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On 4 November 2016 at 11:23, Lana Brindley <openstack at lanabrindley.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> There was a long-running and wide-ranging conversation during Summit about
> community engagement in the docs team, most formally at the 'Social Things'
> session[1], and culminating in the 'Ocata Planning' session[2] on the last
> day. I suggest you read those etherpads if you weren't at the sessions.
> This was a major part of my PTL candidacy platform for Ocata, and I'm
> excited that we had so much productive conversation, complete with  some
> action items that we can implement immediately.
>
> First of all, we have seen a drop off in both docs mailing list traffic
> and docs meeting conversation over the past twelve months or so, even
> though contributions have remained steady (for the openstack-manuals repo).
> This is attributed partially to a much-improved Contributor Guide (meaning
> we spend less time on answering the same questions over and over), and but
> it's also apparently because conversation is splintering off into
> speciality team groups, rather than happening in the wider context of the
> docs group as a whole.
>
> So, while speciality teams are definitely valued and important, especially
> when it comes to directing and completing specific work items, we have come
> up with a few smaller changes we can make to try and improve our sense of
> community:
>
> * Speciality team meetings are now going to be restricted to once per
> month, or on an as-needed basis.
> * The docs meeting will change to a single Euro/APAC timed meeting, every
> second week, probably around 2100 UTC (to be  confirmed).
> * I will no longer be asking speciality team leads for a written report
> for the newsletter. Instead, please attend the docs meeting and report
> there. If you are not able to attend, you will have the option to provide a
> written report ahead of time to be presented by a proxy.
> * The newsletter will go to every second week, timed to be after the docs
> meeting, and will contain speciality team reports and other updates from
> that meeting.
>
> I would like your feedback on these changes, especially if you didn't get
> a chance to  participate in the conversation at Summit.
>
> I will be implementing these changes over the next week or so, and there
> will be further opportunity for you  to express your opinion on these
> changes as we go.
>
> Lana
>
> 1: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BCN-Docs-Social
> 2: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BCN-Docs-OcataPlanningWG
>
> --
> Lana Brindley
> Technical Writer
> Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia
> http://lanabrindley.com
>
>
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This sounds like a good direction to me. Keep up the great work everyone!

Brian
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