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lukacumeeting?12:02
hno73Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Meetings/Agenda12:02
lukacuartnay?12:03
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hno73Trying again: Hi!12:11
hno73The agenda is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Meetings/Agenda12:11
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hno73I got one positive comment to the wiki restructuring and zero negative on the list12:13
hno73so I take that as 'ok, we don't mind' :)12:13
kafeinei'm ok12:14
kafeine:D12:14
hno73Right, then we can move to point 2 :)12:15
lukacu:)12:15
lukacugreat12:16
hno73The todo list12:16
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hno73jsgotangco: hey!12:16
jsgotangcohno73, hi!12:16
jsgotangcoumm is there a meeting?12:16
kafeineyep12:16
hno73art team meeting?12:16
jsgotangcooh cool12:17
=== jsgotangco didn't know
jsgotangcobut since i have admin to art.ubuntu.com might as well jump in :)12:17
lmanulHi all :)12:17
=== lmanul is Manu Cornet
hno73jsgotangco, lmanul: see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Meetings/Agenda12:17
=== jsgotangco is JeromeGotangco
hno73Hi lmanul :)12:18
kafeinemm, hno73, can you point me to the ToDo since the link at the Agenda seems broken12:18
hno73kafeine: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/TodoList12:18
hno73sorry, that's my 'restructuring' :p12:19
jsgotangcoouch that's a lot of TODO12:19
hno73or, actually, lazy wiki markup12:19
hno73jsgotangco: exactly. unmanageable12:20
hno73more of a general braindump area really12:20
jsgotangcocan we make some realistic milestones per dapper dev release?12:20
kafeineand distribute them?12:21
hno73I think we should make a few simple recommendations for the distro team12:21
hno73a recommended icon set, wallpaper etc.12:22
jsgotangcowell obviously we can't be able to do all of this with such short time and manpower12:22
jsgotangcoi'd like to have better AUC action too12:22
hno73test them together, find out what is missing12:22
jsgotangcobut the approval process is so tedious12:22
jsgotangcodoes AndyFitz stil do stuff for Ubuntu?l12:23
hno73better AUC action meaning better tools or more admin work put in?12:23
hno73I'm not sure12:23
jsgotangcohno73, well approving and uploading submitted art is rather cumbersome for now, i've only did it like twice12:24
hno73yeah. fixing it is non-trivial though. My recommendation would be a moin-based site12:25
hno73It's slightly less elegant, but more flexible12:25
hno73there are no admin bottlenecks12:25
hno73anyone can upload content12:25
jsgotangcoand we're used to moin clean up12:25
hno73right. and we seem to be converging on moin as a standard now12:26
hno73http://www.ubuntu.com/ is moin12:26
jsgotangcowas it completely migrated?12:27
hno73The main thing that would be missing would be voting and ranking of stuff12:27
hno73it is now, yes12:27
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hno73if you didn't notice, it means it went fairly well :)12:28
jsgotangcowell i knew from the beginning we were moving to moin, i mean we've worked in orchard, i can see the similarities :)12:28
=== jsgotangco thinks the best way to jumpstart art team is to define goals and plan of action for dapper
hno73About the team itself. I guess volvoguy was leading it, but isn't well. Has someone else taken over for now or is it floating freely ATM?12:30
jsgotangcono idea12:30
=== hno73 agrees with jsgotangco
jsgotangcothe TODO we have on the wiki is a good start, but not a great staging area12:31
hno73So, proposals for dapper goals?12:31
hno73some items like the wallpaper and icons will be contracted out at least in part12:32
jsgotangcomost likely we'll not diverge much from GNOME HIG standards12:32
hno73but there is example content and secondary themes12:32
jsgotangcois art responsible for sample content?12:32
hno73No, I am :)12:32
=== jsgotangco thought it was jdub's area
hno73but, it's an easy place to contribute12:33
jsgotangcosample content - what does it consist? even media files?12:33
hno73making some nice OOo documents should be a doable task12:33
jsgotangcooh okay, so its an artwork task for dapper12:34
hno73yes, but music and video is difficult to find in high quality + free license12:34
hno73it can be, if we decide so12:34
jsgotangcohow about just doing some desktop action in istanbul?12:34
hno73we can select 5-10 wallpapers for a start12:34
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kafeineistanbul is pretty buggy12:35
hno73that sounds good, any experience with that12:35
hno73mhz!12:35
jsgotangcowell i would think volvoguy's svg wallpapers are a good candidate12:35
mhzhno73: yes, I just got back to the computer12:35
mhzhno73: sorry12:35
jsgotangcoi can try the one in dapper, the one in breezy isn't so hot12:36
hno73mhz: no worries, nice to see you :)12:36
mhzthx12:36
hno73I just got back from the distro-sprint of death https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2006-February/000066.html12:37
jsgotangcooh the distro sprint of death is now the common tag for it12:37
hno73jsgotangco: sounds cool. We should have a soundtrack over it12:37
hno73yeah, I think so12:38
hno73It might have been food poisoning. I seem to have escaped ok12:38
jsgotangcothats too bad12:39
jsgotangcome and sabdfl were talking about it yesterday (he was here)12:39
hno73Ah right, how was your meeting?12:39
jsgotangcopretty good he's upbeat12:39
jsgotangcoi got to meet malcolm and hande too12:40
jsgotangcothey're in tokyo now12:40
hno73cool, hectic schedule12:40
hno73So, I've been playing with icons today. Who has tried Yasis?12:40
hno73what do you guys use?12:40
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jsgotangcoYasis is an icon theme?12:41
=== mhz uses Tango and Gartoon
=== jsgotangco has only used Tango
hno73yes http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon/116812:41
KyralTango++12:41
jsgotangcobut it doesn't fit our brown scheme12:41
Kyraland ++Tango :D12:41
jsgotangco(needs working)12:41
hno73Tango is a bit too blue for Ubuntu atm though12:41
hno73I like it otherwise12:41
KyralGood for Kubuntu?12:42
jsgotangcoits preety neat for KDE12:42
hno73and Gartoon is of course 'owned' by ubuntu12:42
jsgotangcobut the greenish stuff makes it look a bit like SuSE12:42
hno73KDE has a wider choice of suitable sets IMO12:42
hno73because kubuntu use a standard colour scheme (blue)12:43
hno73while ubuntu went revolutionary brown12:43
mhzwell, IIRC, Xubuntu default will be Tango12:43
jsgotangcothat would be nice12:44
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jsgotangcoare we really getting a Xubuntu iso? sabdfl was pitching it already12:44
klepasmoin moin12:44
mhzjsgotangco: "pitching it"12:44
mhz?12:44
mhzklepas: moin12:44
jsgotangcomhz, he added it on the list of other ubuntu-based distros in his presentations12:45
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mhzoh, cool12:45
hno73So, IMO a task for the art team can be to test various icon themes and form an recomendation12:45
jsgotangcowell ive already tested tango...12:46
