Hello Bryen, hello mates, Bryen M Yunashko wrote at Montag, 26. Dezember 2011, 06:48:10: > On Sun, 2011-12-25 at 17:46 +0100, Kim Leyendecker wrote: > There are several aspects to OWN that make it one of the more unique > challenges within the Project. The two that I see are 1) Ability to > get a group of people to each commit weekly to their duties, and 2) some > technical obstacles some people have faced. > > For example, I pushed for more broader OWN proofreading and Sascha has > done a great job of ensuring since then that more people are aware and > can contribute to reviewing OWN before it gets formally published. But, > the review process itself wasn't that easy for a lot of people. We > could not directly edit without knowledge of HTML and having HTML > editing software installed and going through a checkout process. For > the marketing team this was different than the standard > "edit-as-you-see-it" we experienced in such tools as ietherpad. > > Of course, ietherpad would not have been a useful tool in OWN's case. > > And to be sure, while we have seen great commitments from the OWN team, > the team itself has been rather small. That was a huge burden on those > few people, including Sascha and Satoru. > > I too agree that Satoru would be a great new lead for OWN. He's been > committed to the quality of the production and has been there week after > week. But I suggest (at the risk of bikeshedding) that we consider > the following: > > 1. Break down the various tasks within OWN production > 2. Broadly within the News Team (or even more broadly within Marketing > team), assess each task and see if we can make adjustments thus lowering > the barrier for contributions. > 3. Work in a more open manner (this is something I'm already seeing > improvements in the past few weeks.) > 4. As popular as it has been to expect a weekly edition, perhaps we > should look at ways to adjust the release schedule in order to reduce > the time-commitment burden.
Yes, i'm agreeing in all points. I've searched into our Wiki. The "old" Way to contribute and produce the OWN was through using our Wiki. Under: http://en.opensuse.org/Template:Weekly_news_full is the latest Template for the Weekly News. Maybe we can use it again. Other interesting stuff can be found in Portal:Weekly_news. cu Sascha -- Sincerly yours Sascha Manns Community &Support Agent open-slx GmbH http://www.open-slx.de (Business) http://saigkill.homelinux.net (Private) This mail is written with Balsam Professional 12.1
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