Enrico Zinihttp://www.enricozini.org/tags/dcgstaticsite2009-06-05T22:57:39ZEnrico Zini: posts with tag dcgDebconf6 talks material now onlinehttp://www.enricozini.org/blog/2006/talks-debconf62009-06-05T22:57:39Z2009-06-05T22:57:39Z
<p>I've finally put online slides and notes for my debconf6 talks:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://people.debian.org/~enrico/talks/20060513-DebianDay/index.html">Mi vida con el software libre (in Spanish)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.debian.org/~enrico/talks/20060514-WastingTime/index.html">Advanced ways of wasting time</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.debian.org/~enrico/talks/20060516-Debconf/index.html">The Debian Community Guidelines -- Or, how to be able to plan total world domination with a public discussion in debian-devel.</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Many people had asked me the notes for the "Advanced ways of wasting time"
talk: they're finally online, translated and with the links pointing to English
Wikipedia pages. Sorry it took me so long.</p>
Reorganization of the DCGhttp://www.enricozini.org/blog/2006/dcg/dcg-refactoring2009-06-05T22:57:39Z2009-06-05T22:57:39Z
<p>I've recently received a substantial amount of feedback about the <a href="http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg">Debian
Community Guidelines</a> and went into some
reorganization of it.</p>
<p>The previous general section still stands as the <a href="http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg/main.html">Main
Guidelines</a>: those are the
substantial few things to always keep in mind.</p>
<p>What previously was the long list of checklists is now split in two: the
<a href="http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg/debian.html">Debian-specific Guidelines</a>,
which should be a shorter lists of non-obvious suggestions for people who
already have experience with online life, and the <a href="http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg/general.html">General
Guidelines</a>, with the fuller
checklists with useful suggestions for everyone.</p>
<p>I still haven't gone through the selection and reorganization of the
Debian-specific and General part, so at the moment they look fairly similar and
most things overlap. But the good news is that I finally found a structure
that I like, and that can allow more experienced people to make use of the
guidelines without getting bored with simpler things like "google before asking
a question".</p>
<p>This division also suggests a little workflow: new suggestions can be added to
the Debian-specific part, and then later moved to the general part when they
become obvious for everyone.</p>
<p>I'm happy. This layout seems to be good in getting me unstuck with how to
think of the <a href="http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg">DCG</a>. More will come of course, as I'll prepare my
<a href="http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg">DCG</a> talk for <a href="http://www.debconf.org">Debconf6</a>.</p>
Converging to a solutionhttp://www.enricozini.org/blog/2006/dcg/converging2009-06-05T22:57:39Z2009-06-05T22:57:39Z
<p>Sustain a discussion towards solving a problem is sometimes more important than
solving the problem.</p>
<p>I can't decide if this is trivial or counterintuitive. Anyway it's been quite
enlightening when it came out. I once took this note:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I found that with my projects, when someone posted a mail about a problem I
would work maybe some days to find a solution, and just post the solution at
the end.</p>
<p>However, now I realised it's more costructive to have the problem-solving
process itself happen online. This way, instead of keeping people waiting in
silence for a few days they can get quicker feedback and extra informations,
and they also have a chance to participate to solving the problem before I
manage to.</p>
<p>For example, when I have to interrupt to go home or sleep, someone else can
pick it up and do another step.</p>
<p>Plus, the entire problem-solving process remains documented, which will provide
more written information for future readers.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This note was from a few months ago; however, I still fail to do it. Bad
habits are sometimes hard to change. Please kick me about it :)</p>
DCG mentioned on Linux.comhttp://www.enricozini.org/blog/2006/dcg/article-on-linux-com2009-06-05T22:57:39Z2009-06-05T22:57:39Z
<p>A friend of mine pointed me to the <a href="http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg">Debian Community
Guidelines</a> being mentioned in <a href="http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/01/149211">a
linux.com article</a>.</p>
<p>"[Mako] hopes that Garrett's resignation will give the Debian community an
added impetus to adapt its own code of conduct, like the one proposed by Enrico
Zini."</p>
<p>I'm very happy to see the DCG geting mentioned, although I don't think that it
makes sense to 'adopt' such a document.</p>
<p>what I'd like for it is to be mentioned as a suggested read, and linked from
here and there. So today it happened, and I'm happy :)</p>