This summer, we are doing a project in which we learn Drupal/Open Source skills while helping gardening initiatives. Participants will build Drupal projects that foster "Garden Storytelling." Technically, we might create: recipes for Drupal sites, glue modules, and simple sites that act as web services. Our audience is primarily Drupallers & Community Gardeners. There are about 40 participants overall, half of whom are already involved with Drupal in some form.
An important part of what we will be learning will be documentation.
We are looking for folks from the Docs team who might be interested in participating. There are opportunities to teach a small class on documentation, practice a documentation presentation on us, review documentation style and suggest how we might improve, or simply be available to answer a few questions.
We will introduce documentation early in the summer (early July,) and then practice it as we write code and learn how to do things in Drupal. Near the end of the summer (sometime at the end of August) we will do peer reviews of the documentation we create.
If you would like to get involved, please contact Chach Sikes (chachasikes@gmail.com)
Drupal Open Garden Project: http://garden.localbiology.org
On Twitter: opengardenproj
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Chach - did you ever get any
Chach - did you ever get any volunteers for this?
nope
we will have some concrete projects in a few weeks. I'll try again with specific projects. We have some learning materials we are making as we learn how to do stuff, and we are experimenting with short videos & screencasts.
Mainly, if anyone is interested in that and wants people who are thinking about it this summer, to hang out with - our IRC channel is opengardenproj on freenode, and we have 'online lab hours' that are updated every few days (ad hoc) so look at our homepage to see when you can find us.
What we have going on is awesome. We have a fantastic group of people and fun projects.
Ok great - I'll try and keep
Ok great - I'll try and keep an eye on here, I'm planning to do a big callout for D7 docs help in the next week or so, and can always toss in a little shout-out for helpers in there too. If you are ever really needing someone from the docs team to answer a specific question or point you at a resource you can't fine, if I'm on IRC you can always ping me.