[documentation] Mini-project/task documentation ideas

[Joshua Brauer]

This seems like an excellent idea!

And maybe one or two will be to focus on the open source/proprietary  
choice in particular. (or case studies where the other options were  
proprietary.)


Josh

On Jan 31, 2008, at 8:38 PM, Lee Hunter 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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