Re: docs Digest, Vol 80, Issue 26

[Christopher Antila]

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(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
>  ...
>  Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:31:21 -0500
>  From: Jes?s Franco <tezcatl(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  Subject: Re: Membership requests to Docs FAS Group
>  To: For participants of the Documentation Project
>  	<docs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  Cc: quaid(a)fedoraproject.org
>  Message-ID: <20101027013120.GC2677(a)opuntia.gateway.2wire.net&gt;
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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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