[csw-maintainers] Thematics month proposal

[William Bonnet]

Hi Phil
> one of the biggest "challenges" about a volunteer
> organisation, is that you cant just write up a project agenda, and then
> assign people to do it. You need... volunteers!
>   
That's right ! I fully agree
.
In order to recruit volunteers we first have to set up the project. As 
you wrote below it comes through writing wiki page, and documentation 
and many thing else. Gathering volunteers also requires to be 
attractive. Being attractive often means to start the work on the 
project and to communicate about this until you reach a kind of 
"critical mass". It's not gonna be a easy thing, but i believe it is 
worth to try :)

It will help to create the buzz around, it will help focusing some 
effort on mutual goal, and ... many things :)

It is important to me that this project or themes or whatever you call 
it, must *not be* a mandatory thing or an exclusive thing. It has to be 
a kind of roadmap to highlight important task, to try to improve the 
quality of the packages and service we deliver. It should not prevent 
people to work on other things.
> So, I would suggest that you first start with a wiki page on
>  "here are themes I propose", 
> then see if there are any extra ones proposed,
> and then see who signs up to handle/drive each of them.
> Finally, based on who is doing each bit, work out schedules for each.
>   
For sure. It's a good advice. First of all i sent this email to see how 
people are feeling about this idea. I already had a few positive 
feedback, i will start to work on the wiki page in the next days. I can 
setup a couple things, but i'll need help :) and i'll ask for...

Don't hesitate to comment more or give your opinion about this. And 
don't hesitate to submit your ideas for the agenda and discuss about 
subjects. Sometimes it is easier to discuss about this by email rather 
by editing wiki pages.

cheers
W.

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