jsgotangcoit seems to be the future12:46
hno73Yasis is the most suitable I've seen so far12:46
jsgotangcoare you thinking of adding another iconset to the distro?12:46
hno73true, but we'd need to change quite a few of the blue icons12:46
mhzany news from the "pros" hired by Canonical?12:46
hno73jsgotangco: I'm thinking of recommending a new default for dapper12:47
jsgotangcomhz, what they've done mostly are backgrounds12:47
jsgotangcohmm12:47
mhzjsgotangco: oh, will they do icons?12:47
hno73mhz: there are people contracted to work on icons, but there isn't time to do a whole set12:47
mhzjsgotangco: oh, have they choosen an icon set?12:48
hno73so we have to build on an existing one12:48
hno73Tango is a good option12:48
klepashey guys12:48
jsgotangcoi can look into it this weekend12:48
hno73Yasis and nouveXT are others12:48
klepasi've talked to Andy, Mark and Jeff about this artwork problem12:48
jsgotangcoand?12:49
hno73klepas: recently?12:49
klepasyes12:49
klepasjust last week12:49
klepasand in person12:49
hno73cool12:49
jsgotangcoLCA?12:49
klepasyep12:49
jsgotangcoso you saw sabdfl's ravishing new haircut12:49
klepasnews might not be to welcome though12:49
hno73klepas: go ahead12:50
klepasCanonical has their own hired graphic artists12:50
jsgotangcooh we're aware of that12:50
klepasin fact they are most likely going to hire more, especially one to make an icon set12:50
klepaswe won't be able to say "here's our work" and it will be included12:51
hno73right, but we can still make recomendations12:51
klepaswe can still get stuff into mainstream12:51
hno73klepas: we never would though12:51
klepasif it really good12:51
klepasmostly in terms of splashes, GDMs and wallpapers12:51
hno73there is always a process of evaluation and comments, etc12:51
klepasthat is true too12:52
klepasthis basically means we can probably forget trying to regulate all art in ubuntu12:52
klepasat least for now12:52
hno73That happens with the hired pros too, but often by phone or in person12:52
jsgotangcohey we still have community12:52
hno73so it's faster12:52
klepasyep12:52
jsgotangcowe can put more resource to AUC12:53
klepasbut for example, our art could still easily get in12:53
hno73I think we need to identify which areas we can and should focus on 12:53
klepaseven if it is not the default wallpaper for example12:53
klepasit could still come in as one of the two or so others12:53
hno73exactly12:53
klepashno73: wallpapers, splashes, GDMs and that's about it12:54
hno73we are also adding 'Example Content'12:54
hno73which can include wallpapers and other images12:54
klepasthat does not mean that we can't do other stuff too, like GTK and metacity stuff, but stuff like the above would have a higher chance12:54
jsgotangcohno73, the example content, for example with OOo docs, we can use text from public domain12:54
hno73it would be natural to take that fro the team12:54
klepasso, basically as the art team we have a few things to do12:55
klepasfix up wiki12:55
hno73right, as a base, but we can then include artwork in the documents12:55
klepasget AUC working12:55
klepasand start doing some art :)12:55
hno73get AUC working or replace AUC?12:55
klepasi'll leave that up to your imagination12:56
klepas:)12:56
mhzand the very good thing about artwork from community is that we ALWAYS provide SVG and source files :D12:56
klepasmhz: yep12:56
klepasit would be interesting to see whether we could get the XCF or PSD file for the current breezy default wallpaper12:56
hno73I'm keen to separate the concepts of generating new art and selecting art for inclusion12:57
=== mhz hopes the pros understand they should also provide sources as thye work on Ubuntu (I am who I am because ...)
hno73the second can come from the whole FOSS world12:57
mhzalso, Artwork team can help LoCo teams 12:58
mhzthey always need artwork12:58
jsgotangcomhz, with little manpower at the moment?12:58
klepasoh12:58
klepasthere was a sort of request though12:58
mhzjsgotangco: hehehe, yes and no12:58
klepasof the art team12:58
jsgotangcowe wouldnt want to spread ourselves thin :/12:58
hno73If the art team has the view they we will create art which will eventually be included in the distro as a natural process, we will see a lot of frustration and disapointment12:58
mhzyup12:59
klepasto make and manage universe art packages12:59
klepasMark and Jeff really would love some themed art packages12:59
mhzunless we state it every where: "don't think you do this and ..."12:59
klepaslike a modern theme or a continental theme12:59
hno73fixing the accessible themes would be good too01:00
klepasyea01:00
hno73and it should be easy because those icons are very basic01:01
hno73it currently breaks in stuff like OOo and firefox01:01
hno73defaulting to normal icons01:01
klepashave you guyes seen artnay ?01:01
hno73accessibility will be installed in dapper by default, in various ways01:02
hno73So it would be nice if the themes worked better01:02
mhzhno73: that is great!01:02
hno73mhz: yep, latest news from the distro sprint :)01:03
hno73https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-February/014969.html01:03
jsgotangcothe installer stuff news is great01:04
hno73yep. Do we have anyone on the team who can do simple icons?01:05
jsgotangcowell not for this cycle01:06
klepashno73: what do you mean?01:06
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hno73klepas: what do I mean by simple icons?01:07
hno73like what is involved?01:07
=== hno73 has never made any icons :)
jsgotangcosvg makes them easier though01:08
hno73but it strikes be that the high viz ones are the easiest to do01:08
hno73it might even just be a question of tweaking, duplicating and symlinking a bit01:09
klepaswhat i meant are these icons for?01:09
hno73the accessibility icons? Install the gnome high visibility theme to see them01:09
mhzhno73: how many icons would you need?01:10
hno73they are very simple, high contast icons01:10
klepasah, okay01:10
hno73for people with poor vision01:10
mhzhno73: rephrase.. icons to launch apps or icons per every button in each app?01:10
hno73mhz: not, sure. 20-30 perhaps and then check lot's of links and refrences01:11
hno73mhz: I think 90% of the launch icons are in place01:11
hno73but only 10% of the icons in the OOo and FF toolbars01:12
hno73but it might just be a question of copying and renaming01:12
hno73Gedit has a complete set AFAIR01:12
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jsgotangcohmmm01:12
=== jsgotangco can only test for now and do AUC
hno73mhz: you know you want it :)01:13
mhzhehehehe01:13
mhzhno73: it's that in my ToDo list a Moin-a11y CSS had a priority 01:14
hno73mhz: we were also talking about possibly moving AUC to moin01:14
mhzand I guess I am already late for that :D01:14
mhzhno73: that I read, but artnay has good points01:14
hno73mhz: I've been working on that too. we need to share notes :)01:14
mhzand I have not had the chance to show off some Moin "plugins" or "macros" for handling images01:15
mhzartnay: ping?01:15
mhzartnay_: ping01:16
mhzooofff, guys... family duties calling again!01:16
mhzsorry I have to go01:16
=== mhz will read backlogs again!!
