[drupal-docs] creating drupal-doc teams

[Andrew Hoppin]

would be glad to help support this as well.   have written a reasonable 
amount of PR before.

On May 19, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Charlie Lowe wrote:

> Definitely!
>
> The press team, too, could probably also work in conjunction with the
> marketing team on many projects. Nice thing about forming teams is that
> it creates obvious groups of people to work togther on certain 
> projects.
>
> Robin Monks wrote:
>> Hmm, shouldn't we have a press team?  Something to find, correct,
>> create, manage, distribute and edit drupal articles, stories and
>> external sources.  Kind of like Mozilla's "For the Record", "Press",
>> "SFX Fire-wall", and Mozilla Links.
>>
>> I'd love to volenteer for this :-)  Of couse it would require some
>> people willing to work on these articles.  I've CC'd some Mozilla
>> contributers who may be interested.  MozGuys, read PS: below to get
>> familar with the situation here.
>>
>> Robin Monks
>> Drupal Drops
>> Mozilla Links
>> MozNetwork
>>
>> PS: Drupal Docs 1on1
>>
>>   OK, the major thing going on here is create an "outreach" project 
>> for
>> Drupal such as Mozilla has.  Drupal-docs will also provides
>> documentation for Drupal itself.  Michael, Percy, if you don't quite
>> understand Drupal, please look at http://drupal.org
>>
>> On 5/19/05, *Andrew Hoppin* <andrew at civicspacelabs.org
>> <mailto:andrew at civicspacelabs.org> > wrote:
>>
>>     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
>>>>
>>>> ****************************************
>>>> Andrew Hoppin
>>>> 1.212.464.7665 (m)
>>>> andrew at civicspacelabs.org <mailto:andrew at civicspacelabs.org>
>>>> ****************************************
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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