[IAEP] community team

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 18:52, Anurag Goel <agoel23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tomeu,
> I read up a little bit about this and am willing to give it a shot. I will
> post later about specific questions I have regarding what my duties would be
> as the coordinator. I will, however, be in India all summer (June-Aug)
> working on a SoaS deployment. Consequently, I do not see myself having a lot
> of time for this position until the fall. However, if we set up
> a preliminary meeting on IRC sometime during the next several weeks, I can
> work towards some of the objectives on my own time table throughout the
> summer and continue weekly/biweekly meetings come fall. What are
> you thoughts?

Sounds pretty good already, maybe during the first meeting somebody
will volunteer to cover your place in the meantime?

Look forward to any questions you may have.

Btw, you may want to add your deployment to
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Places

Regards,

Tomeu

> Thanks,
> Anurag
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:34, Anurag Goel <agoel23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > This is definitely a great idea and will facilitate involvement in Sugar
>> > Labs for new members/volunteers - ultimately allowing for further growth
>> > of
>> > the organization as a whole. Let me know how I can help out with this.
>>
>> Hi Anurag, thanks a lot for your interest, I really think this area of
>> work can have a great impact.
>>
>> The next step is finding a coordinator that would be willing to start
>> organizing regular meetings every 1 or 2 weeks. Other tasks of the
>> coordinator are keeping the team member list updated, same with the
>> team-wide TODO list, publishing the meeting minutes on the wiki and on
>> the mailing list and making sure the team agrees on a mission
>> statement that is put on their wiki page.
>>
>> We also need to ask the Wiki team to create a new instance of the team
>> template, such as this: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Wiki_Team
>>
>> It would be awesome news if you would like to take the role of the
>> coordinator and I look forward to attend your first meeting.
>>
>> If you have time to read about the theory, here are some references:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_practice
>> http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Anurag
>> >
>> > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> following the recent interest in discussing resourcing and the teams
>> >> structure, I would like to mention again the need for a community team
>> >> that takes ownership of this area.
>> >>
>> >> Right now this work is unowned and is carried in an uncoordinated
>> >> manner by several members of our community, which is rather
>> >> unfortunate because they have several other responsibilities to take
>> >> care of and because a coordinated effort could be much more effective
>> >> in making sure that SLs is a good environment for people to work
>> >> together on furthering Sugar.
>> >>
>> >> Community management is a young discipline that is blooming strong
>> >> these days and though still a bit wild, there's even literature on it
>> >> and could be a very interesting career path. If you know someone
>> >> looking for such a challenge, please refer them here.
>> >>
>> >> Having a team that focuses on resourcing issues could be the base for
>> >> more stable growth in SLs.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Tomeu
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>> > Anurag Goel
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