Updating the organizational structure

Riccardo Iaconelli riccardo at kde.org
Mon Oct 24 11:48:25 UTC 2016


Hi Aaron,

I know that Vincenzo has answered to you privately, but for the
records... yes. ;-)

Bye,
-Riccardo

On 22 October 2016 at 03:10, Aaron Honeycutt <honeycuttaaron3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So Vincenzo Eduardo Padulano would be the person to talk to about adding
> stuff to the CS area?
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016, 5:23 PM Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> about one year has passed since operations on WikiToLearn officially
>> started operations, and looking backwards I am really impressed by the
>> amount of work and successes we’ve accomplished. There is now a
>> vibrant community full of young and passionate people who are working
>> hard to make education and educational content free and accessible to
>> the world.
>>
>> It is in realization of this, and to account for the growth of scale
>> of the community, that the figure of a Maintainer no longer makes
>> sense, where it does not harm the development of WikiToLearn itself.
>> To allow for a better organization and to further scale the project
>> for a more global participation, I hereby resign as maintainer and
>> nominate a few people who will, each in its own sector, take on the
>> coordination and organization roles associated with the figure of a
>> maintainer. They should not only coordinate their respective areas,
>> but have a full oversight of the project to take care of all the
>> special/gray cases which really don’t fall in one section or the
>> other.
>>
>> The roles, and nominated persons, are:
>>
>>   - Tech area: Alessandro Tundo
>>   - Infrastructure: Luca Toma
>>   - Promo/Community management: Matteo Bonanomi
>>   - Institutions contact person: Dario Mapelli
>>   - Content manager: Vincenzo Eduardo Padulano
>>   - Treasurer: Marco Paganoni
>>
>> These above roles will be active for six months, with the exception of
>> the Treasurer, who will be in charge for three months. The maintainer
>> is in charge of nominating their successors, in agreement with the
>> community, and can nominate themselves for a consecutive mandate in
>> case there is no other candidate stepping up or the only available
>> candidates are clearly not fitting for the role.
>>
>> Just to reassure everyone involved, these maintainers will not be the
>> “bosses” of WikiToLearn: subprojects and individual contributors will
>> continue to enjoy the freedom of working in a community based
>> environment we are all used to have. These maintainers will, however,
>> act as coordinators and have the final responsibility of making things
>> happen, including plans, coordination, and ensuring that the work in
>> their sector proceeds smoothly.
>>
>> Now... Let’s focus on #operation1000 and make 1.0 rock! :-)
>>
>> Bye,
>> -Riccardo
>> --
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>
> --
>
> Aaron Honeycutt
> - Ubuntu Fl Loco South Lead
> - Kubuntu Council Member



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