[okfn-help] [sysadmin-coord] Help with website administration

Wed Aug 3 16:39:18 UTC 2011

Hi Elf,

This sounds great -- by asking you to be webmin I did mean a part of
the 'webministration' team rather than, say, sole person responsible
for websites :-) (e.g. I count myself as part of the webministration
team).

Rufus

On 3 August 2011 16:44, elf Pavlik <perpetual-tripper at wwelves.org> wrote:
> Hello Friends,
>
> Earlier today Rufus mentioned to me on irc:
> "08:37 <@rgrp> we wanted to invite you to be our official 'webmin' ..."
>
> I've promised to write an email later describing what I can offer my help with and what not. So here it comes =)
>
> First of all I would like to express my appreciation for your trust to offer me responsibilities related to OKFN website(s). As I have offered my help after OKCon, and so far slowly tried to help out with small task, I definitely would like to start contributing more! At the same time I would like to share with you certain limitations to the amount of time I can dedicate to this project and also what kind of support I would like to offer.
>
> Recently list of projects I get involved with grows quite rapidly, and actually I really want to focus on the space between projects, interoperability of platforms they use and collaboration among autonomous peers. So I have no intention to narrowing my focus to any particular project/network. In practice it means that I don't see myself as candidate for the 'webmin' but rather an active participant of 'webministration' crew, and I look forward to work closer with people already contributing and help others people enthusiastic about this project to contribute.
>
> Lately I've started working more with people from 'Federated Social Web' working group and learn more about 'Semantic Social Web', eventually to use those technologies to improve interproject collaboration. I feel very enthusiastic about those technologies and you can expect me to start suggesting step by step enabling them in the platform of OKFN online community.
>
> I would also like to offer whenever I can, help with skill sharing and improving technical potential of everyone contributing to the project, including myself learning more of course. In general I like to help in a way which over time eliminates need of my help, I talk about situations when person have time and willingness to do something oneself but just lacks technical capacity. Since I believe many of you have more experience and skills than me with lots of topics, and hope you will approach work with me in the same way.
>
> Also on a practical side I stay online very often and keep an eye on our irc channel, whenever someone needs help and I can, most of the time I just do =)
>
> Let's talk little more about our further collaboration to get better understanding among us, I will also pop up in Berlin's OKFN HQ in next days an maybe meet some of you around CCC camp... will start a separate thread on it...
>
> Feeling glad to share some vision with all of you and work together on helping to manifest it!
> =)
> elf Pavlik
>
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