Re: Refining the WebPlatform Wednesdays/ WPD Wednesdays / Content wranglingŠ thingie

Hi, Julee-

On 5/3/13 8:12 PM, Julee Burdekin wrote:
> Hi, folks:
>
> Let's give people more time to answer the Doodle Poll, but mark your
> calendars tentatively for 11am PDT, on Wednesday for our first IRC
> meeting thingie. OK, I need to stop calling it by multiple, vague names. So:
>
>  1. What's the event name?

Well, I was saying "Web Platform Wednesday", but the Twitter hashtags 
for #ww and #wpw both have meanings... Maybe "WPD Wednesdays" (#wpdw)? 
That might be obscure... but maybe it would help spread the WPD nick in 
general?


>  2. How should we describe it?

I've written up an article, and I'm working on a blog post... see my 
follow-up email soon.


>  3. Since this work is top-priority, shall we reserve the first 15
>     minutes of Monday's programming meeting to pick the pages? Or do
>     Chris and Scott want to pick them in advance? Or…?

I think it may be more efficient if we allow each coordinator to pick 
4-5 pages on their own, though we could certainly devote some time to 
suggestions.

Again, I think this will be more effective if we list specific pages we 
need help on, so picking just a few topic clusters will help focus the 
message. This week, I choose outline properties... there aren't many, so 
we'll need some more topics as well.


>  4. What is the weekly routine? Monday announce topic area and pages?
>     Tuesday afternoons invite folks? Pre-meeting: get status of the pages?

Building up to Wednesday, we decide on the articles for that week; we 
announce the topic area and articles on Wednesday (thus the name...:P).

Wednesdays are good because people are over the initial stress of Monday 
and Tuesday, and have more free time and attention on Wednesdays... but 
still aren't done with their work week.

So: Monday, we decide on a suggested topic area; by Tuesday night, each 
coordinator reports back on the progress made in the last week, and on 
their choice for new articles, which may be stuff left over from the 
previous week.

On Wednesday, we announce the new set of target articles and start 
gathering contributors. We announce the results and the new targets in a 
blog entry.


>  5. What's the meeting program? How will the meetings flow?

That I don't know. I reckon we'll wing it the first week. Starting with 
the celebratory round-up seems like a good start, then inviting 
contributors on IRC to hook up with a coordinator?


> Because this is, in part, based on other weekly get-togethers, if you've
> attended some of these, and know what works and what doesn't, your input
> is greatly appreciated!

I always think your structured way of handling it, with issue recaps up 
front and ending with "what's getting in the way of you making great 
content" is an effective structure.

Regards-
-Doug

Received on Monday, 6 May 2013 08:01:25 UTC