[drupal-docs] creating drupal-doc teams

[Liza Sabater]

I had offered to work on the marketing tools as well. Sign me up with 
Andrew.


On May 19 2005, at 06:20 PM, Andrew Hoppin wrote:

> Charlie, I'd love to help on marketing materials, though the next
> couple of weeks are bad for me, and I'd love the team to be larger than
> 2 if I were 1!  :)
>
> Andrew
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> On May 19, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Charlie Lowe wrote:
>
>> Currently, it seems we have lots of interest in taking Drupal
>> documentation in new and interesting directions. To facilitate this,
>> I'd
>> like to see if we can't form some documentation teams. Much like I
>> asked
>> if Djun and Bryan would be in charge of reorganizing the About section
>> of the handbook, I'd like us to form other two person teams for any
>> major area that we have expressed interest in developing.
>>
>> Here are just a few examples of some areas I could imagine
>>
>> Documentation teams for
>>
>> * Restructuring/reorganizing each of the new handbook sections as
>> defined on the V2 page:
>>
>> http://drupal.org/handbook/v2
>>
>> For example, the About the handbook section. We need a couple of 
>> people
>> to be in charge of our authoring guidelines and best practices for
>> creating Drupal handbook documentation.
>>
>> (Anisa spearheaded the style guide revision; perhaps we could coax her
>> and one other person to handle the About the handbook section?)
>>
>> * Best practices for configuring and building Druapl sites
>>
>> (Roland has already volunteered for this one :) Is there another?)
>>
>> * Initiatives for improving the collaborative book and other
>> technological solutions to improve Drupal documentation usability,
>> integration, and creation.
>>
>> (Djun has already been working on this. Perhaps he'd like to be one of
>> the team members. We'd only need one other volunteer then.)
>>
>> * Marketing materials
>>
>> (Andre? You seem to have lots of marketing ideas :)
>>
>> * Etc.
>>
>> The documentation team would be responsible for most decisions
>> regarding
>> their project (in some cases there might be some overlap between other
>> documentation teams, so they'd have to coordinate). Initially, I would
>> hope that each documentation team would run a proposal by the
>> drupal-docs list so that all of us could offer feedback in the
>> construction of their individual project so that a good compromise of
>> the important opposing interests (if any) can be reached.
>>
>> Otherwise, let us know when new documentation is posted (maybe this
>> will
>> be automated) so that we can offer feedback and suggestions. Or when
>> the
>> documentation team members are having trouble solving an issue between
>> themselves, contact the list for assistance in resolution.
>>
>> In the case of any who volunteer for restructuring/revising the
>> handbook
>> sections, if they would like, they could also continue on as the
>> offical
>> book maintainers for those new books.
>>
>> If anyone has ideas for other documentation team areas, please respond
>> to this post via the drupal-docs list. I've mentioned a few people
>> here,
>> but I'm sure there are a lot more. If anyone would like to volunteer 
>> to
>> be a documentation team member for a specific project, feel free to
>> post
>> to the drupal-docs list or contact me privately.
>>
>> Once the documentation teams have been created, I'll create a page in
>> the About handbook section so that people know who's in charge of
>> individual projects.
>>
>> I hope this works well for everyone. Putting people in charge of
>> specific areas seems to me the best way for us to get the things we
>> want
>> accomplished.
>>
>> Charlie
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