[Grassroots-l] Weekend Food for thought

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Bryan Berry schrieb:
> Christoph wrote:
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> POINT #1: ALL THE ENTHUSIASM IN THE WORLD FAILS IF IT CAN NOT BE HARNESSED.
> POINT #2: WE STILL DO NOT HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE SET OF FEDORA WORK ITEMS 
> SUITABLE FOR NEWBIES
> POINT #3: ONCE WE HAVE STRONG TASK MANAGEMENT TOOLS, WE CAN FUNNEL ALL 
> KINDS OF NEW ENERGY INTO OUR PROCESS.
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> This is dead-on. We definitely need the "Idea Funnel" proposed by Greg
> Dek. 
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> Before this though, we could benefit by having clear milestones and
> goals for content development rather than the current ad hoc approach.
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>   
>> Another thing that I've been also thinking about - but don't know how 
>> feasible it really is - is setting up mini-competitions (think 
>> "Challenge XO" or something) to get more community members involved in 
>> creating content, writing activities, documentation, testing, etc.
>>     
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> To make this useful, you will need to start w/ clear goals for the competitions
> drawn from the pilots. Otherwise, the projects will go in all different 
> directions as in Greg's Point #1
>   
Excellent point that ties in nicely with one of the things I'm going to 
mention in my short presentation during GrassCon called "Moving from 
Talk to Action" 
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GrassCon#Presenter_Sign-Up_Times): basically 
considering deployments and their feedback as somewhat of a sanity check 
and also a reference point that keeps people/contributors focused.

[talk about a shameless plug, right?]

;-)

Cheers,
Christoph

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