Mchua/Daily reports/2009-06-08

Monday

Weekly CommArch call-in
Dropped Jono an email to find out how we can help with CLS (Mako doesn't know either.)
Got swag donated for POSSE! O'Reilly rocks!
Chatted with Sebastian to make sure we are set with the Edu SIG and POSSE spin.
- Both those pages have been overhauled pretty substantially. I plan to use them as examples of good - or at least becoming-good - wiki pages later.
- The spin has also been blogged.
- And announced on the POSSE list for feedback.
- Also, can I say again that Sebastian is awesome?
responded to all the RH intern feedback on POSSE. Yay more leads!
- Does anyone have access to a paper called A managerial overview of open source software by Sandeep Krishnamurty? It was recommended by the MBA interns.
took a quick pass/listen through what's happening with Fedora docs/marketing to get context for website work.
read Karsten's and Greg's book (outlines) over lunch. Next pass will contain commentary.

edits to Greg's edu strategy slides
fold this and this into notes on this - proceeding slowly as I learn my way around.
followed up with Marsee on POSSE swag. Yay O'Reilly! (Yes, I'm doing a lot of rejoicing. I have a lot of happiness. Get used to it. ;)
inbox zero! inbox zero! ahahaha! (This will last... about 2 minutes.)
lunch with Mo; talk Fedora website - see notes here and here
and then introduced myself to the website team, and otherwise joined it (except for group membership, which I will request as soon as I have actually Done Something Real.) (Update: actually, I think I'm moving fast enough to ask for this. Done.)
started edu sig spin production work with Sebastian. (oi, I want momentum to build faster here...)
made some wiki shortcuts to get around easier, shared them
got the edu sig's pages into (what I think is) wiki standard goodness, see Talk:SIGs/Education#Following_wiki_standards - asking ianweller to take a look and see if it's done right, also sent to edu sig and wiki team.

Greg's slides on edu strategy, again
- and again
- and again (but really, I think I'm done now)
more website conversations
- attacked tasklist with Ricky. now with actual useful information!
- met Mark - pinning down a first shot at a concrete goal and a first round of deliverables to move towards them
- update meeting scheduled for Fri 1800UTC #fedora-websites, future meetings being scheduled
- websites game plan drafted, in many conversations, slowly being filled in as bits and pieces by other people... ;)
prep for POSSE call tomorrow
Greg beat me on following up with Kara on POSSE press, but watching that ready to ping again if needed
played piano like a maniac - first jam session of the summer!

another overly ambitious "hey Kara, here are lots of academic publications!" email...
POSSE chat with ctyler, humph - logs sent to posse2009 and commarch list. We're looking good; there are no blockers that aren't en route to being totally fixed by next week.
- followup with mmcgrath on VMs
- followup with Kim/Colby on brand/video presence (again, Greg beat me to this, dammit ;)
- POSSE update to planets TOS, Fedora
commarch has gotten website updates (I still have to make sure the websites wiki reflects these... will just do that at tomorrow's meeting since there'll be more updates then)
email
...geez, what else did I do today? I guess I didn't do a great job of keeping track today. (I think the answer was "a lot of back and forth on POSSE stuff that perhaps I didn't actually need to do *right then*, in retrospect." How realtime should transparency actually be?)

introduced Marsee and Karsten
websites "meeting"
- websites wiki page should be shiny and updated
- Make sure Websites meetings start (poking ricky...)
- poked Mo to make sure the Design team sends (or gets) a rep to that meeting
- Mark is learning fast
- and we're bringing older contributors out of the woodwork (juank_prada)
- Ricky has started us off on improving the "new contributor" experience
- In general, momentum-building - see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites/Brainstorms
- I dislike MediaWiki table syntax (but can't think of a better way to do it in plaintext either)
couple edu sig conversations
- spin moving forward, Sebastian making kickstart tonight
- warren is moving back to k12osn
intern community building!
- shot out an internal wiki intern projects list suggested by dlang on IRC (some folks are working on stuff that's still under wraps)
- fascinating conversation about community-building on interns IRC channel (forwarded to commarch list)
CLS call with Karsten and Jono
- CLS wiki ninjahood
- and talk ideas
remembered timesheets, bane of my life...
tried to wade through intranet docs on expense reports. Failed. I'll ask the next CommArch person I see online to point me in the right direction.
started learning how to package (but got too sleepy to finish; will do that tomorrow)