hno73OK, I think I should retire too01:17
=== mhz is tired of reading logs instead of participating
hno73Let's do another meeting again soon though01:17
hno73perhaps with a few more team members :)01:17
jsgotangcogood idea01:17
jsgotangcowho will write a report?01:17
mhzyup01:18
mhznot lukacu :D01:18
=== jsgotangco work time already
hno73:D01:18
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jsgotangcowe'll need fridge love so a report would be good01:18
jsgotangcooh mhz left01:18
jsgotangcohno73, a minute?01:19
hno73jsgotangco: yep01:19
jsgotangcoorchard TODO and target dates?01:19
hno73hm. You have a deadline soon right?01:20
hno73btw, I just moved the site today: http://www.theopencd.org/01:21
hno73finally, the wiki and website in one01:21
hno73a real moin-based CD is looking unrealistic for the next release though01:22
jsgotangcoive tried it doing it, its been trashing the cd hard01:22
hno73how many new applications did you have in mind?01:22
jsgotangcowell i was thinking of doing a spinoff for mac01:23
hno73trying to write stuff to the CD?01:23
hno73oh, right01:23
jsgotangcobut are we still including livecd?01:24
hno73no I plan to drop that now. 01:25
jsgotangcook i'll make up a list then01:25
hno73people will distribute pure live CDs anyway01:25
hno73and it makes derivatives difficult01:25
hno73plus it sqeezes the space too much01:26
hno73it was a good idea, but not that useful01:26
jsgotangcook so i'll just go wild on the orchard wiki?01:26
hno73Ubuntu is much bigger than theopencd so it doesn't really need the marketing help :)01:27
hno73jsgotangco: yes, please do01:27
jsgotangcoi'll consider pia's suggestions too01:27
hno73the edu-cd?01:27
jsgotangcowell not a separate cd01:27
hno73but more educational stuff01:28
jsgotangcowe have like 400MB+ now available :)01:28
hno73there isn't really that much good stuff for win01:28
hno73yep01:28
jsgotangcohow about open content01:28
hno73yes, the open clip art lib should go in now01:29
hno73as can wallpapers and stuff 01:29
hno73Ubuntu art team wallpapers!01:29
=== hno73 hopes inkscape is stable enough on win32 to go in now
hno73it was pretty bad before01:30
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hno73we do need to be quite careful about quality01:30
hno73ok, I should go now01:31
jsgotangcook good night01:31
hno73jsgotangco: just ping me tomorrow or whenever01:32
jsgotangcok01:32
hno73good night all01:32
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MarioMeyerealden, pong04:20
jsgotangcothere's a meeting?04:21
MarioMeyernope.. :)04:21
MarioMeyerhe just pinged me04:21
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bustacaphello all..09:52
mruizhello09:53
Ampersandhi09:53
jdonghi09:53
Bonzodoghi people09:53
lloydhi09:53
jdongso like 5 more minutes09:54
bustacapyeah, I might give it 3 ;)09:55
bustacapOk, let's start..09:58
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Bonzodoggrant09:58
Bonzodogyou here?09:58
bustacapWho is in attendance from the Ubuntu Forums admin team?09:59
jdongI am09:59
Bonzodogme and manicka09:59
Bonzodogoh sorry09:59
bustacapok, excellent09:59
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bustacapBonzodog, are you a UDSF admin?09:59
Bonzodogyes, as is manicka09:59
bustacapyeah..09:59
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bustacapthe first topic - howtos in the Wiki..10:00
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bustacapI have proposed on the agenda page - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDSF/MeetingAgenda - to bypass creating howtos in the forums and create them straight into the Wiki..10:00
mhz_meetingbustacap: yes, that's the idea.10:01
jdongWe understand that there are positives to doing so, but the forum team currently does not support doing so10:01
bustacapUbuntu Forums team: are there any proposed ideas to changing the way the howtos are currently setup?10:01
jdongfirst off, unified logins and searches are a must10:02
jdongthey need to seamlessly bridge together10:02
bustacapyes, that is a good idea..10:02
bustacapI think there might be a big push to get everybody authenticating off the Launchpad system..10:02
mhzcurrently, every person with LP account can login to wiki10:02
jdongsecondly, all howto's should be accepted; not rejected due to "debian unholiness"10:02
jdongif we all LP, that'd be great10:02
jdongbut that's not the primary concern10:03
bustacapwhat is  "debian unholiness"?10:03
jdongnot doing things the Debian way10:03
bustacapsure..10:03
jdongsuch as installing stuff by hand or from source bypassing dpkg10:03
mhzjdong: the only issue I may see is that Forum users use nicks instead of NameLastname10:03
bustacapthat's a downside of continuing the howtos in the forums..10:03
bustacapmhz, that's off topic..10:03
bustacapthe howtos need to be scrutinised by the forums team10:04
bustacapsure there is a good qa side of that, however, the Wiki documents are scrutinised by the people that are using them..10:04
jdongthey are fairly scrutinized as far as not allowing anything that blatantly damages systems10:04
bustacapKingBahamut gave me the impression that he tested most of the docs that he was assigned..10:05
Bonzodogalso the how-to's being on the forums allows for live feedback...the how-to's don't always work exactly the same on everyones system10:05
jdongKB does indeed put a lot of effort into his project, and I'm not surprised if he personally tests everything10:05
jdongBonzodog: good point; a Wiki->Forum link like what the Fridge has would be awesome10:05
Bonzodogwe actually use the user feedback as a measure of how good a how-to is10:06
bustacapBonzodog, I have proposed to place a "Discuss this page on the Ubuntu Forums" link on major Wiki pages for starters10:06
manickano one is assigned docs as such, they are scrutinized by the whole community10:06
jdongbut bustacap, what is wrong with the doc team picking "good" howto's from our forums and putting them on the Wiki?10:06
Bonzodogif it has little feedback, or a lot of criticism, we may hold it from the udsf10:06
mhzbustacap: it is not 'offtopic' for wiki howtos because using a nick like 'ZeRo-Cow' would make wiki-linking a chaos (esp. when we talk about wiki admining) and also would make users have second thoughts on credibility10:06
bustacapmanicka, isn't there an admin process involved before howtos are posted to the forums..10:06
bustacapjdong, that is "double handling"10:07
jdongbustacap: a simple "is this a howto and not a question" check; that's all10:07
jdongbustacap: you can't call it that when you are going to reject a lot of the HOWTO's as "unsafe"10:07
