[TYPO3-hci] ...was inspiring people to slave, now lets talk turkey...

[Erik Svendsen]

Hello Daniel,

> Hi Erik,
> 
> my view is this: when the topics and tasks to do are split into little
> pieces _then_ it's easy for people to jump in and decide what they
> like to do.
> 
> The topic "HCI" seems to be too big and complex, that's maybe the
> reason why not much is done so far (if I read it right what Kasper
> wrote about this newsgroup)
> 
> For the documentation I'm trying to split the things in "nice easy
> pieces". But it needs some time until I ask for helpers. documentation
> can make fun, too ;-)
> 
> kind regards
> Daniel Brüßler

Don't disagree on this view. Because it's easier to see the goal/result for 
what you are going to do when the tasks are small. If the goal is clear and 
easy to understand then it's much easier to get motivated to contribute. 
And small tasks also make it's easy to ditch team approach and use a workgroup 
approach. There are a distinct difference, in a workgroup each person do 
his/her task (and fullfill it) without much communication with others, in 
a team each and everyone are highly dependent on the others, and are therfore 
more complex to work with.

I agree that documentation can make fun.

And I think your approach are a good one for documentation. Maybe you should 
think about a kind of documentation repository, where you could upload different 
kinds of documentation, and let some rating system and/or comments system 
tell which should be official documentation.

I also agree that the HCI topic are complex and big. But there is also a 
topic that need a lot of discussion before it can be put into smaller pieces.

WBR,
Erik Svendsen
www.linnearad.no