<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">hey Josh,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>That is awesome! Hopefully DROP will be in full swing by that time. One of the things we can add to our own task list at the Drupalcon Docs sprint is to fill out the DROP task list. We can also brainstorm about any particular tasks that would work well for this project. Will you be coming to Drupalcon?</div><div><br></div><div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Addi (aka add1sun)</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Jan 31, 2008, at 8:48 PM, Joshua Brauer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>One of my frequent <a href="http://addingunderstanding.com/2008/01/dreamweaver-vs-content-management-part-ii">rants</a> about the need for journalism schools to teach content management system resulted in a small class of upper division journalism students (8) in a class on content management systems. I'm signed up to help the instructor with the class and as a part of the class we want to find a way to have the students contribute to the community. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>So I'm looking for ideas on how to have a small group of writers new to Drupal contribute to the project. I'd imagine these would be small (1-2 week) projects. I'm thinking small GHOP/DROP documentation style tasks</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Is there a list of or could folks recommend some high-value projects to have these folks work on?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Since they may not be around long (of course I hope otherwise) is it better to have them work and post work in an issue and have a docteam member post? (And I'm happy to do that if it is the best approach).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>It may be best to have these projects be more on the community/advocacy side of things as the writers may not be up to terribly technical writing/editing.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I'm guessing it will be late March or early April when this assignment would be given.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Any and all other ideas are greatly appreciated.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Josh</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div>--<br>Pending work: <a href="http://drupal.org/project/issues/documentation/">http://drupal.org/project/issues/documentation/</a><br>List archives: <a href="http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/">http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/</a></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>