Update: Holiday Virtual Hackfest

Eric Christensen eric at christensenplace.us
Wed Dec 17 20:40:45 UTC 2008


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Betty,
I think we need to update the User Guide before we can move it to XML.
We might need to move your hackfest to later in the week or use your
time to work on the User Guide, itself.

Eric


Betty Harvey wrote:
> Where does the 'official version' of the documentation reside?  I would
> like to take a look and see what will be required for conversion.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Betty
> 
> 
> <quote who="Matthew Daniels">
>> Betty,
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure about the rest of the F9 documentation, but I know
>> that not everything is ready for F9 yet (the User Guide, for example).
>> Make
>> sure you don't accidentally convert F8 content.  However, the User Guide
>> should be ready for F9 soon, and I imagine most stuff either already is or
>> will be by the end of the Hackfest.
>>
>> -Matthew
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Betty Harvey <harvey at eccnet.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I just signed up on the WIKI to convert Fedora 9 documentation to XML.
>>> I haven't used IRC in years so if I need to get on IRC I will need to
>>> reinstall and refamiliarize myself with it again.
>>>
>>> In the meantime, can you point me to where the documents that needs to
>>> be converted reside.  This will help me make a better assessment of what
>>> is going to be required to get them converted to Docbook format.
>>>
>>> The other question I have is once they are in Docbook do you want to
>>> convert the source to XHTML and PDF using the Docbook XSLT libraries?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Betty
>>>
>>> <quote who="Eric Christensen">
> Betty,
> A "hackfest" is a time when folks gather around a table and try to
>>>> hash
> out ideas and try to fix problems regarding a specific task.  We are
> going to virtualize the process and use the technology we have at our
> fingertips for our hackfest.
> 
> If you want to sign up for one of the tasks that has been placed on
>>>> the
> wiki, just log in with your FAS user name and password and edit that
> particular portion of the wiki with your name as a follower.
> 
> Then put it on your calendar so you won't forget and join us during
>>>> the
> time period given.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> Betty Harvey wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Eric:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am not sure how this "Hackfest" works.  I saw a Task "WIKI to XML"
>>>>>> that I can either lead or do.  Let me know how I can go about
>>>>>> signing up.  I am assuming the XML should be Docbook?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Betty
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <quote who="Eric Christensen">
>>>>>>> Events are starting to pop up on the Holiday Virtual Hackfest page.
>>>>>>> Don't be shy!  Stop by and sign up to lead or follow!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Eric
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 19:00 -0500, Eric Christensen wrote:
>>>>>> Karsten Wade wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 03:04:19PM -0500, Eric Christensen wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> During today's meeting I made a couple of changes to the Holiday
>>>>>> Virtual
>>>>>>>>>>> Hackfest[1].  We now have taskers for the event but need someone
>>>> to
>>>>>> lead
>>>>>>>>>>> them.  Please take a look at the list and see if you'd like to
>>>> take
>>>>>> one
>>>>>>>>>>> of them on and schedule it.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Also, if you know of other taskers that need to be addressed
>>>> please
>>>>>> put
>>>>>>>>>>> them under the "Tasks to be scheduled".
>>>>>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Holiday_Virtual_Hackfest
>>>>>>>>>> ;-)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah, what he said.
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Betty Harvey                         | Phone: 410-787-9200 FAX: 9830
>>>>>> Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. |
>>>>>> harvey at eccnet.com                    | Washington,DC SGML/XML Users
>>>> Grp
>>>>>> URL:  http://www.eccnet.com          | http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/
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