Documentation team

Ariane and I have been getting inquiries lately about whether we can come to various regional events to host a documentation sprint. It's always exciting when people are interested in working on documentation, and we're glad that there is so much interest in sprints -- they are a great way to get some work done and introduce new people to contributing to documentation. But unfortunately, being a Documentation Team co-lead is a completely volunteer position, and neither of us has unlimited travel time or budget (even if the regional camp offers to pay travel expenses).

I started writing an OpenSUSE tutorial for drupal: http://drupal.org/node/1180202

What I want to do is get feedback and develop a template/checklist to follow to make sure no important information is left out of a server config.

So far I have these categories some of which are not written on the above page yet:

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Two announcements:

Docs hour Tuesday (tomorrow!)

June is Bring a friend to Docs month! Join us tomorrow for Docs hour, bring a friend if you can, and we'll work on getting pages set back to "No known problems" (or review/discuss anything else needed).

Tuesday, June 7, 1pm PST/4pmEST in #drupal-docs on IRC.

Documentation contributor links block is back!

During Docs Hour on IRC today, we thought up something a bit different to do for June...

June is "Bring a friend to Docs" month!

There are no issues tagged for a June sprint this time round, instead we're going to do a fun team building sprint to help get new people introduced and oriented with how to work on docs! Here's how it works:

Hi all!

So, I've been pondering communications - mainly because I have a pretty hefty backlog of emails that have been sent through my contact form that is only growing. I wish I could spend the time it would take to write really helpful, personalized responses back to everyone, but as the quantity has been growing that's proving to be unrealistic.

Hey Team!

As many of you know, the April pilot month-long sprint has been going really well - several people have stepped up to help out with the issues I'd selected, and 3 of 5 are currently done. A few of us are still sprinting on the two remaining issues, and hoping to close out the sprint on time.

Note: As of April 2012, individual Docs Office Hours events are being posted to http://groups.drupal.org/documentation-team and the schedule has changed, so the post below is not current. You can also find the office hours events on the site-wide Events calendar of IRC meetings.

Hey Team -