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[Andrew Ettinger <sillydeveloper@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I didn't want to tell people how they have to
> communicate. 

I'm sorry I implied that, because I know you weren't! I was just trying to take a step back and get everyone on the same page.  =) 

> I also think we should clarify whether "dev team" and "tech
> team" refer to the same team or whether they refer to two different
> teams.

I use them interchangeably at the moment. Does anyone have a preference? Obviously dev team is in the mailing list name (which was registered before I had really thought about the proper name for it)

~ Andrew

On Dec 21, 2010, at 11:50 AM, zeto28 wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 09:55:36AM -0800, Andrew Ettinger wrote:
> 
>> we should probably remove the In Progress and Task Archive from our
>> part of the forum
> 
> I agree.  I also think we should clarify whether "dev team" and "tech
> team" refer to the same team or whether they refer to two different
> teams.
> 
>> Second, we have a lot of other teams that are working on a lot of
>> other things. You can see that by the sheer number of boards we have
>> on the forum. The other teams need a way to communicate who is working
>> on what, and the forum provides an easy way for them to get organized
>> and provides visibility for who is working on what (the 'in progress'
>> area; completed tasks go into the archive; etc). They will need to
>> figure out their own best practices for how they work -- legal, the
>> art department, and the bloggers are going to work differently than we
>> do and probably differently from each other. I'm just trying to
>> provide them with some initial guidelines to get their organizational
>> juices flowing.
>> 
>> A listserver for those teams is just another tool for them to organize
>> around. They will need to figure out if that fits into their process,
>> if at all.
>> 
>> Since teams are 'self organized', we need a way to rapidly see their
>> processes. My expectation is that each team will maintain a wiki page
>> that gives the current ways in which they are organized, so that as
>> they evolve we have a standard document that we can reference (and new
>> volunteers can reference) to get involved. Eddie has been working on
>> giving an initial shape to these pages to help them get started.
> 
> I agree with that - I didn't want to tell people how they have to
> communicate.  I just wanted to make sure that how they do it is written
> down somewhere easy to find so a potential newcomer can just look up how
> to get in touch with a certain team.  Urging the team leaders to add
> this info to the article "Volunteer Resources" (and keep it up to date
> there) would clear this up.
> 
> zeto
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