Looking for volunteers: Moving the foundation work forward

[Eran Hammer-Lahav]

This is an incomplete list of ideas that came up during the last month and need people to help execute. If you feel inspired and have the time, please consider putting your name next to (and carrying out) the following action items:

* Create a page on the OWF wiki with an explanation about the membership model, how new members are added, and the membership application.

* Write a proposal for how OWF committees should operate: how committee members are elected, vote, and what is required in order to remain a committee member over time (attending meetings, votes, etc.).

* Reach out to the current set of grassroots specification communities and create a list of contributors to each effort to help with soliciting feedback for the legal document. Primary focus should be on Open Microbloggin, Activity Streams, OAuth (for 1.0a and extensions), and Portable Contacts. We need the names of all individual contributors as well as their employers so we can reach out and solicit feedback from them about the agreement.

* Conduct an informal survey about current foundation members to better understand the distribution across different areas (location, employment, age, gender, standards work, open source work, advocacy work, etc.).

* Conduct an informal survey about the needs of current community-based specifications. What are these communities expecting from the OWF, especially as it moves forward to establish the incubator program.

Please add your own tasks and add your name next to existing tasks...

Thanks,

EHL

[Tantek Çelik]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav<er...@hueniverse.com> wrote:
>
> This is an incomplete list of ideas that came up during the last month and need people to help execute. If you feel inspired and have the time, please consider putting your name next to (and carrying out) the following action items:
>
> * Create a page on the OWF wiki with an explanation about the membership model, how new members are added, and the membership application.

Eran, I would like to help with this task.

In order to do so, could you provide a URL to "the OWF wiki" as
yourself and other founding OWF members have established or are using?

If there is no current official wiki (as it appeared from today's
meeting), I propose/request that we ask for a volunteer to setup
MediaWiki at

http://openwebfoundation.org/wiki/

MediaWiki has served microformats.org *very* well, from community
management functions, to contributions, to custom plugins for better
web standards support. MediaWiki is much better than many alternatives
(e.g. pbwiki) in many ways. It's also the wiki editing interface that
many/most users of the web are familiar with thanks to Wikipedia.

I myself am not an expert in setting up MediaWiki, or otherwise would
volunteer to do so.

Thanks,

Tantek

[Eran Hammer-Lahav]

Great!

A year ago David setup a wiki somewhere for some legal principals and incubation ideas...

http://groups.google.com/group/open-web-discuss/browse_thread/thread/b072377c31fd8ebe#

I have no opinions on this matter (shocking!) and your plan makes sense to me.

Can anyone help set this up? Also, can someone with server access help?

EHL

[Brendan Quinn]

I would be happy to help get things set up -- I haven't set up mediawiki before but how hard can it be?

I don't have any login details for openwebfoundation.org, but I could set something up on a personal server in the short term.

Brendan (brendanquinn@skype)

[Ben Werdmuller]

Hi all,

I'm interested in taking on or helping with this task:

> * Conduct an informal survey about current foundation members to better understand the distribution across different areas (location, employment, age, gender, standards work, open source work, advocacy work, etc.).

I'm also interested in any copywriting tasks that arise, including the
membership information page.

Ben

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Tel: +44 (0) 777 338 5490
Skype: benjaminmorayhouse1

[Eran Hammer-Lahav]

Great.

BTW, please don't wait for an official approval from anyone. Just go ahead and do it. It is best to first give heads up on this list so that duplicate work is avoided. But other than that, just go for it.

EHL

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[Brendan Quinn]

Well I'm willing to go ahead and set up mediawiki on openwebfoundation.org if you could give me a shell account on the server...! Just let me know.

Brendan
(not an official member... yet... but I work with Ben Smith, Dirk-Willem van Gulik and Dan Brickley who can vouch for me)