Improvements for future Community Bakes
The Community Bakes (CB) have enjoyed a great deal of success. The best indicator of that success are the reports that so many bakers are learning from other bakers to better bake a particular bread. Bakers, the world over get to share a “cyber kitchen”. And everyone shares their notes...
Instead of one baker working alone to perfect a loaf, many of us join together with the same goals. When we all focus on the same bread innovative ideas are brought to light. Failures are detailed and the group is forewarned.
The future CBs would benefit from the very same collective brain power focused on possible improvements. Please reply with ideas that might make the process even better.
Here are a few examples of ideas to get us started
- One of the largest hurtles that comes to my mind is, how do we keep things manageable with a topic that grows so large? For instance, the Q&A section that was introduced this last bake. [1] It seems best if all questions and answers addressed to the authur of the bread should be consolidated in one place. How do we best accomplish that?
- It might be nice to have a section containing “lessons learned”, “tips for improvements”, “warnings and pitfalls to avoid”, etc. Not that these must be topics, but are stated just to prime the pumps. Looking for suggestions.
- How would we best pick breads for future bakes that would benefit the most bakers?
- How can the CBs attract more new bakers? The CBs should welcome everyone and never become a clique.
The top 4 items are not the only specific ideas to address. Hopefully our collective brain power and different views and perspectives can introduce ideas and solutions to make our CBs even better... Please feel free to introduce other topics that come to mind.
Collectively we bake better bread, and collectively we can improve our Community Bakes.
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Danny
So far, PieKing and TrailRunner made good points. As I read them it seems apparent that Floyd might best be able to help with technical issues or suggest a work around. I plan to consolidate the suggestions and forward to him for review.
Keep the ideas coming...