[documentation] About/Getting started/Getting involved handbooks

[Steven Peck]

By all means, take it over.  It's a random collection of things
already but has a trafficked well known url /about.

I would like to see a refined missions / statement of purpose for it
to help people in future determine what goes in it.  I will clear up
one for the Getting Started one myself and try and post it soonish as
well.

Anything that doesn't fit in the new clear guidelines for /about would
go in a new book.  Does that work?

We could tag in the log that it is owned by .... you?


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Addison Berry <drupal at rocktreesky.com> wrote:
> Well,  I've had the conversation once before and it was left that we
> would probably get rid of the About book and just split it up between
> Getting started and the new one. I changed my feelings on it with more
> time to contemplate it and now that we are preparing to actually do
> the major reorg very soon, I wanted to make sure we were all on board
> with how we should do it.
>
> I'm not really concerned about "marketing people" and what they do or
> do not do/want to do, but I do want the material we already have to be
> easier for evaluators to find.
>
> Basically I just wanted to be clear, myself, on whether to "take over"
> the About book for the new one or not. Seems like the general idea is
> not. That is the main clarification that I needed.
>
> - Addi
>
>
> On Aug 11, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Steven Peck wrote:
>
>> Haven't we had this discussion several times already?
>>
>> I had thought the About Drupal was to be about the Drupal community /
>> drupal.org and that all the marketing gunk that no one ever works on
>> more then few minutes would be separated out?
>>
>> I know we've had people volunteer to do it before but then they go
>> poof 3 days later.
>>
>> Steven
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Brenda Boggs
>> <brenda at alligatorsneeze.com> wrote:
>>> I also like option #1.  The "About" section needs to be prominent,
>>> something evaluators can find very quickly, and that'd really be
>>> easiest
>>> if it's in it's own section.  The description needs to be more
>>> clear on
>>> what exactly is in the section.  Maybe even something along the lines
>>> of, "Before You Start" rather than "About".  If nothing else, a few
>>> prominent links such as a section on "What Can Drupal Do?" or what
>>> have
>>> you on the main handbook page.
>>>
>>> Brenda
>>>
>>> Addison Berry wrote:
>>>> OK, so here is the last major discussion point that came out of the
>>>> August 8 IRC meeting. Sorry for spamming the docs list. ;-)
>>>>
>>>> As mentioned in the Summary email we raised the subject of what do
>>>> about the new Getting Involved book in relation to the existing
>>>> About
>>>> and Getting Started books. The two options we were discussing were:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Create the new book in addition to About. Rework the About book.
>>>> 2. Have the new book replace the About book. Move non-contributing
>>>> kinds of things to Getting started.
>>>>
>>>> The idea/argument behind #1 is that we would retain an About book
>>>> and
>>>> that the contents of it would be shifted to focusing on information
>>>> for "evaluator" types. This would have things like an overview of
>>>> what
>>>> this Drupal thing is and "marketing" stuff for lack of a better
>>>> term -
>>>> things like the Case studies/showcase site listing and "press" kinda
>>>> stuff, if it exists. This wouldn't be a big book.
>>>>
>>>> Option #2 is to just not have an About book anymore. We would
>>>> "take it
>>>> over" for the new Getting Involved book and move anything that isn't
>>>> for Getting Involved into the Getting Started book instead.
>>>>
>>>> My feeling is, and general IRC discussion leaned towards, option #1.
>>>> The reasoning for that is that I feel like the Getting Started book
>>>> should be mostly focused on actually doing stuff to get started and
>>>> not have lots of extra information to sift through. I'd prefer that
>>>> stuff about Drupal be in an "About" book and stuff about actually
>>>> using Drupal be in the "Getting Started" book.
>>>>
>>>> We need to make a decision on this relatively soon, as we hope to
>>>> launch the new Getting Involved book in the next few weeks. So,
>>>> PLEASE
>>>> DISCUSS.
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Brenda Boggs
>>> Drupal Consulting and Web Development
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>>> brenda at alligatorsneeze.com
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>>> IM: denel003
>>>
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