On 06/01/2014 01:31 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> Joe Brockmeier wrote:
>
>> I'd be interested in helping this month, with an eye to doing the report
>> manager work for July and perhaps onwards from there.
>
> Wow, what a recruit -- thanks for stepping up, Joe! With your background in
> tech journalism, you're extremely overqualified for the Report Manager's
> editorial aspects.
>
> I look forward to supporting you this month and in July as well. As far as
> ongoing, let's revisit after the July report. The report is a pretty big
> production, and we've been working towards building a pool of people who can
> rotate in so that no one person burns out.
>
> John D. Ament replied to Joe:
>
>> Great to hear! Do you want to do the report manager piece or the
>> shepherd manager piece?
>
> John, I'm not totally clear on how you envision divvying up responsibility.
> Here's how we've done things before:
>
> mechanical -- Send report timeline email.
> mechanical -- Assign podlings which do not report to "monthly".
> editorial -- Assemble list of releases.
> editorial -- Create podling summary.
> editorial -- Write narrative, misc, legal, infrastructure, etc. sections.
> mechanical -- Normalize report formatting
> mechanical -- Send "shepherding" email.
> Chair -- Deliver report to Board.
> mechanical -- Prepare next month's report template.
>
> It seems to me that your "shepherd manager" partially overlaps the
> "mechanical" responsibilities laid out here.
>
> Joe, what would you like to take on?
Out of this list, I can take on:
editorial -- Assemble list of releases.
editorial -- Create podling summary.
editorial -- Write narrative, misc, legal, infrastructure, etc.
sections.
Best,
jzb
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