Mary Gardiner wrote:
Therefore, some notes from the perspective of someone on activities
only:
1. I did know the wiki existed.
2. I had no idea until very recently that the wiki was used in this
fashion and have never checked it. As best I can tell, activities
was never informed of this function of the wiki.
Our bad. We should have done more to facilitate that. In fact, one could
say that this year the function of activities was duplicated to an
extent on the wiki.
3. A number of event discussions, most particularly Software Freedom
Day discussion, are moved *off* activities to slug-chat "where
everyone is".
And that shouldn't happen. For SFD this year we should keep everything
on list.
4. You did not, it seems, consider your report worth posting on
activities.
Not really, I just forgot about it! :-) It should have been posted there
though, as some of it is quite appropriate to that list.
I am probably a relatively special case, in that most people interested
enough to help out are also interested enough to be on all the lists and
therefore tend to be in the loop a bit more. But nevertheless it would
be great if the committee and other interested parties could think about
having a single well-advertised forum where interested volunteers can
hang out, be it activities or somewhere else and take care to alert that
group to anything of interest. It would also be nice if there was an
active ongoing promotion of that forum so that people don't feel that
the place to reach all our keen newer community members interested in
volunteering is *slug-chat*, the "anything goes" list!
Some find it easier to post things anonymously through a browser than
shoot off an email to a list. The wiki is also handy as a static
reference for newcomers that's updated when things are decided upon or
in the works. We set up the wiki because people asked us to.
This year we'll have to deal with merging the two mediums. I think
realistically activities should remain *the* place to discuss and
organise stuff.
Something simple as sending a notification to the list everytime someone
edits the wiki would be sufficient for keeping the two sources in sync.
Pondering,
Lindsay
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