[documentation] Mini-project/task documentation ideas

[Joshua Brauer]

Apologies for my lack of clarity. I would want them all to be Drupal  
use case studies. Just hoping to have a couple in particular where the  
other options considered were proprietary. Something that people can  
use in organizations where the "we want something where we can buy  
support" or "it is better supported because we can buy a contract from  
company XXXX" come up. I've been in a few meetings where it would be  
nice to have a case study and say 'well known company X' looked at  
just this issue and found the paid & community support of Drupal to be  
superior to being locked in to one company... If we don't find a case  
like this it will be fine, but if we can find a good Drupal use case  
where this figured prominently in the decision that would be great.

Josh

On Feb 1, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Steven Peck wrote:

> Let's see if we can get write ups for Drupal use first before we start
> wandering around on non-Drupal choices eh?
>
> Steven Peck
>
> On Jan 31, 2008 8:59 PM, Joshua Brauer <joshua at brauerranch.com> wrote:
>> 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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