Documentation team

I'm thinking of changing the time for the weekly Docs Office Hours.

Motivations and considerations:
- It seems like a lot of our office hours participants lately are in Europe, and 1pm West Coast US time is pretty late for them. (Probably not for Asian participants either, and there have been a smattering of folks especially from India who have been interested.)
- It doesn't work well for some North American folks either, just by chance (like they happen to have a meeting at 1pm Tuesdays every week).

Hello wonderful members of the Drupal Documentation Team!

Remember last fall, when we went through an amazing process of discussion and refinement for the Community Docs redesign? Putting aside what happened immediately afterwards (how long it took to get it actually deployed), do you remember how great it was when it was deployed finally? If not, take a look at a Community Documentation page, such as:
http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/dashboard

Hello Documentation Team!

As you probably have noticed, the Documentation Team is no longer taking full responsibility for maintaining/writing/editing the Community Documentation (recently renamed -- http://drupal.org/documentation). As part of the effort to move this responsibility out of the Documentation Team and into the Community at large, we are mostly trying not to use Documentation issues to report problems. Instead, we're encouraging people to edit the pages directly, or at least add a comment and change the page status.

One of the things that I find really fiddly with writing documentation is making sure lines wrap to 80 characters. I find it really breaks my flow of concentration to be always watching for when to hit return or even go back when a word turns out to be too long and then type a space-star-space (how on earth people did it in the days of manual typewriters... I guess we're just spoilt with technology nowadays!).

The Documentation Team has traditionally hosted a documentation sprint at all of the North American DrupalCons, and this past year, also at DrupalCon London (I'm not sure if there were sprints at earlier European DrupalCons or not). [If you're not familiar with the term "sprint", the DrupalCons usually have a day, either just before or just after the main DrupalCon event, where people get together and work in a big room, and we call that a "sprint".]

You may have noticed that the big "Rename Documentation to Community Documentation" change happened recently -- if not, check out http://drupal.org/documentation and especially individual documentation pages such as http://drupal.org/requirements , to see the new layout.

We've been having weekly Docs Office Hours for a while now, on Tuesday at 1pm (US/Pacific time) -- see http://groups.drupal.org/node/145039 for more details.

That particular time/day was chosen because it worked well with Ariane's and my schedules, and seemed like it might be good for others as well. But I'm wondering if people would prefer another time? My schedule is fairly flexible (within the constraints of my time zone), and I'm open to changing the time.

Post comments/thoughts here... if no one has a strong preference, I'll probably leave the time as it is. Thoughts?

Ariane has just officially left her position as the co-leader of the Drupal Documentation Team, leaving me as the sole leader (see http://drupal.org/node/1402190)... I've agreed to stay on as Leader for the time being, but since I've been acting in a leadership role in the Documentation Team for a couple of years, and with the official title for more than a year, I'd like to put a time limit on my tenure as Documentation Team Leader.

Hi Team!

Some of you may have already heard through the frontpage or Twitter, but the announcement has just gone up that I'm stepping down as Docs Co-Lead: http://drupal.org/node/1402190