docs Digest, Vol 80, Issue 26

Wed Oct 27 14:46:49 UTC 2010

Hi:

Welcome to the Docs Project!  I'm also a new contributor, and I think
that I can provide some useful feedback to help with your idea to
document the "mentoring process."  Through June, July, and August, I
took part in the Fedora Summer Coding effort (now called "Fedora
Students Contributing"), and wrote the Musicians' Guide (that should be
published soon).

So, I will be watching this list, but please feel free to ask me to help
out where appropriate.

Christopher.

On 10/27/2010 06:10 AM, docs-request at lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
> ...
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:31:21 -0500
> From: Jes?s Franco <tezcatl at fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: Membership requests to Docs FAS Group
> To: For participants of the Documentation Project
> 	<docs at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: quaid at fedoraproject.org
> Message-ID: <20101027013120.GC2677 at opuntia.gateway.2wire.net>
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> 
> 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 M?ir?n 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.
> 
> Jes?s 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.
> 
> 
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