[documentation] Mini-project/task documentation ideas

[Joshua Brauer]

Addi,

That sounds great. I don't know yet if which part of Drupalcon I'll be  
there for. If I'm not there for the Docs sprint I'd love to see if  
there is a way to participate virtually.

Josh


On Jan 31, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Addison Berry wrote:

> hey Josh,
>
> That is awesome! Hopefully DROP will be in full swing by that time.  
> One of the things we can add to our own task list at the Drupalcon  
> Docs sprint is to fill out the DROP task list. We can also  
> brainstorm about any particular tasks that would work well for this  
> project. Will you be coming to Drupalcon?
>
> Addi (aka add1sun)
>
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2008, at 8:48 PM, Joshua Brauer 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?
>>
>> Since they may not be around long (of course I hope otherwise) is  
>> it better to have them work and post work in an issue and have a  
>> docteam member post? (And I'm happy to do that if it is the best  
>> approach).
>>
>> It may be best to have these projects be more on the community/ 
>> advocacy side of things as the writers may not be up to terribly  
>> technical writing/editing.
>>
>> I'm guessing it will be late March or early April when this  
>> assignment would be given.
>>
>> Any and all other ideas are greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Josh
>>
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