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["Leigh Tate" <leigh.tate@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Team,
----- Original Message -----
From: Geoff Smith
Sent: 02/10/14 09:58 AM
To: newdocs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Newdocs] Team Wiki Page Brainstorm

On 11/02/14 01:54, David Manuel Pires wrote: > Hi. > > On 10 February 2014 13:16, Leigh Tate <leigh.tate@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> David thank you for this. It's a good starting place. >> >> Svetlana, you mentioned earlier about writing up a rough draft for the >> team wiki page. That's an excellent idea. >> >> David, I agree about the contact page. It looks about perfect. >> >> I've hesitated to mention this, but if we really want to do this via IRC, >> my best time availability would be anywhere between 5 and 6:30 am EST. >> Going on daylight I have to be out tending our livestock. I know that would >> work well for David and Geoff; Svetlana I don't know about you. It's a bit >> early and way too early for anyone within several time zones west of EST. >> That's the only good uninterrupted chunk of time I have for writing and >> computer work, however. >> > That time frame works perfectly for me. > > >> Also, regarding my mention about keeping track of decisions made using >> both email and IRC, I realize IRC can be recorded. It's about not having >> the information and decisions consolidated in one place. Svetlana, you >> mentioned the bots in this regard, but since I have no experiential >> knowledge regarding that, I can't really make an intelligent response! >> > Well all the reasoning part of the work can be made on the IRC channel, and > afterwards it's just a matter of one of us writing a email to the mailing > list proposing whatever conclusion that might arise from our discussion, > including on said mail a link to the channel's log. That way everything > would be still consolidated. > > Cheers, > David > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/slickymaster > > > Hi Team, My first suggestion is that users could be invited to contribute to NewDocs on the Home Page. Perhaps a sentence something like "You are invited to contribute to NewDocs by adding your thoughts and suggestions on The discussion thread." Cheers, Geoff. 
Geoff, that would be a good way to begin to collect ideas which the team could later consider and sort out. To your succinct invitation, I would only suggest adding "...to a NewDocs team wiki..." .
>From Svetlana's rough draft, community suggestions, and the team's own good ideas we could probably develop it very nicely.
Best wishes,
Leigh