[drupal-docs] creating drupal-doc teams

[Andrew Hoppin]

Gotcha.   My time is limited enough in the near-term that if there are 
2 other qualified and interested folks out there then probably best if 
I just support them for now.

On May 19, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Charlie Lowe wrote:

> You are definitely right. I should clarify. Of course we can have more
> than two people working on each of these projects. But I'd like to have
> two people in charge of the project group. Perhaps they should be 
> called
> "team leaders" :)
>
> 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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>>
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