I have taken the time to write down some of my thoughts. http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/baZkHCQiMu
Maybe if anybody else has any it would be good to capture them also. I will do my best to be at the meeting tomorrow. Thanks Chris On 7 August 2010 20:27, Josh Holland <j...@joshh.co.uk> wrote: > [CCing BH directly to make sure it's nice and prominent in his inbox] > > Hi Manual-ers, > > I'm writing this email with not a little bit of concern. It's now the > 7th of August, barely more than 2 months to the release of Ubuntu 10.10 > "Maverick Meerkat", and the project feels a bit dead. > > I'm not trying to pin the blame on anyone in particular, but I think the > reasons for this are that certain people whose enthusiasm was the > driving force behind the success of the Lucid edition seem to be > spending more time writing controversial blog posts, and also the fact > that we have not had a meeting in quite some time. > > Personally, I understand that I am poor at motivating myself to do > stuff. What I think we need is a meeting ASAP to get things moving > along. Unfortunately, I'm starting to come up to a pretty busy set of > holidays with dubious internet access, so it is going to have to be > *really* soon. I'm going away Monday evening, and will not be back until > the weekend. It's then a pretty busy week including A level results (and > associated celebrations/commiserations) on Thursday and a trip out with > the Ubuntu UK folks on Saturday. Ideally, then, we could have the > meeting at some point this Monday (the 9th). I'm free all day up to > around 5.30 pm BST, so for now, I'm going to tentatively schedule the > meeting for 1500 UTC in #ubuntu-manual. Please reply to this thread if > that's unacceptable, but the important thing is to get the core team > members there. > > The agenda will include: > * Whether to continue with Lucid edition 2 or move straight on to > Maverick > * Whether it is practical to continue to wait for the collaboration > meeting with the Docs/Learning team before writing more content > * Documenting the release process more publicly and in more depth > * Detailing the process for translations > > When the project was initially formed, a lot of the controversy was not > only over whether we were filling a space that was already full, but > whether we could keep our momentum up for future releases. It's a shame, > but a lot of the prophecies are coming true. We need to get working hard > now, or it could reflect badly on the whole team. > > -- > Josh Holland <j...@joshh.co.uk> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
