Membership requests to Docs FAS Group

[Jesús Franco]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:22:06AM -0400, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
> I just sent a message to six people that requested membership in the
> Docs project (via the FAS group) but did not complete the other
> requirements, namely the introduction on the list.  These requests are
> from between 14 September and 15 October.  I'll revisit the queue next
> week to determine whether or not these people have met the membership
> requirements[1] or not.  If not I will remove them from the queue.
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Docs_Project#Yes
> 
> --Eric

I wonder if we could think about some "Bounty tasks" to become
contributors at Documentation Project. Something like mizmo wonderfull
idea to engage more active contributors. Around concrete and
not-so-scary design tasks: Docs tasks at this group, of course. Maybe
a specific Beat, or pages marked as "need love" (again, not so
scary). And guiding them through the process of making a successfull
contribution, getting more confident contributors to commit later
bigger tasks.

As "eating my own dogfood", i want to ask someone interested in
mentoring "me" (remember, i'm kinda sort of first test pilot on this
idea). I'm actually an active translator on the wiki and at a few
guides. But i'd like:

1: to help at Docs project to reorganize the pages under its scope
   * Maybe marking at first place as "Old-for archive" really not very
   useful at this very moment. I talked a few weeks ago with jjmcd
   about jumping on this train, but i think i need a most slow
   approach, and maybe there is not much time until after release
   party.

2: Starting *some* guides for digital literacy.

   * I talked with Rudi about an idea we are talking on Fedora LATAM:
   Escuela Fedora. As #fedora-classroom it's an idea for teaching new
   skills to contributors, but there is a real need for more outreach
   as Máirín show us with her projects this year teaching Inkscape and
   GIMP. A guatemalan Ambassador: Edna Rheinier, and Damaris Trujillo,
   have teached too high school girls, on Inkscape and Gimp and gived
   talks about women in free software and Fedora Project, of course.

   * We have too, some wonderful ideas on TOSS (on collaboration on
     real world in free software projects) by K. Wade and Greg
     DeKoenigsberg, P2PU ("peer to peer university") and
     CollabOERation. It's hard to outline a full book, but i think
     i'll be ready at this weekend to show a first draft of chapters
     and the first chapter.

Said this, i'd like to document the mentoring process if someone wants
to help, from having the initial idea, upto getting an usable book,
ready for translation. This would make too "raw data" for a first
course about "Fedora writer first steps" as we are talinkg too at
Fedora LATAM. And a potential first course on future Escuela Fedora
project.

I think will i need to apply to docs-writer group in FAS, and
docs-publishers when i've accomplished the first version, right?

----
In summary,

i think a Documentation Challenge could be a good compromise between
having a docs group "invite only" (having sponsored the in by his/her
mentor at real), and being open and getting best documented our
processes.

Let me know what do you think, if you'd like to be "my" mentor (you
know, documenting publicly the whole process), just drop me a dent
@tzk on identi.ca if you have a little bit of time.

Thanks in advance, and peace for all.

Jesús Franco
Translator and Ambassador
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tezcatl

P.S. I cc'ed this message to Karsten Wade with my apologies for not
getting in touch for edusol summit. A quick look at my wiki page could
tell you why that project failed since they don't wanna anything to do
at this moment, with OpenSource projects, sadly.