newbie2
September 7th, 2008, 10:41 AM
Earlier I mentioned an initiative started by the Ubuntu Forums Beginner Team called “The Summer of Documentation”. With the summer pretty much over with the coming of Labor Day in the United States, The results are in and they are really not as spectacular as we had hoped.
27 Wiki pages were cleaned up, expanded and brought to “standard” by 4 people. Another page is basically completed but not finished by another author, and there is still a list of pages left to complete. This list was established as an initial sweep and we had hoped to complete much much more than we have accomplished.
So what went wrong? That’s a pretty difficult question to answer. My thoughts are that the failure of the project can be “blamed” on a few different things:
1. Failure to advertise and gain community support.
2. Not having a good plan to get workers started
3. Lack of clear cut goals and targets
4. Volunteer burnout
http://oldsoldiers.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/summer-of-documentation-ends/
#-o
27 Wiki pages were cleaned up, expanded and brought to “standard” by 4 people. Another page is basically completed but not finished by another author, and there is still a list of pages left to complete. This list was established as an initial sweep and we had hoped to complete much much more than we have accomplished.
So what went wrong? That’s a pretty difficult question to answer. My thoughts are that the failure of the project can be “blamed” on a few different things:
1. Failure to advertise and gain community support.
2. Not having a good plan to get workers started
3. Lack of clear cut goals and targets
4. Volunteer burnout
http://oldsoldiers.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/summer-of-documentation-ends/
#-o