bustacapthe Wiki accepts all documents - good and bad - the public fixes them up10:07
jdongthe last issue then is syntax10:08
earobinsonhey10:08
bustacapsure, I understand there is a need to reject HowTos..10:08
bustacapsyntax with the Wiki?10:08
earobinsonhas the meeting started?10:08
jdongyeah, the differing syntaxes10:08
jdongi.e. users want to contribute but don't know the Wiki language10:09
Bonzodogearobinson, yes10:09
bustacapsure, there is a learning curve involved in the creation of Wikis10:09
bustacapbut it is rather small..10:09
jdongcorrect, and that learning curve is an initial barrier in making HOWTO's10:09
bustacapIMO10:09
mhzjdong: we can easily use the "tips" at bottom of every editing page10:09
bustacapjdong, to combat that, we need to make an even better Wiki syntax guide..10:10
mhzjdong: or we can suggest users to visit wiki:SyntaxReference10:10
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jdongmhz, sure, but we've received complaints about the different syntax the last time we strongly encouraged Wiki howto's10:10
Bonzodogbustacap: I have had problems today with moinmoin tags.....mediawiki at least recognises html10:10
bustacapit is a matter of people getting comfortable with the syntax10:11
bustacapmost howtos are just bullet points and a few headings..10:11
mhzjdong: oh, yes, so far there are many diff among wikis. However, Moin 1.5 incorporates a WYSIWYG editor so we can all contribute happily10:11
mhzBonzodog: yes, Moin only recognizes some html tags10:11
Bonzodogmhz: there are somethings that moin does not do though10:11
Bonzodoglike I wanted strikeout today10:12
jdongmhz: a WYSIWYG editor would be great10:12
bustacapas long as the content gets posted on the Wiki, the creator just has to put in into CategoryCleanup and then the helpers come along to clean it up..10:12
mhzyes, i know, and it doesn't do it because they released 1.5 which does it :D10:12
jdongI just have issues with how the doc team might disregard some forum howto/tips as frivolous10:12
jdonghttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=10016710:12
jdongjust an example10:12
bustacapok, looking..10:12
jdongthese kinds of mini-snippet posts really don't need their own wiki page10:13
jdongmore of an "oh cool, that's sweet" discussion than anything else10:13
mhzBonzodog: oh, my last comment was for you, sorry10:13
jdongthese seem better on the forum than on the Wiki10:13
bustacapjdong, frivolous howtos exist all over the Wiki as well, it takes a good Wiki Team to go through and integrate other people's work into the larger Wiki's10:13
earobinsonbut is there anything wrong if there is a wiki page?10:13
bustacapwe can fix those with redirects when they have been integrated with other pages..10:14
mhzbustacap: yes, actually, today there are over 4500 pages in the wiki10:14
earobinsonjust because we have extra content is not a bad thing, we just need to make sure the more important things are easy to find10:14
jdongearobinson: no, but there is also nothing wrong with redundancy10:14
mhzbustacap: and it is almost impossible to give pages lot of admin love10:14
bustacapjdong, that howto was great!10:14
jdongwe have forums and mailing lists... that doesn't mean we have to get rid of one in favor for another10:14
bustacapwe need howtos like that..10:14
BonzodogI have a better idea if I may?10:15
jdongI still think that the wiki and forums can coexist10:15
earobinsonjdong isent that the point, having them on both the wiki and forums would be  redundancy but there is nothing wrong with that10:15
bustacapno, forums and mailing lists have different roles to perform..10:15
jdongexplain10:15
Bonzodogcan I have a moment to explain?10:15
mhzshoot10:15
jdongbustacap: the forums provide support, ubuntu-users provides support, #ubuntu provides support. Difference?10:15
bustacapmailing lists are for more technically inclined people and are also used to announce changes and for team collaboration10:15
Bonzodogright, we have to accept that the udsf is not going to go away10:16
bustacapthe forums are the best 1st level support mechanism10:16
Bonzodogit will remain10:16
bustacappoint-and-click help in a web browser..10:16
jdongbustacap: so you are saying that the forum is for dumber people??10:16
bustacapjdong, no, I am saying it is the easiest method of getting help10:16
mdkeforums are easier to understand than mailing lists/irc10:17
mdkethat's what he means10:17
bustacapnot saying that technical subjects aren't discussed in the forums10:17
earobinsonits just gives more choice to the user10:17
jdongwell, in the same way posting a thread is the easiest way of letting someone know about something.10:17
jdongthat just gives more choice to the user, as well10:17
mdkeis this on the agenda?10:17
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jdongif the wiki folks want to make that a wiki page, cool -- go ahead. We'd gladly edit the original thread and link to the new wiki page10:17
bustacapjdong, I know about the ease, what I am saying is, with a little more effort, we can keep the docs manageable..10:17
earobinsonjdong yes and no, because there are so many posts on the forums if I make a post on mounting a hd it quickly gets hidden in a wiki it will always stay ontop10:18
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mdkeit's pretty clear that the forums are not good for howtos jdong. it would be really nice if the forum and wiki could work together and provide a nice combined resource, each doing what it does well10:18
mdkeideally, it would work really well like that, IMO10:18
earobinsonmdke +110:18
jdongearobinson: there are 514 forum HOWTO's. How do you keep all of them on top?10:18
bustacapcreation of howtos directly into the Wiki would be the best solution..10:18
mhzmdke: as usual +110:19
earobinsonexactly in a forum you cant, but on a wiki you can have sections that keeps the info easy to browse10:19
jdongcreation onto the wiki with discussion threads in the forum is a good idea10:19
mdkejdong, absolutely10:19
bustacapjdong +110:19
jdongI agree with that10:19
Bonzodogbustacap: as long as everytime one is created, there is a forum link already there10:19
mdkejdong, what is the status with LP authentication for the forum?10:19
manickawe already have a solution in place to better organise and archive forum data10:19
mhzjdong: we could have a CategoryForumHowto10:19
jdongmdke: ryan/ubuntugeek was on that; I don't know exactly10:19
earobinsonmdke what is LP?10:20
bustacapjdong, if we can make some progress on this with the forum admins, we should keep in touch on this matter..10:20
mdkeearobinson, launchpad10:20
bustacapLaunchPad10:20
earobinsonkk10:20
bustacapok, Restructing the Wiki10:20
