Re: [libreoffice-website] planned Forum - Coordinator wanted

Hi Jonathan, *,

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Jonathan Aquilina
<eagles051387@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would love to volunteer my time and services as coordinator and moderator.
> Is there somewhere which better describes the job of coordinator?

Well, not sure what is unclear, but the job of the coordinator(s) is
to create a final "concept" for going live with the forum.

Coordinator'(s') job is to make sure there are enough moderators, that
the available moderators can actually cover the topic of the forum
(i.e. prevent a wasteland areas in the forum, where only questions and
"me too" questions accumulate but nobody can give an answer).

Coordinator'(s') job is to present a initial set of Categories and forums.
I.e. it involves discussing what to include and what not to cover in
the mailinglists with the affected people. The job is to avoid endless
back-and-forth without no endresult. Reach a consensus and write it
down in the wiki.

How it is done, I don't care. Either present a suggested layout and
have people vote/start a discussion from there (probably hard to reach
all relevant people without crossposting to many lists that makes
collecting the feedback harder), or approach the "subprojects" of the
LO and have more focused "what would you like to have for $project"
discussions within the project first (that will probably lead to a
much too-long list that then has to be shrunk down). But who knows,
coordinator is free to choose whatever way suits best to reach a
consensus in a reasonable timeframe.

The job is to make sure nobody can tell "but nobody did ask for *my*
opinion" afterwards. Coordinator is to blame when the process takes
forever with no felt progress. Coordinator is to praise when the
launch of the forum is successful. :-)

ciao
Christian

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