Re: Annual Report Status?

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

On 02/28/2012 12:37 AM, Karen Sandler wrote:
> On Mon, February 27, 2012 5:00 pm, Brian Cameron wrote:
> > On 02/27/12 03:50 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> > > IMHO, it's better not to have "homework" articles - if a team
> > > doesn't have anything compelling to write about, they shouldn't
> > > be in the report.

...

> > But we definitely should not be wasting our time waiting around
> > for teams that cannot get their act together.
>
> Actually, everyone's busy, so I think it often helps to put something
> together from materials they've written already and then see if it can be
> updated and improved by the team! Annual reports should be good to read,
> but they also need a comprehensive overview of what our organization has
> been up to in the period, even if there are teams that are not excited
> about writing stuff up.

To explain what I had in mind:

I don't want to paint this as "Lazy teams, not sending in their reports" 
- that would be homework, and wouldn't make the report better.

What I would like to have is an editor who either (a) asks what's been 
happening that's cool, or (b) looks through blog posts and articles and 
figures out what would be compelling, and then either ask people to 
write something specifically about that, or (as Emily has been doing) 
writing something short about it, and asking people to review and edit.

In brief:
 - Start from something worth talking about
 - Figure out content around that

So what we're talking about, for example, might be Igalia's investment 
in accessibility (hiring Joanie, API as a11y maintainer, and all the 
great work they're doing) rather than getting "the accessibility team 
report". Or we might have an article on how much users like Mallard 
documentation, and a short tutorial on how to document a module, rather 
than "the documentation team report".

Just a couple of examples off the top of my head on how I think we 
should be approaching it.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
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