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Friday Free Software Directory IRC Meeting or "FFSDIRCM"
This is an event held in the #fsf IRC channel on FreeNode, every Friday starting in the evenings (Boston/Massachusetts time zone). Essentially, it is a weekly gathering where people collectively add/update information on http://directory.fsf.org/ which is a wiki dedicated to listing as many free software packages as possible. Coreboot (and also libreboot) are listed there.
Of course, people also contribute to it at other times of the week, but Friday evenings are when there is the most activity. The idea is, that it is a set time each week where lots of people come together and try to improve the wiki as much as possible. This means that every week, there is a burst of activity; this is also when the moderators are most active, reviewing changes (coreboot wiki doesn't have moderators, so this isn't relevant there).
Having such a date means that you are also advertising the existence of the wiki, encouraging more people to contribute, who would otherwise not contribute.
Essentially, my idea is to have something similar for the coreboot wiki. Every week (on a set day - Friday evening is optimal, for various reasons), people would come together and improve the wiki as much as possible.
This could be anything from adding pages about boards in coreboot which are not currently documented, improving existing pages, making the wiki easier to read, and so on. Anything that improves the efficiency of the wiki, so that it is a more effective source of information for coreboot users and developers.
Thoughts?
On 06/18, Francis Rowe wrote:
Essentially, my idea is to have something similar for the coreboot wiki. Every week (on a set day - Friday evening is optimal, for various reasons), people would come together and improve the wiki as much as possible.
I don't know that Friday is such a great time, people tend to not want to work after a week of work, but FWIW this time works for me.
This could be anything from adding pages about boards in coreboot which are not currently documented, improving existing pages, making the wiki easier to read, and so on. Anything that improves the efficiency of the wiki, so that it is a more effective source of information for coreboot users and developers.
Thoughts?
I think it might be smart to expand the scope of this outside of just the wiki. Documentation generated via doxygen is in a bad state. Thorough documentation of things like 'what is a CBFS?' or 'How does coreboot use Kconfig' are not suited for a wiki page, but are probably even more important than a clean wiki.
I agree that this work is needed and I would like to be a part of it. Thanks for proposing this.
-Nicky Sielicki
Francis Rowe wrote:
Thoughts?
The last thing coreboot needs is random people putting random stuff into the wiki. Knowledgeable developers who can create the most useful content are very busy all days of the week.
//PEter
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Peter Stuge