Bonzodogum...if I may10:20
jdongour main concern is that howto's placed on the wiki would be removed if they don't meet a certain "quality level"10:20
bustacapmanicka, do you have any thoughts on restructing..10:20
BonzodogI have something I would like to add10:20
bustacapjdong, things don't get removed..10:20
jdongas long as you can assure us that censorship won't take place, we're pretty happy10:20
mdkejdong, not removed10:20
jdongok, /me happy now :)10:21
bustacapBonzodog, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDSF/MeetingAgenda - add a agenda item10:21
mdkewhat happens is people improve stuff if they think it's weak10:21
manickarestructuring what,, the wiki or the forum10:21
bustacapthe Ubuntu Wiki10:21
bustacapdo you have any thoughts on it..10:21
jdongmdke: ok, good. Building on old work is great, I love it.10:21
mdkejdong, there will need to be quality control, but not by removing stuff, probably by categorising it10:21
bustacapclassification and indexing..10:21
Bonzodogthis concerns all of this10:21
mdkejdong, that's not well evolved at the moment10:21
jdonglet's let bonzodog speak10:21
mdkesure, go Bonzodog 10:21
manickaI have lots of ideas, I've discussed a few on the doc-team mailing list, but they were dismissed10:21
mdkemanicka, eh? which ideas were dismissed?10:21
bustacapwell manicka bring it up here..10:21
Bonzodogright - we have to accept that the udsf will not go away right?10:22
manickait was some time ago10:22
bustacapBonzodog, can we put that on the end of the meeting agenda..10:22
mdkeBonzodog, no, that depends on your point of view.10:22
Bonzodogwe will contiinue to archive how-to's from thwe forums10:22
Bonzodoghowever I have an idea10:22
bustacapmanicka, if you can recall what was rejected, please re-raise your ideas..10:22
bustacapBonzodog, a little later in the meeting please..10:23
mdkemanicka, absolutely. If things were rejected for no good reason, tell me10:23
mdkewe want ideas to improve the wiki10:23
bustacapI am after some input from the UDSF guys at the moment, and the Ubuntu Forums, for any ideas on how to improve the Wiki10:23
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jdonghmm, one last thing, if a forum user really doesn't want to learn moinmoin, what should we do then? Post unformatted text and have others come along and fix it up?10:24
Bonzodogbustacap: the front end and editing of moinmoin was enough to put me off10:24
BonzodogI really don't like moinmoin10:24
bustacapjdong, absolutely..10:24
jdongfor you and I, it may be easy enough to learn it, but there are some users that really don't like learning new stuff10:24
Bonzodogand I have tried10:24
Bonzodogomg I have tried to use it10:25
mhzbustacap: wiki needs love, lots of it, indeed, but it is kind of difficult to provide the "best" structure mainly due to its own nature10:25
bustacapjdong, that is quite alright for users to post unformatted and place it into CategoryCleanup10:25
Bonzodogbut it's unusable10:25
mdkejdong, yes. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/forum10:25
mhzBonzodog: but have you tried Moin 1.5?10:25
mhz(WYIWYG editor)10:25
jdongbustacap: but then the whole organization just goes downhill if everything goes into the cleanup category, right?10:25
bustacapBonzodog, adding an agenda item should be just a copy and paste from the other items..10:25
mdkemhz, it doesn't matter if he has, we don't use it10:25
bustacapBonzodog, I will just put your agenda item at the end, I will bring it up then..10:25
mdkejdong, yep, that's why the category system needs some rework10:26
mhzmdke: sure, but MAYBE, he can use desktopedition and copy paste10:26
manickabustacap, we need to move away from this idea that the forums and udsf are separate entities10:26
mhz:D10:26
bustacapjdong, yes, we are looking at reworking the categories.. but it is still usable now..10:26
Bonzodogcan it please be accepted that I am an admin of the udsf?10:26
jdongjust a heads-up, one of the other admins is not happy about the current decision10:26
earobinsonmanicka, they are separate entities, they work well as a team but at the end of the day they are 2 diffent projects10:26
mdkejdong, which decision?10:27
bustacapmanicka, is this to do with the restructuring of the Wiki?10:27
jdongI am working to understand exactly what the disagreement is10:27
jdongmdke: all howtos are done on the wiki10:27
mdkejdong, oh, i think we're a long way from that decision10:27
jdongmdke:  alright10:27
jdongso let's make clear the roadmap as far as howto's on the forums are concerned10:27
bustacapjdong, but as long as we can work towards greater creation of howtos in the Wiki, it's a step forward IMO10:27
bustacapsure jdong, shoot..10:28
mdkejdong, even if everyone here is agreed, some social barriers need to be broken down before howtos are wiki-only10:28
jdongI support greater efforts to migrate current forum HOWTOS onto the wiki10:28
mdkeplus, some wiki-forum technology will be required, I think10:28
jdongthat makes all sense10:28
jdongbut I don't want to deny users from posting howto's on the forum10:28
manickaagreed jdong10:29
Bonzodogusers will always post on the forums10:29
earobinsonjdong, +110:29
jdongwe will do all that's possible to urge users to make new documents on the Wiki, but if a user so chooses, he still can put HOWTO's on the forum10:29
bustacapjdong, the interest isn't really in the existing - it is in the new HowTos..10:29
Bonzodogeven if we ask them not to10:29
mdkejdong, that's a shame, because it really isn't the best medium. and if the two resources were integrated properly, there should be no problem10:29
mhzjdong: are forums howtos html? If so, we can use Html2Moin.py10:30
jdongmhz: after rendered, they are html; internally they're vbulletin markup10:30
bustacapjdong, making the HowTo section read-only with a Quick Start guide on how to create a very basic page in the wiki is a possible solution..10:30
jdongbustacap: then users will just start making howto articles in other parts of the forum10:30
jdongthat's inevitable10:30
Bonzodogmhz: is the wiki set for u[pgrade in the near future?10:30
bustacapjdong, I know that you can't make users do anything..10:30
Bonzodogto 1.510:30
mhzBonzodog: dont know yet. 10:30
Bonzodog?10:30
mdkejdong, that depends on the level of integration10:30
mdkeif there is a howto section, which is the wiki, that won't happen10:31
jdongbustacap: currently, isolating howto's to the HOWTO area is as good as we can do as forum staff, IMO10:31
bustacapbut if there is a statement and a firm guide to tell people to create in the wiki, that is the best that can be done..10:31
