Re: [Ekiga-list] Let's spread Ekiga : volunteers ?

[John B <yochanon localnet com>]

On Monday 12 February 2007 15:33, Damien Sandras wrote: 

> Sending again.
>
> Le lundi 12 f�ier 2007 �2:32 +0100, Damien Sandras a �it :
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > Most of you already know that I want to reorganize the Ekiga team to
> > bring fresh air into the project.
> >
> > The current active project leaders including myself would like o
> > concentrate on what they do best : coding, packaging, ...
> >
> > Consequently, we would like to "hire" new contributors who will help the
> > current team.
> >
> > Here is the list of tasks I have identified, with the proposed
> > "maintainers".
> >
> > 1) CODING
> > ---------
> >
> > Moving Ekiga to the 3.00 release is not a small task. People
> > coordinating this task are Damien Sandras, Julien Puydt and Jan
> > Schampera. New coders are welcome.
> >
> > 2) BUG TRIAGING
> > ---------------
> >
> > We are receiving bug reports, as any software would. There is a
> > preliminary task before accepting a bug report. This task includes :
> > checking for duplicates of that bug report, trying to reproduce it,
> > making sure that all the relevant information has been given by the
> > reporter and closing old bug reports.
> >
> > Currently, Julien, Jan and myself are doing this task with the GNOME
> > bugzilla team. The best would be that some new persons take that task
> > into their responsability and that we only do "level 2" support for
> > those bugs.
> >
> > 3) DOCUMENTATION / FAQ
> > ----------------------
> >
> > Writing Documentation on the WIKI and updating the FAQ is a hard job. It
> > helps new users with a minimum knowledge to step in and make the
> > userbase grow.
> >
> > I propose Yannick as responsible of this task. Yannick is doing an
> > incredible job in the Ubuntu community. Native speakers will be required
> > to help him in his job.
> >
> > 4) MANUAL
> > ---------
> >
> > I am the one to write the manual of Ekiga when there is a new release.
> > Christopher Warner and Matthias Redlich wrote the first version of the
> > manual. Ekiga 3.00 will require major updates and a new manual.
> >
> > We are looking for volunteers for that task too.
> >
> > 5) PACKAGING
> > ------------
> >
> > Kilian is the current maintainer for http://snapshots.seconix.com.
> > New architectures, new distributions should be supported and added to
> > our list. Kilian will need help for that.
> >
> > 6) WEB SERVERS
> > --------------
> >
> > Having a professional look for http://ekiga.net and http://ekiga.org is
> > mandatory for our image.
> >
> > Fabian Deutsch will coordinate the work for http://ekiga.org, the new
> > site will be based on Media Wiki.
> >
> > We need somebody for http://ekiga.net. It will either require writing a
> > skin for SERWEB or writing new code to handle registrations and welcome
> > the user. Currently, http://ekiga.net is very limited.
> >
> > What could be done is incorporating the user signup into
> > http://ekiga.org and have one unique site with a global offer. Ekiga.org
> > would also give information about the Ekiga.net service but there would
> > be no specific site for ekiga.net. We need volunteers for that and
> > Fabian needs help.
> >
> > 7) WORD OF MOUTH
> > ----------------
> >
> > We need somebody to coordinate the "press" team. More articles about
> > Ekiga, more hype, spread it !
> >
> > That is an important part of every project. It needs volunteers.
> >
> > Thanks for reading me !

    I'd like to help, but I really don't know how to do any of the listed 
things (other than just reporting bugs as they come up and spreading the word 
about Ekiga) :-(
  Writing, even e-mails, just isn't even close to being a strongpoint for me.