[GNUz] Re: [SFD-TC] Team Reports

[Pia Waugh]

Hi Rik,

<quote who="Rik Tindall">

> Howzit going? We met at LCA06, and talked a lot about SFD.

Nice to see you again :) How is everything going in NZ? Is the FOSS
community building up after lca2006?

> We're slowly getting planning started here in Christchurch NZ, but we've 
> struck a snag. The SFD website seems practically dysfunctional. People 
> are making jokes about the forums full of link-spam pron etc. The 
> gallery for 2004 is missing. It has a very neglected feel to it. A 
> really undermining put-off.

Yeah, completely understood. The spam issue has been a problem and we would
love some help. We are about to announce a compeition which would hopefully
provide some incentive, however keeping the forums clean would be good. I
think the mailing list and the start guide have been useful though and
getting people to communicate via the mailing list has been to my mind more
useful, but that is no excuse for the forums to be poo :)

> What's going on with SFI? There's no word coming down through the 
> mailing list, and it seems a bit of a mistake to have divided out 
> linguistically. On balance, I wouldn't be surprised if the 
> Spanish-speakers were feeling undervalued. Any dialogue is better than 
> no dialogue, for developing community.

Umm, no word abou what? Matt and I have posted to the SFD teams mailing list
a few times, and I guess things will be ramp up now.

> Having been with SFD from the start, it seems to me that resources and 
> interest have been drawn away from the project since 11Sept2005. Into 
> Ubuntu, I have assumed, which is fair enough in a way. I just expected 
> things to leap forward again after the release of Dapper.

Right, well the organisation basically until this year consisted of two
people with a grand total of $2000 funding (and free CD's and shipping from
Canonical). So it has probably grown a bit fast for them :) I'm on the board
this year along with some new people and we would love some more help :)

> The forum garbage is badly obstructing any sense of coherent development 
> for SFD06. Anything I can do to help? Moderator rights? - Happy to do 
> bulk maintenance.

That would be great. I've cc'd the SFD board. Matt/Henrik, can you give Rik
whatever rights he needs to help on the forums and website?

> Well, that'll do for now. Just making contact.

Thanks, much appreciated :) I hope that this year is big. We would love some
help with making it bigger and I really appreciate you getting in contact.

> Oh, and sorry about the Wallabies.
> - They must have had the wrong brand of eye-liner ;-)

Yeah, well they shouldn't have got the cheap brand, right? ;) I'll pass on
any recommendations you might have ;P

> Go Italia! You were robbed - it should be the Socceroos in the final :)

Yeah, many Aussies are saying the same, but hey, it has been fun anyway :)

> Kind regards to you and Jeff, and SFI,

Cheers back to you,
Pia

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