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mhzBonzodog: but I can happily help you use MoinDesktop edition 1.5 and show you copy/paste into current wiki 10:31
jdongbustacap: users will start replying to questions with mini HOWTO's, and then you'll just get repetitive clutter10:31
jdongthat's why the HOWTO area started in the first place10:31
bustacapjdong, I just wish people could make more of an effort to create good doco..10:31
mhzBonzodog: desktop edition takes 1 minute to work in your /home10:31
jdongbustacap: agreed; but we can't force people to comply with our wishes ;)10:32
bustacapwell perhaps a limit on the size of the HowTos in the howto section..10:32
Bonzodogmhz: I will look, but I also deal with mediawiki10:32
Bonzodogand I am a mediawiki fanboy10:32
mhzBonzodog: I used to be a mediawiki fan too10:32
bustacapany over 4 lines will need to be created in the Wiki (something like that - needs more thought)10:32
jdonga size limit will just force people to cram more information vaguely10:32
mdkejdong, I'll say it again: that depends on the level of integration10:32
earobinsonalso the forums let people talk about the how to the wiki will not allow that10:32
jdongmdke: how far are we planning ahead here?10:33
mdkeearobinson, we can use the forums to discuss wiki howtos10:33
mdkejdong, it would take some planning yeah10:33
bustacapjdong, we could have more meetings ;)10:33
jdongas far as soon after this meeting, I can peacefully instate what I've agreed to now :)10:33
earobinsonmaybe we could convert the how to section on the forums to be, a link to you wiki how to section10:33
earobinsonmdke, I was getting at that10:33
bustacapsounds great jdong..10:33
jdongbut as far as big moves, such as no HOWTO's on forums, that's not something we can do suddenly10:33
mdkeof course not10:33
bustacapno, that's right jdong..10:33
jdongthere needs to be a smooth transition and evaluation/meetings along the way10:33
mdkeit will take lots of planning, and talking10:34
bustacapit's shift in the "culture" as well..10:34
bustacapa shift in habit10:34
bustacapthat takes time..10:34
earobinsonI think linking is the best of both worlds10:34
BonzodogI have a much better solution10:34
Bonzodoguse interwiki10:34
mdkeBonzodog, interwiki between a wiki and a forum?10:34
earobinsoninterwiki?10:35
Bonzodogto link from the main wiki to the udsf10:35
bustacapjdong, moving back to suggestions for the Wiki - I think the wiki.ubuntu.com/Forums solution isn't working and needs to rethought10:35
mdkewe're not talking about the udsf Bonzodog 10:35
Bonzodogthat way we can carry on archiving howto's10:35
Bonzodogfrom the forums10:35
bustacaphowtos are archived by being created in the Wiki10:35
Bonzodogand the wiki then provides all the vaild links10:35
mdkeBonzodog, if you do that, the howto has to be written once, and ported once, rather than just written once. You see the difference?10:36
bustacapdouble handling..10:36
jdongbustacap, along the lines of that, we can say that the Forum-Wiki delta is an effort to put the forum HOWTO's into the Wiki, correct?10:36
mdkeyep10:36
mdkeideas for improving that are welcome10:36
jdongI think we can safely say that having an intermediate wiki in a different format is truly double-handling, right?10:36
bustacapyes it is, I would propose the scrapping of the current system in favour of better help guides for Forum users in the howto section10:36
mhzmdke: and you think interwiki feature may work sanely ?10:37
manickaby the delta, you mean the pastebin that was set up10:37
mdkejdong, you may think that, but that is what the UDSF is, and it is pretty fiercely defended by the people involved10:37
bustacapjdong, instead of users posting under the forums section, they should just create their own pages in the main - I don't think we need to "sandbox" forum users' pages..10:37
bustacapmanicka, I think the "pastebin" solution isn't viable..10:38
mdkebustacap, the idea is to have an area where markup is not a problem, and people who want to clean things up can find it easily10:38
manickano, I agree10:38
bustacapusers can just create their docs inthe main - and place the doc into CategoryCleanup10:38
jdongbustacap: there's just simply a culture/awareness gap here; not all of us are educated in how the doc team organizes the wiki. that's why we've been trying to just migrate articles to the wiki and have you guys organize them10:38
manickaat least not the version that is currently on the wiki10:38
bustacapjdong, there isn't much organisation at the moment..10:38
bustacapjust a main index10:38
bustacapI am working on changing that in a big way10:38
earobinsonjdong we could sticky a link to a wiki how to on making wikis10:39
bustacapthe WikiTeam needs a Cleanup subteam along with Wiki Love Days10:39
mhz.oO(we can also include a little trick so users see this box: "Create a page here _________"10:39
jdongSome sort of documentation of how to work on the Ubuntu wiki would be great10:39
mdkeearobinson, there is one already10:39
earobinsonmy bad10:39
jdongand I don't mean just syntax; organization, layout, and everything10:39
bustacaphehe @ mhz, that is sneaky and underhand, it's good..10:39
mdkejdong, there is a sticky on the howto section. That references the relevant documentation10:39
bustacapI think mhz does have a really good suggestion..10:40
jdongmdke: that actually illustrates the wiki barrier pretty well: There's 10+ pages of reading material for contributing content to the wikis!10:41
mhzbustacap: i'll provide a url for you to see10:41
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bustacapIn the howto section, you can have a very simple form that asks for the title of the HowTo, the user places the name in there, it then redirects the user to edit mode of their title - eg. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewHowToTitle?action=edit :)10:41
mdkejdong, erm, one post on the forum, and one page on the wiki should do it 10:41
mdkejdong, but yeah, we can always work on breaking down the barrier10:41
jdongmdke: right, but the 10 pages of reading you say was "VITAL" to do?10:41
jdongthat's a part of the barrier10:41
mdkejdong, perhaps I should revisit my howto10:41
mdkes/howto/post10:41
mdkethe WikiGuide page is comprehensive enough now10:42
mhzbustacap: http://www.druidwiki.org/ See at the bottom of the page10:42
bustacapjdong, there is a bit of a "you must do it this way" feel about the wiki help docs which I will work on removing10:42
mdkeit wasn't at the time10:42
jdongbustacap: +110:42
bustacapjdong, that is part of making the Wiki more friendly10:42
mhzbustacap: that page uses lots of moin nice tricks10:42
