[Foundation-l] strategic planning IRC office hours

[phoebe ayers]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Eugene Eric Kim<eekim at blueoxen.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Samuel Klein<meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> * Could you please help update the meta page on the process with your
>> thoughts and ideas?   [[m:Strategic planning 2009]]  What's your current
>> rough timeline for the coming 12 months?
>
> We'll start seeding Meta with what we know (and probably quite a bit
> of what we don't) today, and I'll look forward to reading other
> people's thoughts.
>
> On creating a new Wiki: I hear you. I'm constantly fighting Wiki-creep
> with some of my other communities and clients. Creating new Wikis is
> often knee-jerk, and knee-jerk is usually not the best thing.
>
> There's a tradeoff between starting with a blank slate and the need to
> re-establish a community and a set of norms. My gut tells me that a
> blank slate is better for this project, but I'm open to other
> feedback.

Re: creating a new wiki --
I talked to Eugene about this briefly last week and agreed at the time
that a new wiki would be useful (for starting the project fresh with a
blank slate) -- but the more I think about it, and reading Angela's
and Mike's posts, sticking to meta for now seems like the best route.
It's practical, as there is already a community of spam fighters,
translators and template builders ready to go, and many of the people
who will be interested in strategic planning are already there (and in
many cases are already active meta editors); and it's fitting with the
role of meta, which is meant to be a multi-lingual place to discuss
the Foundation ... which sounds like strategic planning to me. And I
suspect many of the ideas that will be brought up in the planning
process will have already been discussed somewhere on meta at some
point, and can be linked to and integrated in easily from there.

Anyway, an open to-do list for things that need doing -- whether it's
building out meta or anything else -- would be great too, to help give
guidance to people who want to help out but don't quite know what's
going on.

-- Phoebe