On 3/12/11 9:20 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Jesse, first off I do have a question for you I stupidly didn't think to > ask, because I made some assumptions: > > - the person you talked to, were they a Fedora contributor or a Fedora > user? The person is a Fedora user who was looking to become a contributor (of at least an opinion). > > - what he was trying to accomplish - cite a series of complaints? What > would have been the appropriate place to ferry him off to? He was trying to understand why a set of decisions had been made which led to something which he felt the need to complain about. He wanted to offer his opinion as a long time user. He had opinions about the leadership or the direction of the project. I think he should have wound up on F-a-b list. > > My assumptions were that it was a contributor, and she or he wanted to > cite some complaints that would have been appropriate to bring up on > this mailing list here (advisory-board@). Are these assumptions correct? Almost :) > > On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:51 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: >> Beyond the general statements above, I do not have specific suggestions >> on what content should be up there, although I did speak briefly with Mo >> and she has some ideas she'll reply with once she is no longer traveling. > > Some goals I think that might be good here: > > - Somewhere on fedoraproject.org (it seems the 'About' page/section > would be most appropriate) a user could learn more about our governance > structure and get deep linked into the appropriate wiki pages / blogs / > etc. That would help. > > - When you go to the Overview of Fedora on the wiki (which is linked to > fairly widely), there's a section on governance. A user from this page > should be able to access a 'governance' page with an org chart that deep > links into each of the Board / FESCo / FAmSco pages. That would be awesome! > > - (I know this is pipe-dreamish, but maybe less so now with Zarafa) > Users can access a project-wide schedule that includes public board > meeting times from the Board wiki page. > > Where else would someone expect to read about the structure of the > project's governance? Maybe a fiiter nav item on the web site in > addition to the about page shout-out? > > ~m > > p.s. One cool idea would be to have an RSS plugin for media wiki (I've > used one before on my own wiki so I know it works) and have that hooked > into the board's blog and display it on the board wiki page... > > _______________________________________________ > advisory-board mailing list > advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