mdkeyou can't remove all of that I'm afraid10:42
mdkebecause it's like saying "don't worry about making good documentation"10:42
earobinsonbut there is a huge advantage to haveing all the wikis in the same style bustacap 10:42
bustacapmdke, sure, but we can encourage good documentation..10:43
bustacapnot enforce it as a hard and fast rule10:43
jdongmdke: that's one of the attitudes of the forum howto section. It's very loose and relaxed10:43
bustacapperhaps just "softer" language in the instructions..10:43
mdkejdong, "don't worry about making good documentation"???10:43
mdkesurely not10:43
jdongmdke: in a way, yes10:43
mdkehmm10:44
jdongwe don't have a 10 page guide on writing a 5 line howto10:44
mdkeare there rubbish howtos there?10:44
bustacapmdke, it's not a case of - "stuff it - let somebody else fix it up" - it's more that if you want to create good doco, here's how..10:44
earobinsonbustacap, but even then when a user makes a how to and links it on the forums and it gets edited that could cause problems no?10:44
jdongmdke: at times, yes10:44
mdkejdong, ah. That wastes the user's time10:44
jdongmdke: there are howto's on all levels of complexity and quality10:44
mdkehe then has to look for another one10:44
bustacapearobinson, heaven forbid a Wiki getting edited by others.. :)10:44
jdongmdke: no it doesn't.10:44
mdkei think so10:44
earobinsonim saying it can be a good thing, but if a user makes one and then the style gets changed thats where problems could start bustacap 10:45
bustacapok, jdong & mdke hear me on this..10:45
bustacapmdke, we can agree that there is a need for good doco10:45
jdongAll I can say is that we've not once got a rant about users not being able to find howto's, but several users who have tried to create docs on the wiki come back confused10:45
bustacapjdong, we can agree that shouldn't be the barrage of restrictions and rules for users..10:45
jdongcorrect10:45
bustacapwe need to simplify the "guidelines" for creating new Wiki docs..10:46
mdkejdong, finding and creating are two different problems. I won't tell you that the wiki is easy to create documentation on. Although it's not as hard as people think, and we can work on it10:46
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bustacapsort of like how Malone is a simplified Bugzilla..10:46
jdongmdke: correct, but how would you like forum users to act diferently than now; that's currently my #1 concern as representative of the forums10:46
manickamdke, for ordinary users, the wiki is overwhelming10:47
bustacapbasically, search for an existing topic, if it doesn't exist - create a new one and follow some simple formatting guidelines..10:47
jdongcurrently, I see more of a doc team side effort than a forums issue10:47
bustacapmanicka, I would agree with that for some ordinary users, we need to simplify the Wiki help & guidelines..10:47
jdongwe'd be glad to lend a hand, but more important I'd first like to know for the average forum user making a HOWTO thread, how this is going to change after this meeting10:47
bustacapI will be scouring the logs for this meeting and bringing up a lot of these subjects at the next meeting - this has been very productive so far..10:48
bustacapdoc team meeting that is..10:48
bustacapjdong, we need to make the Wiki help simpler and friendlier..10:48
jdongyeah, we all need to stay in close contact and understand each other better10:48
bustacapmore meetings like this ;)10:49
jdongugh, pretty much :)10:49
earobinson:)10:49
bustacapso manicka, Bonzodog, jdong - any thoughts on any structuring within the Wiki10:49
Bonzodogyeah...simplification is needed BADLY10:49
Bonzodogalso, my login to the wiki keeps on going awry10:50
mdkeBonzodog, what sort of simplification?10:50
bustacapI am of the opinion that the UserDocumentation page needs further indexing at levels below it..10:50
manickawell, the obvious one is the layout of the userdocs page10:50
mdkeBonzodog, login is cookie based. if you delete your cookies, it goes away10:50
Bonzodogno, I have an 'invalid password'10:50
manickayou need some subsections created with how-tos linked together, like the recent wifi page10:50
Bonzodogas i am using my LP login10:50
mdkebustacap, that will happen when the wiki is moved, and searching works properly10:51
mdkemanicka, ^^10:51
bustacapsure, I am working on the UserDocumentation  page manicka - I will make the changes publicly known once I have a solid plan..10:51
Bonzodogso I cannot change skin10:51
bustacapmdke, I thought the searching works pretty good at the moment..10:51
mdkebustacap, search for "bluetooth"10:51
mdkeyou'll get like 4 pages which aren't documentation10:51
bustacapmdke, you'll get worse results on Google :D10:51
bustacapsearching is searching..10:52
manickaand some way of establishing if a howto is for a specific version of ubuntu or a generic howto10:52
mdkemanicka, yes that is true. There's a thread on the ML right now about that10:52
manickathe last time I looked there were some redundent pages there10:52
jdongok, http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=100, on that page, we have a read-before-you-post message encouraging users to go on the Wiki10:53
bustacapmanicka, could I invite you along to the next docteam meeting with your thoughts on the wiki, because these are the exact topics that I am bringing up at the moment..10:53
jdongis there anything you guys would like to see changed about that?10:53
bobbleheadbobble..10:53
mdkenope, I am happy with it10:53
bustacapjdong, I think I will talk about a restructuring of the whole Forums->Wiki issue with mdke and we'll get back to you..10:53
bustacapthe page is good though..10:53
manickabustacap, I'm usually there anyway10:53
jdongbustacap: then we'll follow-up through e-mail?10:53
bustacapsure on the Forums->Wiki issue, yeah10:54
mdkejdong, have you got a minute for a couple of things10:54
mdkenot related10:54
bustacapjdong, and maybe another meeting as well..10:54
jdongmdke: yeah, like 15 minutes or so, shoot :)10:54
bustacapok, onto UDSF related topics..10:54
dsaswould it be a good idea for the udsf guys subscribed to the doc ml if they wished? fresh input and their experiences would be helpful on things10:54
earobinsonwhy not also post it to the forums let the users know whats going on10:54
jdongbustacap: alright10:54
jdongthis has been a good discussion so far, thanks everyone :)10:54
mdkejdong, one is enough :) http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=91 if I add a post about the wiki documentation and official help docs, will you sticky it there?10:55
mdkedsas, yes, very good10:55
bustacapyes thanks for your attendance jdong..10:55
