Hi, On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:59 PM, C David Rigby <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 13:40 +0800, Mario Behling wrote: >> Thank you David! >> >> I have added a team section to the wiki at >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu . I guess for the beginning people can >> just add their names here if they wish. Subproject coordinators - >> people can become that according to their contribution I guess. Please >> add your names to your field of interest. >> > > OK - I will do that.
Good. > >> >> Concerning the wiki, the more comments we leave the more difficult it >> seems to follow - even though it is nice to have background infos and >> opinions. Not sure which way to go, but I think some things are easier >> discussed on a mailing list and as people join the IRC set up by >> Elfgoh at irc.freenode.net #lubuntu >> >> > > The wiki model of documentation writing is both powerful and limited by > the same thing: its free-form nature and the fact that anyone with > access can contribute. Ultimately, like wikipedia, editors get involved > to structure it and guide its growth. > > In our case, we have probably already reached the point where someone > should step in and start dividing it into separate pages based on the > different sections that have already been set up. We could the replace > the base page with an intro + table of contents into the content itself. > A brief "how to contribute to this wiki" page is also useful to give > contributors a basic idea of the layout so that they can more easily > insert their contributions into the larger structure. > > If there is general interest in this sort of refactoring now, before the > wiki page itself gets really unwieldy, I would be happy to work on it. > What does everyone think? Yes, good idea. We can also have a look on XFCE in the wiki, how they do it. > > As an aside, it is for this reason that I prefer a CMS such as Drupal. > It comes with several reasonable structures, like "blog" and "book", > already available as modules. They make structuring a larger, > multi-contributor document a lot easier. The trade-off is that their > initial set up requires more effort. Yes, and also everyone has to sign up again. > I do want to avoid getting too wrapped up in site building if it takes > time away from working on the software. However, as a technical writer, > I've seen what happens to many projects where documentation is an > afterthought. It's not pretty! (8-> I would like to focus on the distro itself first and use existing channels. The documentation team could use a Drupal or something similar (even the wiki might be ok), but we need to get enough people first. I think working in a group to get the distro going and having a first release will get a lot of attention and will make more people to join hopefully. I hope to use this push then to get more focus to those tasks such as documentation as well. At first we need something to document :-) Best, Mario > >> Best regards, >> >> Mario >> >> > > Cheers > CDR > >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:08 AM, C David Rigby <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hello everyone, >> > >> > We have 54 members registered for team Lubuntu. Should we solicit or >> > nominate coordinators for the various sub-domains of activity in >> > building Lubuntu? For example, Mario has suggested we need contributions >> > in the areas of (from https://edge.launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop ): >> > >> > * packaging >> > * coding >> > * artwork >> > * documentation >> > * translation >> > * testing >> > >> > For example, looking at this list, I would feel comfortable coordinating >> > efforts on testing or documentation, because I know those areas >> > reasonably well already. I would be glad to learn about and help with >> > packaging and coding, but I do not know enough to coordinate the efforts >> > of others. I'm useless for artwork and translation. >> > >> > I'm not sure it is warranted, but with 54 members and growing, we may >> > need an "executive committee" of sorts. This would also free Mario from >> > having to micromanage all elements of activity. >> > >> > Your thoughts? >> > >> > Regards >> > C David Rigby >> > > > -- _______________________________ Mario Behling President LXDE Foundation e.V. [email protected] China +86 13717987812 Phone Forward +49 30 26547996 Germany +49 17624387682 Skype: marioberlin89 LXDE: http://lxde.org _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
