[documentation] Mini-project/task documentation ideas

[Steven Peck]

Case studies/white papers.  If we could get that kind of articles I
would make a completely new section of the handbook for them and try
to do cartwheels.

Steven

On Jan 31, 2008 7:38 PM, Lee Hunter <lee.hunter at hum.com> wrote:
> Case studies would be ideal for journalism students and would give them a
> taste of the kind of work that's done in trade magazines and PR firms.
>
> They could take a look at a well-known organization that is using Drupal and
> answer some or all of the following questions: What is the business? What
> problems were they facing? What alternatives did they try or consider? What
> influenced their decision to use Drupal? Who championed Drupal within the
> organization? What was the selection process like? How did they plan for the
> implementation? Did they use an outside consultant? Did they have to migrate
> content? If so, what was that like? How long did it take? What did they
> learn and what would they do differently. Etc etc.
>
> Lee H.
>
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2008 8:48 PM, Joshua Brauer <joshua at brauerranch.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > One of my frequent rants about the need for journalism schools to teach
> content management system resulted in a small class of upper division
> journalism students (8) in a class on content management systems. I'm signed
> up to help the instructor with the class and as a part of the class we want
> to find a way to have the students contribute to the community.
> >
> >
> > So I'm looking for ideas on how to have a small group of writers new to
> Drupal contribute to the project. I'd imagine these would be small (1-2
> week) projects. I'm thinking small GHOP/DROP documentation style tasks
> >
> >
> > Is there a list of or could folks recommend some high-value projects to
> have these folks work on?
> >
>
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