We now have a new docs meeting time, every second Thursday 2100, starting next week, on 18 November.
See you there! L On 04/11/16 11:23, Lana Brindley wrote: > Hi everyone, > > There was a long-running and wide-ranging conversation during Summit about > community engagement in the docs team, most formally at the 'Social Things' > session[1], and culminating in the 'Ocata Planning' session[2] on the last > day. I suggest you read those etherpads if you weren't at the sessions. This > was a major part of my PTL candidacy platform for Ocata, and I'm excited that > we had so much productive conversation, complete with some action items that > we can implement immediately. > > First of all, we have seen a drop off in both docs mailing list traffic and > docs meeting conversation over the past twelve months or so, even though > contributions have remained steady (for the openstack-manuals repo). This is > attributed partially to a much-improved Contributor Guide (meaning we spend > less time on answering the same questions over and over), and but it's also > apparently because conversation is splintering off into speciality team > groups, rather than happening in the wider context of the docs group as a > whole. > > So, while speciality teams are definitely valued and important, especially > when it comes to directing and completing specific work items, we have come > up with a few smaller changes we can make to try and improve our sense of > community: > > * Speciality team meetings are now going to be restricted to once per month, > or on an as-needed basis. > * The docs meeting will change to a single Euro/APAC timed meeting, every > second week, probably around 2100 UTC (to be confirmed). > * I will no longer be asking speciality team leads for a written report for > the newsletter. Instead, please attend the docs meeting and report there. If > you are not able to attend, you will have the option to provide a written > report ahead of time to be presented by a proxy. > * The newsletter will go to every second week, timed to be after the docs > meeting, and will contain speciality team reports and other updates from that > meeting. > > I would like your feedback on these changes, especially if you didn't get a > chance to participate in the conversation at Summit. > > I will be implementing these changes over the next week or so, and there will > be further opportunity for you to express your opinion on these changes as > we go. > > Lana > > 1: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BCN-Docs-Social > 2: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BCN-Docs-OcataPlanningWG > -- Lana Brindley Technical Writer Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia http://lanabrindley.com
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