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From: "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Dead project cleanup - Merging Presentation with Public Relations
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 20:34:57
Message-Id: 58014164.6020904@iee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Dead project cleanup - Merging Presentation with Public Relations by Matthew Marchese
1 On 14/10/16 09:33, Matthew Marchese wrote:
2 > On 10/07/2016 04:56 PM, Matthew Marchese wrote:
3 >
4 >> Hi all,
5 >>
6 >> Thought I'd send a RFC out to you all to get a little feedback before I
7 >> make any changes to this since I didn't originally start the project. If
8 >> no one responds with a good reason why NOT to make the changes I
9 >> purpose, I will proceed in a somewhat timely manner.
10 >>
11 >> It's been over a year since I manually moved the Presentation Project
12 >> from wwwold to the wiki. No one who was previously involved in the
13 >> project has presumed membership (or leadership) with the project.
14 >> There's only been one meaningful edit by Rich0 to one of the project's
15 >> two subpages. He kindly added links to a Gentoo presentation he recently
16 >> gave.
17 >>
18 >> I currently see no reason why we need a separate project for
19 >> Presentations. Maybe once when Gentoo PR was busier and we had more
20 >> people giving talks it was necessary. If we're just looking for a place
21 >> to host links or files I think merging this project with Public
22 >> Relations will work nicely. I propose hosting the content of this
23 >> project under the Public Relations project, since it has members who are
24 >> actually overseeing it as Project specification (GLEP:39) demands.
25 >>
26 >> Empty projects should be removed. They are dead. It's not me who says
27 >> it, it's GLEP 39. Be mad at it, not me. :P
28 >>
29 >> I already have a repo for PR setup at projects.g.o. I will make a
30 >> presentations/ directory for storing the PDF files that Robin was
31 >> recently looking for...I'll have to dig them out of the Wayback Machine,
32 >> but that shouldn't take me too long.
33 >>
34 >> Your wiki warrior,
35 >>
36 >> Maffblaster
37 >>
38 >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Presentation
39 > Okay! I've got all the old stuff dug out of the Wayback Machine. Files
40 > are now hosted under projects.g.o here:
41 >
42 > https://projects.gentoo.org/pr/presentations/
43 >
44 > Please note the directory naming. I'd like to keep this consistent with
45 > the date following the title of conference in all lower case. Even if
46 > there's only one talk, please keep it this way. I can envision Gentoo
47 > talks having the same exact title.
48 >
49 > I will update the links to the wiki page at some point this weekend
50 > (check back in a few days):
51 >
52 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Public_Relations/Available_Presentations
53 >
54 > Feel free to point to me to places I can get other FOSDEM / Mini conf
55 > stuff... Not sure what we're going to do about video. Upload them to our
56 > YouTube account and/or Archive.org for hosting?
57 >
58 > Kind regards,
59 > Matthew
60 >
61 YouTube would be good .. do we have a channel .. who's curating or wants
62 to?!
63
64 Great work Matthew!

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