Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: > > That's totally acceptable as a direction. The reason I asked is that your >> original draft looks rather engineering-focused. The release cycle is >> interesting to engagement contributors, but I'm not sure the specifics of >> the release schedule are the main pieces of information they need. >> >> Yes, I was just looking at the teams and then trying to map it to our > release cycle. So, yes it was engineering focused from the point that I > wanted to contributors to know how every team fits into the release. >
To be clear - I do think that a nice graphic of the release schedule would be useful, but it might be better to target that at coding contributors. > It might be a good exercise to review what we think the most critical >> pieces of information are for new engagement contributors who are >> completely new to GNOME and Free Software. Things that come to my mind are: >> > > Yes! > > >> >> * We produce two releases a year, March to September and September to >> March. >> * GNOME doesn't have its own product: distros ship our code. >> * Different companies and volunteers work on the project. >> * Diverse teams and activities are involved in producing our releases - >> documentation, translations, accessibility, design, QA, etc >> * The main activities that the Engagement Team does, and the times >> throughout the year that they happen. >> > > It would be nice to also add the critical conferences that we attend like > FOSDEM. I'm not sure how to describe our social media activities, but > likely we will need another infographic. > I added FOSDEM. I think that the key missing thing now is a visualisation of the main areas and tasks that the Engagement Team works in. That probably needs more expressive visuals... > I've had a rough go at sketching out an infographic that communicates some >> of this information. Some things are missing, and some parts are quite >> rough: >> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5031519/gnome-year-infographic.png >> >> > This is excellent actually, way way better than anything I would have come > up with! Thank you! I would like to see the months stand out just a tad > more. There was a little bit of confusion on which direction I should be > reading since I didn't initially interpret the solid circle as a > terminator. But otherwise, it is pretty good. > I'm no visual designer, so this is really just a concept. I'd be happy to share the source with anyone who wants to hack on it. Allan
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