[17:00] <akgraner> highvoltage, will you have time for a call today?
[19:08] <akgraner> highvoltage, nhandler pleia2 nigelb Pendulum (as well as everyone else)  - Just talked to Jono about UWN - and some of the issues, not enough volunteers, etc - He is going to help promote UWN and help make the process easier etc...
[19:09] <akgraner> we went through the wiki pages and I'll be blogging later as well as email to the mailing list and some personal emails to folks
[19:11] <akgraner> Also I am concerned that maybe I have been to harsh, formal, ridged, in my expectations  - sorry about that
[19:12] <pleia2> thanks akgraner, I do worry that we'll get an influx of new volunteers that we'll find difficult to herd them, but hopefully the improvements to the docs and process will make this less of a problem :)
[19:12] <akgraner> I hope I never made anyone feel guilty or worried over no being able to help from one week to the next etc...
[19:12] <pleia2> being able to point newcomers to a doc and say "ok, you do this" is superhelpful
[19:13] <akgraner> pleia2, jono and I talked about suspending publication til December
[19:13] <akgraner> re-org'ing the docs/wiki's
[19:13] <pleia2> not a bad idea
[19:13] <akgraner> to make it easier for newcomers
[19:14] <akgraner> he also chuckled at my check list - I think it was hide that wiki from all but the publishing editors - even if it is all the steps that looks daunting
[19:14] <akgraner> (sorry about that  - I was just trying to make sure no step was over looked or not explained)
[19:16] <akgraner> also rotating publishing editors - so no one person is always the one publishing it - but having someone just over see the process incase of a bus (or fire :-D)
[19:17] <akgraner> does all that make sense to you all?
[19:17] <cody-somerville> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_number <-- we need to increase our bus number. :)
[19:18] <akgraner> Jono and I also talked about making it Ubuntu Newsletter and making it a bi-weekly publication
[19:18] <akgraner> I told him I would blog about it and email the team and go from there
[19:19] <akgraner> I just want everything open and transparent as possible
[19:19] <pleia2> all sounds good
[19:19] <akgraner> and newcomers know that this is an easy place to start should they choose to
[19:23] <akgraner> I need to get back to paid work for a while - but let me know if there is any input to these suggestions as I'll blog and email everyone after work
[19:23] <akgraner> Thanks y'all....:-D
[19:24] <akgraner> p.s - I'll try and remember to add all the suggestions from the blog post to the meeting agenda for December - someone poke me if I forget
[19:33] <akgraner> pleia2, nhandler et all - any reason you all can think of that Joeb454 can't just post and publish his community interviews straight to the Fridge/ubuntu-news.org
[19:34] <akgraner> with author status he can only manage his posts
[19:35] <akgraner> and it would eliminate an extra step of him posting to his blog the pleia2 reposting to the fridge
[19:35] <pleia2> we would essentially be adding him as a fridge editor, I think he should go through the process the rest of us do
[19:35] <pleia2> add him, but have one of us review them before posting
[19:35] <pleia2> for the first few posts, at least
[19:37] <akgraner> ok I'll have him ping an editor to review them :-)
[19:37] <akgraner> thanks
[21:16] <nhandler> akgraner: I also don't think it is a bad thing having them posted elsewhere first (that is how most stories are done). That way, people can choose to follow those interviews without having to subscribe to the planet/fridge
[21:16] <akgraner> he was just trying to avoid posting twice since he is now doing to other interview series
[21:17] <akgraner> two even
[21:17] <akgraner> he just wanted to make sure they made it to the planet - this would also keep an editor from have to copy it all over - that's all :-)
[21:18] <nhandler> Well, I have no objections to him getting access (after some training), but I would still be in favor of posting them on both blogs
[21:19] <akgraner> as the goal of the new site was to allow for content posted to Fridge by trusted sources - I was thinking it would be a great test case for the contributor and author users
[21:19] <akgraner> since we are trying to make it easier for people to contribute :-)
[21:20] <pleia2> I'd say it's ultimately up to Joe, we don't want to steal his interview series if he wants them on his blog
[21:20] <pleia2> but if is goal has always just been to get them to planet, cool
[21:21] <akgraner> yep he asked me if that was ok...which is why I posted the question earlier
[22:17] <nhandler> akgraner: Well, even if we are a portal with a dedicated box that pulls the latest interview (do you think that might be useful?), I would still like the original version to be on his blog (but that is just my opinion). Like I said, I have no issue with him getting access after training to do the reposting himself if he wants
[22:17] <nhandler> And if he is interested, I have no problem mentoring him (I've worked with him before)
[22:30] <akgraner> it's not a big deal either way :-)
[22:30] <nhandler> Yep
[22:31] <akgraner> he's cool with posting in both places as well as poping in the channel and pinging an editor to review his posts