Steve, as a user, but not a maintainer, of the site you have my support (please fix the job board).
+1 FWIW Naomi On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Most of you will be aware of the recent thread on the psf-members list. I > copy the latest message from a board member and will intersperse my remarks > therein. > > Begin forwarded message: > > *From: *Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> > *Subject: **Re: [PSF-Members] Why are we having people register at > python.org <http://python.org>* > *Date: *January 4, 2015 2:08:18 PM GMT > *To: *"Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info> > *Cc: *PSF Members <psf-memb...@python.org> > > On 4 January 2015 at 21:13, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 09:36:58PM -0600, VanL wrote: > If the bottleneck is us, then what are we doing about it? I know the > board members are busy, and may have other priorities, and that's okay, > but can't they delegate? > > > That's the brutally hard part of the problem: defining the ground > rules for a delegation and wrangling the subsequent process of > selecting a suitable candidate is almost certainly going to involve > even more work than talking to PE/RevSys every week regarding the > board's current priorities. > > I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that my extensive PSF experience > and my reasonable level of web technology knowledge would make me a > suitable candidate. > > However, I realised during this discussion that it doesn't actually > have to be a board member that writes such a document. I'd been taking > it for granted that that was necessary, but I now believe that > conclusion to be incorrect: someone else could write a website project > management proposal based on the RFP and community feedback, and > submit it to the board as a grant proposal. > > True. This email seeks to persuade you to support a proposal to the PSF > board for onward active management of the python.org web site only > embedding that notion. The infrastructure appears to be perfectly > adequately managed, so the tasks facing us are (I would suggest) principally > > * progressing the task list on behalf of the board with the external > contractors > * suggesting new CMS functionality to allow much easier editing of > specific content areas > * recruiting and organizing content editors > * curating content not handled by other editors, as a backup > > The parts of such a process that would specifically need board > involvement are any final yes/no decision (as it would take a board > resolution to put any proposal into formal effect), and any parts of > the proposal that involve changing the communications arrangements > with PE/RevSys (and hopefully they would be open to participating > directly in any discussions of a community proposal on the > pydotorg-www mailing list). > > Should the board wish to retain direct communication with the PE/Revsys > team that would be OK, but I imagine they'd be just as happy to delegate > that relationship to the "webmaster". > > I would have expected that the board would have started a discussion > here to ask for a volunteer to take over management of the project and > report to the board from time to time. There's plenty of things to > discuss: what the manager is expected to do, make design decisions or > just prod the web devs and ensure they keep moving? How often do they > report to the board? Is there a stipend for the person doing this or is > it an unpaid volunteer job? > > > If such a role description could be developed through an open, > collaborative process on the pydotorg-www mailing list, I believe that > would be a potentially great outcome. As you say, quite a bit later > than would be desirable, but still a positive way forward that could > resolve some of the current challenges around site governance. > > So, where do we go from here? I'm prepared to commit effort (more than I'd > be paid for, if experience is anything to go by) to see this move forward. > Do I have any support? > > regards > Steve > -- > Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com +1 571 484 6266 @holdenweb > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pydotorg-www mailing list > pydotorg-www@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www > > -- Naomi Ceder https://plus.google.com/u/0/111396744045017339164/about
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