manickadsas, I've been on the doc ml for some time10:55
earobinsonbecause that way as things do change they will know why and have a chance to come to a meeting and make there voice heard10:55
jdongmdke: sure; I will10:55
jdongbustacap: no problem; glad I could be of assistance10:55
mdkejdong, ok I'll PM you or something, if that's ok10:55
manickaas is kb and others10:55
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jdongmdke: pm, e-mail, all fine10:55
mdkethanks all10:55
bustacapBonzodog, you wanted raise the topic of the UDSF10:55
ubuntugeekgood meeting.. thanks jdong..10:56
BonzodogI wanted to propose the idea of creating a link between the udsf and the wiki10:56
bustacaphello ubuntugeek10:56
ubuntugeekhello10:56
Bonzodogalong the lines of using the interwiki10:56
earobinsonlol ubuntugeek lurking in the shadows eh10:56
jdonglol, I was just commenting on that, earobinson  ;)10:56
bustacapBonzodog, one exists - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDSF10:56
Bonzodogyeah, I created that10:57
ubuntugeekhad a second to drop in.. but jdong is doing a fine job and i'll just watch..10:57
bustacapwell, if nobody has anything extra to add..10:58
Bonzodogwhat i was saying is that how-to's could remain on the udsf10:58
Bonzodogarchived by us10:58
bustacapthey can Bonzodog..10:58
dsasmanicka, ok, I wasn't aware of that. 10:58
Bonzodogthere could be hard lionks put into the main wiki10:58
Bonzodog*links10:58
bustacapwe have no input into what gets copied and pasted around the Internet..10:58
bustacapBonzodog, that is defeating the purpose of the wiki10:59
bustacapa wiki that links to another wiki??10:59
Bonzodogso we become the how-to section of the wiki effectively10:59
bustacapthe wiki is the how-to section..10:59
Bonzodogthats what interwiki is all about#10:59
Bonzodogthe wiki contains alot more than howtos's10:59
bustacapI don't think this is the intention of the UDSF team? to link off the Ubuntu Wiki?11:00
Bonzodogwe are the forum howto's archive11:00
Bonzodognothing more11:00
Bonzodogwe actually have linked across to the wiki11:00
Bonzodogon occasion11:00
bustacapok..11:01
Bonzodogso we archive the forums how-to's11:01
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Bonzodogthen we place a link using interwiki in the main wiki11:01
mhzbye guys and thx for such interesting discussions11:01
bustacapthanks mhz 11:01
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Bonzodogthat way users can still create their how-to's in the forums11:02
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Bonzodogwe take charge of archiving forum related info11:02
bustacapBonzodog, a solution for the how-tos have been discussed using the official resources of the Ubuntu community11:02
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bustacapofficial Ubuntu Forums -> official Ubuntu Wiki11:02
manickathat's a very long term project bustacap11:02
KingBahamutI aggree manicka11:03
bustacapyes it is..11:03
Bonzodogmy solution works11:03
BonzodogI've seen it11:03
Bonzodogi've tried it :)11:03
KingBahamutsorry for my lateness ladies and gents11:03
bustacapsorry KingBahamut, the meeting is coming to a close..11:03
Bonzodogmanicka: we need to bring KB upto date11:03
KingBahamutfigures my dumb luck would elude 11:03
KingBahamutce la vie11:03
mdkethere is a log, no problem11:04
bustacapyeah, catch the discussion in the log..11:04
Bonzodogbut that is my idea11:04
earobinson+ follow up emails and meetings11:04
bustacapI think I will close off the meeting here..11:04
earobinsonand I assume any info will be posted on the forums11:04
bustacapyeah + earobinson 11:04
bustacapsure there is a post - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=68659611:04
Bonzodogbbustacap: I thought the udsf was to be a major part of this?11:04
BonzodogI would hope that we could work together11:05
bustacapBonzodog, the main topic on the agenda was the duplication of the howtos on the UDSF11:05
Bonzodogand is that not what i have been trying to discuss11:05
bustacapand a proposal on a joint effort to identify and correct the duplication within the two Wikis..11:05
Bonzodoga solution11:05
bustacapdo you see there being a duplication problem between the two wikis?11:06
Bonzodogyes11:06
Bonzodogbut we are already ahead on that11:07
earobinsonwhy is it a problem Bonzodog?11:07
Bonzodogso why don't you let us continue what we are doing11:07
Bonzodogand we will then create interwiki links to the main wiki11:07
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bustacapwell I will raise the issue at the next docteam meeting on proposing to identifing duplicates..11:08
Bonzodogthat ways the forums stuff remains as is11:08
bustacapsure, you guys just archive.. I am not trying to stop the activities of the UDSF Bonzodog..11:08
bustacapI am after a better documentation solution, that's my angle..11:08
Bonzodogisn't it better though to continue with the how-to's going to the udsf from the forums?11:09
Bonzodogthus we stop duplication onto the main wiki11:09
mdkenight all, gtg11:10
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earobinsonI still dont understand what is so bad wit a bit of duplication11:10
jdongalright, yeah, I've gotta be heading off too...11:10
jdongI think the rest of the discussion for now will be non-forum related11:10
earobinsonlater jdong mdke11:10
Bonzodogi say let the users continue posting how-to's to the forums, we will transfer them to the udsf, then create a hardlinked page in the main wiki to the udsf11:11
bustacapBonzodog, this is causing some many extra unnecessary steps.. - this has been discussed above..11:12
Bonzodogit will basically echo the index setup of the udsf11:12
earobinsonbustacap, +111:12
bustacapbustacap, +1 as well11:13
earobinson1 step that makes the info available to all 3 is better than 3 steps11:13
Bonzodogbut you are proposing cutting the supply route by not letting users post how-to's on the forums?11:13
Bonzodogthus we suddenly have no info to archive11:14
bustacapI have to get going now.. Thanks for everybody turning up and having a great discussion - progress has been made - keep in touch..11:14
earobinsonnot stop it just make it more easy to post in other locations and then link from the forums11:14
KingBahamutBonzo, that just means our doc writers go outside the forums 11:14
KingBahamutand it becomes a non issue11:14
earobinsonexactly11:14
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earobinsonmeeting over???11:17
dsasi'd say so, it seems most everyone has gone.11:18
dsasjust waiting for the irc logs to refresh so I can catch up :)11:19

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