KINDS OF NEW ENERGY INTO OUR PROCESS. > > This is dead-on. We definitely need the "Idea Funnel" proposed by Greg > Dek. > > Before this though, we could benefit by having clear milestones and > goals for content development rather than the current ad hoc approach. > > >> Another thing that I've been also thinking about - but don't know how >> feasible it really is - is setting up mini-competitions (think >> "Challenge XO" or something) to get more community members involved in >> creating content, writing activities, documentation, testing, etc. >> > > To make this useful, you will need to start w/ clear goals for the > competitions > drawn from the pilots. Otherwise, the projects will go in all different > directions as in Greg's Point #1 > Excellent point that ties in nicely with one of the things I'm going to mention in my short presentation during GrassCon called "Moving from Talk to Action" (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GrassCon#Presenter_Sign-Up_Times): basically considering deployments and their feedback as somewhat of a sanity check and also a reference point that keeps people/contributors focused.
[talk about a shameless plug, right?] ;-) Cheers, Christoph > Your Co-Editor at OLPC News > > Bryan Berry > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > > -- Christoph Derndorfer Co-Editor OLPCnews, http://www.olpcnews.com _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
