Hi all -<br><br>Marv/Martin and I compiled this list of ToDos for WinterCampers. Also, after the list for WinterCampers specifically, there is a list of items captured throughout the week that anyone can take as their action if they wish. <br>
<br>Thanks everyone for an amazing and productive week. <br><br>Anne<br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br>WinterCampers ToDo lists<br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>Adam ToDo<br> Clear up governance of the board, get them registered properly<br> Clean up accounts (both incoming and outgoing)<br> Finish accounting "books" for last year (and maybe 2007)<br> Set up a blog for Ali<br>
Implement IRC chat for Book Sprints as popup (already partially complete), Server acts as one user in IRC but names are shown<br> Talk with Andy about recruiting for Cmd Line Book Sprint<br> Coordinate FLOSS Fridays<br>
Make a maintainers list<br> Add Zita and Marv to maintainer privs<br> Follow up with Marv re: newspaper in New Zealand<br> (Adam will present to board in April)<br><br>Zita ToDo<br> Answer Questions<br> Work on PR manual<br>
Write some more PR snippets, tidy up PR repository<br> Document Farsi localization in the Localization chapter<br> Work with Public Address blog to see about a fundraising campaign pilot<br><br>Martin ToDo<br> Work on OBJAVI, preview, dynamic CSS drop-down list within OBJAVI page, recording styles as Templates for PDF<br>
Get a quote for newspaper-style printing in NZ<br> Work on 2-min promo video for educators with Mick<br> Work on educator's materials with Mick<br> Keep in touch with Design group<br> Get our department to order every manual<br>
Teaching Inkscape with FM Inkscape manual<br> Can we get an article in IDN magazine? Martin will investigate<br> Get FM into educational conferences<br><br>Anne ToDo<br> Get OLPC book on Amazon with Lotte<br>
Start work on Sugar Labs 0.84 update with Ed<br> Work on PR manual with Zita<br> Work with remote collaborators for Firefox Book Sprint<br> Call Scott Abel about Firefox Book Sprint<br><br>Ed ToDo<br> Write Question Answers<br>
Making a list of project ideas, send to Adam<br> Make a list of education contacts, send to Adam<br> Figure out how to price a workshop<br> Talk to state and country ministers of Ed for contracts for books<br>
Help with Localization<br> Sugar 8.4 doc updates<br> Attend Upcoming Sprints<br> Attending Pycon, can represent FM<br><br>Patrick ToDo<br> Join Design group, Lotte and Patrick and Marv continue meeting, likely weekly<br>
Get Mandiburg in the loop for writing a grant for the EU<br> Make a style guide<br> Revise/refresh logo and website style <br> Create Spanish and French translations of Digital Foundations book<br> Put titles on video that's for educators<br>
Organize NYC portion of Pure Data Book Sprint<br><br>David ToDo<br> Start contacting entities with strong community basis with visibility and biz sense as partners, perhaps to help with accounting specifics<br> Work on Governance/policy with board members<br>
Keeping things on track, project mgmt, <br> Set up tools to scale communication<br><br>Mick ToDo<br> Create video from this week (20 minute and 5 minute video), then send a version to Patrick and Martin for edits<br>
Do three courses - blogging, audio/Internet radio/ Video production<br> Foster FM educators group, maybe an email list started<br> Helping out with a sprint in Access Space with James in Sheffield<br><br>Douglas ToDo<br>
Work on Booki - first, the git backend, then Python interface<br> Localization work - bidirectional PDF output, Burmese FLOSS Manuals <br> Work with Ali to improve Farsi manuals language translation tools<br> Contact Leonardo re: advert<br>
Make .htaccess file to "connect" .net and .org<br><br>Andy ToDo<br> FSF Sprint is in 10 days, he'll recruit authors, help organize it<br> Publicize the FSF sprint in Boston<br> Get related books about bash shell<br>
Book Sprints could be interesting for O'Reilly to use as a book creation model, he'll get people to observe the FSF one<br> "Don't Flip" book outline, needs to recruit people to write<br> General publicity - explain he's just a volunteer<br>
Interested in coding his idea for cross references <br> (prereq: get Ubuntu back after a disk failure)<br><br>Eric ToDo<br> Address concerns - make sure report process doesn't block work<br> Scaling up board might be too hands-on, doesn't want to overreach, need policy plan to make FM institutionally independent<br>
Work on governance structure and legality <br> Write a policy that's ethically matching with FM's vision/values (Is that right? Please revise as needed.)<br><br>Lotte ToDo<br> Make cover for OLPC book with ISBN (Anne will send her ISBN number)<br>
Rearchitect website<br> Send out new website page designs for review (front page/Read page, Write page, Remix page - <br> Get Adam to clean out accounting books and shoebox<br> Get text for sections of website<br>
Link .org to .net with .htaccess<br> Design a font for FM<br> Set up design group communications however she wants (forum?)<br><br>Aco ToDo<br> Get FM to work on Google Chrome browser <br> Get bugs in Farsi site fixed<br>
Set up new bug tracker<br> Document the vision for Booki so that others may comment/join vision, gauging interest in Booki<br> Figure out how to "tag team" with Douglas<br> Work on Django front end<br>
<br>Janet ToDo<br> Firefox Book Sprint in CA <br> <br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br>Miscellaneous loose ends from our discussions this week (anyone may take these as actions)<br>
-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Devise a way to get a word count for each chapter<br><br>Could we get a statistics page for readership?<br><br>Dedicated page for chat history, basically picking up IRC chat history<br>
<br>User pages - can we make them more useful with features like:<br> list manuals you have contributed to<br> list rights access<br> show activity, such as recent changes<br> subscribe to other manuals<br> Social networking, dashboard, set up preferences for WYSIWYG editor<br>
Send todo lists to a user page? <br> CV page for each contributor<br><br>Booki future possibilities<br> Attachments - automatically resize, resolution, manage resolution<br> Drop automatic linking in chapters<br>
Better management of version and history system<br> Output format possibilities - HTML, PDF, OpenOffice Doc, DocBook, DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture), git<br><br>Tools for the writer users<br> Online collaboration tools for remote booksprinters<br>
<br>Research how could Booki and Moodle share content <br><br>Book Sprints ideas<br> Writers should be able to use FM immediately<br> How to change the "incomplete" progress marker on a chapter? <br> Have a real public space where everyone at the sprint can see the status screen<br>
Should there be a producer for a sprint - who drives, gets food, carts people, manages people<br> Should there be a separate person documenting the sprint<br> How can we make remote contributor's experience richer? We'll experiment some with the Firefox book sprint in March<br>
Can we make the book sprint (or FLOSS Fridays) "follow the sun" <br> Could we have a con call for remote contributors via VOIP/Skype to make their experience richer? <br> Could we create Book Sprint Ambassadors to encourage people to take on sprints (as franchise/model/pattern)<br>
Work on Friday Night FLOSS/flash mob book sprint as a model? <br> Planning for an Open Creation Tools Book Sprint in July<br><br>Is there an automated cover process via scalable SVG?<br><br>Sidebar bookstore <br> Can we track click-throughs on the widget from other people's sites? <br>
<br>Can someone go to Maker Faires (at different locations)?<br><br>Can we get article in Make magazine?<br><br>Need a targeted list of magazines for both book reviews and articles<br><br>Generate press release at the end of the sprint - we would like maintainers to do this<br>
<br>Flossmanuals content<br> Searchable embeds of FM in other websites<br><br>Need more promotional items - stickers, book catalog, FM bookmark (design team is investigating this)<br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Anne Gentle<br>
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