[documentation] The handbook organization

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Hi Steven

Just a question. May I ask who the marketing team are? Seems a weird 
concept for the Drupal community. We don't have a "development team", 
for example - we're all the team!

Simon


Steven Peck wrote:

>People keep saying it's important but they never propose anything
>concrete much less contribute what they think would be neat.  Just talk
>about it in general terms.  And say what it should be some more this or
>that, then talk some more, then wander off.
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>If the Marketing Team doesn't do it, then at some point, I will and then
>take all the abuse again.  But it will be different and done.  
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>Of course, it's been mentioned that some feel system requirements belong
>there.
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>Version number and whick you should use is sort of important but propose
>somewhere to move it.  Stuff used on Drupal.org.... These two have cut
>down on an enormous load of questions in the forums.
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>Maybe if someone who is interested put together an outline?  Tossed some
>intial suggested content?  I have a scratch site that I can grant access
>to for people to edit and collaborate on.  The one part that needs to be
>there is the history (http://drupal.org/node/10257) because it is an
>import part of what Drupal is and where Drupal came from.  This is Open
>Source, free and people need to know that whether they want to or not.
>That mission helps determine what support and what direction things are
>likely to go in.  
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>If need be some of the other stuff can be broken out into a different
>section or moved entirely.  
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>I'm getting sort of selfish with my time as my interests grow and things
>I want to play with in Drupal draw my attention.  I'd like other folks
>to take up an area responsibilty for proposing something, gathering
>feedback and refining it and then coordinating the doing of it.
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>-sp
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: documentation-bounces at drupal.org 
>>[mailto:documentation-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Gary Feldman
>>Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 8:27 AM
>>To: A list for documentation writers
>>Subject: Re: [documentation] The handbook organization
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>>Steven Peck wrote:
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>>>The About Drupal section.... The Marketing Team was supposed to be
>>>working on this which is why other then a very basic pass at it it
>>>hasn't been touched.  There was talk about strategy, 
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>>vision, consultant
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>>>guides, etc... But virtually no work other then Kieren adding some
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>>If I might make a radical proposal, the About Drupal section is an 
>>important web site page, but doesn't belong in the same 
>>grouping as the 
>>other handbooks.  It's kind of like getting a new, 
>>complicated digital 
>>camera and discovering that the first fifty pages of the manual are 
>>talking about the history of the manufacturer, predecessor 
>>versions of 
>>the camera, whether or not you should have bought the camera in the 
>>first place, etc.
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>>Perhaps the recent work for changing the way books are 
>>organized could 
>>be used to treat this entire handbook as something different from the 
>>others, which really are About Using Drupal.
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>>Gary
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