New member introduction

[Phil Bull]

Hi Murray,

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 18:46 +1000, Anthro Pologist wrote:
> Hi everyone.  I've just joined and am looking to help wherever I can.
> I have an IT background, specialising in collaboration, and writing is
> a hobby.  I've been using Ubuntu since 2005 so the Ubuntu docs group
> seemed a good fit for sharing some of my time.  Is anyone working on
> anything that they need help with?  Or can you suggest something easy
> for me to start myself?

Welcome! There are a few tasks here [1] that you might like to take a
look at.

> I'm also interested in doing some research on this group to understand
> how team culture affects the productivity of virtual communities.
> With my background, I'm comfortable with the major collaboration tools
> and when / how to use them, but I would like to understand more about
> the culture of virtual teams so I'm currently studying a Masters of
> Applied Anthropology.  If anyone is interested in helping me, I'd like
> to interview 10 - 15 members of this community on your perceptions of
> the culture and how it impacts your ability to contribute.  Interviews
> will last less than an hour and will be confidential, but a summary of
> the results will be available to anyone interested.  There are more
> details on my profile page at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/Anthropologist.  Let me know
> if this is the wrong place for it.

I'd be happy to take part, although I should warn you that the Doc team
doesn't really have 10-15 regular members...

Thanks,

Phil

[1] -
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation/Tasks

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