[Zope] Community chat follow-up: Zope.org volunteering

[Brian Lloyd]

> I wanted to comment on one issue:
> 
> <ChrisW> what happened to:
> <ChrisW> http://www.zope.org/About/
> <ZCBrian> ChrisW: I'm __really__ anxious to get traction on that...
> <ZCBrian> ...but so far I haven't heard from anyone ;(
> <ZCBrian> Getting the process to work is the key to everything else 
> 
> Brian, you've hit the nail on the head with that last comment.
> 
> To clarify - you "haven't heard from anyone" - do you mean
> you haven't heard from working group leaders, or you haven't
> heard from volunteers?

We've not heard from anyone new about volunteering, or even 
with questions regarding what was posted until now. The points 
you bring up below are a good start though - maybe clarifying 
some of these things will improve the response rate ;)



> If the latter, please note that to me, it is still not at all
> clear *how* to volunteer.  I read http://www.zope.org/About
> with interest when it was announced several months ago. 
> I noticed that the "Online click-through" agreement mentioned
> for content reviewers & site managers does not seem to exist 
> (or if it does, I could not find it). 
> I suppose one could email the working group leaders and ask about this, 
> but their email addresses are not given.

It's not there yet, though we've set up a call with Michael (the 
zope.org webmaster) to plan getting that rolled out. In the meantime, 
anyone in a hurry to volunteer can email me directly and I'll make 
sure that the click-through rollout doesn't block progress in the 
meantime.


> I checked again today, and that's still how things look.
> So, from my vantage point it looks like you're still getting the
> process worked out and aren't really ready to handle volunteers yet.
> Am I wrong?

You are correct that we are still working out the process, but the 
only way to finish working it out is to get some volunteers and  
start doing it ;) We most definitely do want people to start getting 
involved.


> Please don't take this message as griping, I know you guys don't have a 
> lot of time to spend on these issues, and I appreciate your efforts.
> 
> 
> P.S.  On http://www.zope.org/About there are several mentions 
> of a zweb at zope.org mailing list.  
> http://www.zope.org/Resources/MailingLists does not mention a zweb list.
> Should that be zope-web at zope.org ?

Yes - fixed. Thanks!



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