Hello again all,
I have spent considerable time today trying to reorganise our pages on
meta to make them more useful, and I believe I have implemented many
of the suggestions made at last night's meeting. All of this is not
set in stone of course, this is a wiki and improvements on my attempts
are welcome.
=== Membership of ComProj ===
The membership page has been redesigned and wiped, reducing the only
current members of ComProj to Sandy, Cary and me. This is an attempt
to remove inactive members from the list - while I have no problem
with people lurking on the mailing list list, there is no point in
being on the list on meta if you cannot accept work. So, I invite
everyone to list themselves back on the list, filling in the
information across the table (feel free to omit fields for privacy)
and putting yourself in the right category of member.
The other change to this is that new membership is 'self-service' -
people can add themselves without my intervention, because it is
pointless now the document is public.
=== Project management ===
I have prepared a new system for organising projects with templates,
listing and archiving. Projects can be listed by anyone and will move
through stages of assignment until they are ready to work. Please see
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communication_Projects_Group/Projects>
for further details on this.
What needs to happen now is that all existing projects need to be
placed on this new system. This means adding the template to the top
(try creating a new project using the input box, without pressing
save, to see this) with the active status and listing on the projects
page under active. I am requesting ComProj's help with doing this, so
please look at your projects and move them to the right place.
=== ComProj meta pages organisation ===
I have created a navigation bar which links all of our pages together.
Feel free to use it.
As always feedback and outright refusal welcome!
Sean
On 29/08/2007, Sean Whitton <sean(a)silentflame.com> wrote:
Hello all,
Tonight we had a very successful IRC meeting in the ComProj IRC
channel and I think that several decisions were reached that should
help the future of the group. I will detail these below. Because not
all members were present, please feel free to give your comments on
the list here, and if you disagree with the conclusions we drew,
please say so.
The first item was ComProj's current membership roster. I pointed out
that the private spreadsheet containing the information provided when
people join ComProj was a bit pointless as it remained private and so
we agreed it should be put on meta. However, it does contain some
confidential information, namely e-mail addresses, real names and some
brief real life bios. Since we do not want to offend anyone, I intend
to filter these out until I get confirmation from individuals that
they are happy with their information being listed. I will keep you
informed about how I get along with this.
The next item was ComProj's organisation. schiste suggested that we
get people involved with the group as project managers and just that -
people who may not really be appropriate for doing projects
themselves. He said that lots of people who do communications work do
not like project management, so this would allow them to just get on
with their specialisation. schiste volunteered to try to find a pool
of project leaders from across Wikimedia. Please let him know if you
are interested.
We now hope to have projects being assigned leaders (the idea is that
co-ordinators (me, Sandy, Cary) will do this) and then work can begin.
I aim to do some restructuring of our pages on meta tomorrow so that
this can be slotted in. Hopefully, this will mean that people will get
chance to work at something they really want to do and projects can be
completed in a more timely manner.
As chair I will still be trying to pull stuff together by arranging
and organanising meetings and attempting to liaise between project
leaders etc. which I think is working reasonably well. It should be
made clear that even though we now have three layers of co-ordinators,
project leaders and members, everyone within ComProj is most
definately equal - it's just that we are doing different jobs.
Managing a project, for example, is a skill in the same way graphics
designing or writing is.
Again, please feel free to offer comments. I will be updating you as I
work on our pages on meta, which I would hope we start to use more.
[[m:User:Sean Whitton]]
ComProj chair