Fooof

fooof is a temporal, small wiki place to help users of the OOoForum to contemplate on a bright future of a new community-driven portal for all OO.org users. It has been set up because a wiki is better suited to create documents (liek charters or an action plan) collaboratively.

(Taking DrewJensen's two suggested next steps (charter and action plan), I offer a first draft for action. Madmaxx 20:24, 2 June 2007 (UTC))

Action Plan

 * 1) Setup of teams (up to 10 active contributors required)
 * 2) * teams of (approx./at least) 3 for: governance board (GB), team of admins (ToA), and team of mods (ToM)
 * 3) Teams work on different tasks in parallel...
 * 4) * GB: draft a charter (sth. like ubuntuforums "Forum Council" and "Code of Conduct")
 * 5) * ToA: contemplate on technical solutions for a portal including wiki, forum, and file sharing functionality
 * 6) * ToM: draft code of conduct for mods and admins (cf. ubuntuforum "Leadership code of conduct")
 * 7) ... and present their results to all other teams
 * 8) decide on a nice name for the website (yeah, incl. a discussion about it :) )
 * 9) Deployment
 * 10) * contact key oooforums contributors and ask for their feedback and support
 * 11) * decide on the time plan of the actual move
 * 12) * inform many/all members of oooforum and invite them to move as well

(I put some of my ideas for next tasks under each point, please add yours! Madmaxx 20:24, 2 June 2007 (UTC))

Governance (GB)

 * What kind of community portal do we want to have? (aka vision-building)
 * What culture and governance?
 * How should top-level decision-making be organised?
 * How should the GB recruit (or get rid of) members?

Administration (ToA)

 * Define functionality requirements of new website
 * forum: for face-to-face, direct help
 * wiki: for collaborative writing of (short) tutorials, HOWTOs, e.g. condensed excerpts from forum discussions
 * file gallery: for sharing templates, code snippets, etc.
 * make a dump of existing phpBB and make it available on the new site in a read-only version. (If we stick to phpBB finf, if not we keep it... and hopefully transform it in something sueful again under the new portal functionality.)
 * How should the ToM recruit (or get rid of) members?

Moderation (ToM)

 * How should the ToM recruit (or get rid of) members?
 * How should community-building of the new site be approached? (incl. how to attract oooforum users to join the new place)