On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Alexandre Franke <afra...@gnome.org> wrote:
> Hello! > > This is a bit of a rant[^1] but more importantly a call to fix a > problem that appeared recently. > > Let me start by commending the engagement team for the work that’s > been done with the targeted events initiative. It is awesome to see > coordination happening around that and how we can be more effective by > making such strategic decisions. > > However, İ'm a bit sad about the wiki situation which is a bit of a > mess. The main issue is that we already had the Events namespace and > it is not being updated as part of the initiative. Whenever we do > attend an event listed on the TargetedEvent main page, it should be > added to the Events web page. > > * Engagement/TargetedEvents is difficult to get to by browsing links > from the home page (and that is fine). It is a work document and not > something we necessarily need to expose to the outside world more than > it currently is. > * Events is really easy to find (linked to from the Home page) and > serves as our public archive. We should aim to make it comprehensive > and accurate. It serves many purposes, like showing off how active we > were, documenting what we actually did (handy when you write things > such as the annual report) and have a reference for organizing other > events later. > > Some time ago there was a huge amount of work to make the wiki tidy > and this reorganization (led by Allan if memory serves me well) > resulted amongst other things in the current form of the Home page. > Let’s try and keep the wiki in a good shape! > > We need people to step up and volunteer with the following action items: > Hi I can help with that if you guide me. > > ACTION: go through the list of events at > https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TargetedEvents/2017 and make sure > the status (attended, didn’t attend) is accurate > ACTION: go through the list of events at > https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TargetedEvents/2017 and make sure > the ones e attended are reported back to https://wiki.gnome.org/Events > ACTION: for each event of > https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TargetedEvents/2017 that has a > subpage in the TargetedEvents namespace (e.g. > https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TargetedEvents/2017/OpenSourceBridge), > move the page to the Events namespace if appropriate (with wiki > redirection directive) > > This isn’t terribly complicated and mostly requires time to do it. > Don’t let things like “I don’t know how to create a redirection” stop > you, people can help you on the engagement channel. > > Cheers, > > > [^1]: well since I finally got my “old fart” sticker at GUADEC, I > guess I’m entitled to it! > > -- > Alexandre Franke > GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director > > _______________________________________________ > engagement-list mailing list > engagement-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list >
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