Dear Lubuntu'ers, Kindly have a read on the below Email from Ubuntu Beginner Team. The team is doing a major changes which should help each and everyone to move forward with better achievement.
If someone is interesting, please have a look at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam Your help, support and contribution is, as always, highly appreciated and needed ;) Thank you all :) Ali/amjjawad ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Duane Hinnen <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:16 AM Subject: team updates and updating the wiki To: UBT List <[email protected]> Hello team, We are working hard to trim all the fat off the team. Getting rid of unnecessary structure and overhead while making the team more efficient and effective. Some of the changes that have been taking place are: We have made the team open and no longer moderated. The membership process was a bit confusing and seemed to many to be holding people back rather then encouraging them. People felt they could not take initiative and do certain tasks if they were not Beginners Team Members. Many users who were in the membership process seeked approval from their mentor for many tasks that did not require such approval. The member approval process seemed to take more work then value provided. This was true for a lot of the systems we had in place. Their is no longer a mentor/mentee program. Assigning each interested user a team member was a lot of work and proved to be a major roadblock as users where not getting mentors or mentors where overwhelmed and not able to provide the kind of support needed. This type of mentoring program proved to be unmaintainable in not just our team. It seems that many teams in the community where not able to make this system work. The bug squad trialed a different type of system that seemed to work better. Users will be directed to use IRC and especially the mailing list to ask questions and get guidance. This will help distribute the work across the team. I want to encourage everyone to try and be more vigilant in looking for questions from members on our mailing list and in #ubuntu-beginners-team. If we all pitch in it should be less work for all of us. Additionally I would like as many eyes as possible on these correspondence to help maintain the quality of the answers given. We will rely on peer review to keep up the quality of advice given. So everyone’s help is greatly appreciated. We will no longer have separate focus groups. The overhead of running and maintaining them was greater then the value they were providing to the team. We no longer have separate IRC channels, mailing lists, and launchpad teams for the focus groups. These changes need to be reflected in the wiki. The wiki in general has been in need some work for quite some time. Many in the community and even on the team were confused about the teams processes, structure and goals. Our wiki is a valuable tool and needs to be a comprehensive guide to what our team is, what it does, and how to join us and use our teams tools and assets. We have accomplished some of this work on the wiki already. While we have made some great progress on the wiki we still have some work to do. This Saturday we will be getting together to work on the wiki. One major task we wish to accomplish this weekend is re-orientating the focus group wiki pages. We will keep the wiki pages and use them as 'quick start' guides for that area of the community. If an Ubuntu user is ready to get involved in that area off the community they should be able to go to, for example, the Bugs section of the wiki and have a roadmap for getting started contributing to that area of the community. It has been suggested we call these 'Paths', which I kind of like. So we will have a Bugs Path and a Documentation Path, etc. What is envisioned is a step by step guide for getting started in that area of the community. We will assume no prior knowledge in that area of the community, or the community at all. These pages should be valuable for users who want to work at their own pace or are finding no one available on IRC to answer questions and get them started. Me and Silverlion will be getting together this Saturday to work on these Paths pages. I want to invite anyone interested in helping with the new Paths pages to join us. We would greatly appreciate your input. -- Duane Hinnen [email protected] skype: duanehinnen -- ubuntu-beginners mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-beginners -- *Best Regards, amjjawad* *https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/* Lubuntu One Stop Thread <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1844755>| My Launchpad <https://launchpad.net/%7Eamjjawad> | My Ubuntu Forum Profile<http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=941822> **
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