[CC to Latam: followup of
http://rpmdev.proyectofedora.org/issues/388]
Introduction:
At Fedora Latam, active Ambassadors of the region are starting to use
Redmine at
http://rpmdev.proyectofedora.org/project/embajadores as our
ticketing system, analogous to Trac systems used by other regions; and
beyond than "getting stuff" we are using this tool as management of
proposals, sharing reports with our fellows of the region according to
accountability principles, and for the sake of learning all together.
This said, it's beyond of replying e-mails (turning again-and-again to
simple rules like "avoid top-posting", and so on). And even if its use
it's approved because the richness of context and issues management,
is kinda a somewhat complex system. We are planning to introduce new
Ambassadors to the use of this tool since his/her first approach to
the regional collective. But the design of a course for that it's a
long time consuming task, and we need to kick ourselves into the use
of this app.
So, we'd like to run as soon as possible a classroom session (in
Spanish at first release), to let more people sharing questions, this
way helping them to run better our project, and too, helping ourselves
to figure out which are the most problematic features, and prone to
lead people to make mistakes.
This would be a huge step for us, and we are open to suggestions, but
above at all, we want to follow "Release early, release often" method
and improve at sucessive iterations (and translations if there is
interest).
At this very moment, we are able to focus in just a few modules of
Redmine, Wikis, Issues, Documents, and Atom feeds. The versioning and
syndication of updates to being able to read from a widespread variety
of feed readers.
We have running even a bunch of social media tools as experiment of
the running of kinda-of-bots of updates inside the project:
http://fedoralatam.tumblr.com/
http://fedoralatam.status.net/
http://twitter.com/fedoralatam
Please guide us if the session should be reach more higher standards
than getting a general idea of how to run it, before it can be put
into Agenda. And any kind of added requirements.
We hope too, this could be not just another Ambassadors-Latam-only
classroom, but one able to give some advice to other projects wanting
to run their project in a similar way.
Thanks in advance.
--
Jesús E. Franco Mtz.
http://identi.ca/tzk
Fedora Ambassador from Chimalhuacán, México