Holiday Virtual Hackfest

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:41:19PM -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:00:27PM -0500, Eric Christensen wrote:
> > 
> > So, who's interested?  I can start a wiki page for people to sign up for
> > days/times to teach something or for someone to host a clean up.
> 
> Very interested and able to teach or hack on any part of anything.
> 
> Here is where I can probably be most useful:
> 
> * How to be a lead writer for a Fedora document.
> 
> * Emacs and DocBook XML are heaven sent - how to get the most out of
>   your editing tool.
> 
> * How to be an effective beat writer.
> 
> * Documentation strategy and tactics in Fedora.
> 
> Stuff like that. :)
> 
> I think this is going to be a great chance to do a live test of the
> quality of whatever improvements we make in the next twenty days to
> our own processes and docs.

This last point is especially important to me.  When I brought up
virtual hackfesting I did really want to go past the "classroom"
concept and actually spend a dedicated day or two actually dividing up
all the tasks that are piling up for Docs.

* Wiki gardening

* Process pages overhaul (toss, strip, refinish)

* Check/fix Docs entries in release schedule 

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