Announcement

We have quite a few things cooking but a big thing on the horizon is the d.o redesign. That horizon is approaching quickly. Mark Boulton gave us an editorial guide for the new site. We need to review it, discuss and decide the best course of action to implement it. You can read the guide here: http://infrastructure.drupal.org/drupal.org-style-guide/editorial.html

I put up the February Docs challenge on my blog over a week ago. This month we talked about cleaning up the comments in the handbook. We've already had a really good response and we are chopping through the list.

This month I'll be working on the queue and hanging out in IRC from 9-10 pm EST (6 pm PST) each Tuesday evening for the month of February. I encourage everyone to dig in whenever they have time, even if it is only 15-30 minutes every so often and, if you are an IRC kinda person, please hang out in #drupal-docs to help answer questions.

Hey all, now that the holidays are winding down, let's kick off the new docs year with a quick meeting to get back on track. I have a Doodle set up to pick a date/time: http://www.doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=9g5emhds789nskhp

I'd also like to discuss setting up a "regular" meeting time since it seems that the Doodle often comes back with the same general preference and I'd like to have at least one meeting a month this year.

For 2009, I'm setting up monthly "Docs challenges" which I invite everyone to join in on. For the month of January I want to do a bit of house-cleaning on the documentation issue queue. I've got a blog post up on my personal blog for the details: http://rocktreesky.com/docs-challenge-january-tending-queue. If you wanted to jump in but were never quite sure how/where/what, feel free to stop by on IRC or leave comments on my blog post.

I'll be working on the queue and hanging out in IRC from 1-2pm EST (10 am PST, 18:00 GMT) each weekend day for the month of January. That means on the following January dates: 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25, 31.

Let's get together for a docs meeting this week to catch up on things before the holidays overtake us all. :-)

Here is the Doodle to vote for a time: http://doodle.com/34ap6e6y24t7isv6

We will meet for one hour in the #drupal-docs IRC channel on the FreeNode network. Please vote on Doodle by Wednesday, Dec. 17 (tomorrow) midnight GMT (7pm EST, 4pm PST).

Agenda:
Announcements
Status on Theme guide reorg
More Getting Started org discussion
Talk about redesign status
Discuss the new help system in core issues

The last meeting we covered a lot of ground and bounced around a bunch of ideas. We didn't have much time to dive into new projects, so let's set another one up soon. the meeting will be for 1 hour in the #drupal-docs FreeNode channel.

Here is the scheduling Doodle: http://doodle.com/u2xw6996qgkfd9yt (Please respond to the Doodle with your preference by Thursday, November 13.)

Now that the Getting Involved book is started up, I wanted to set up a time for the next IRC meeting. Our IRC meetings are held in the #drupal-docs channel on the Freenode netwrok and last one hour. Let' s shoot for something next week with the top agenda items being:

1. Wrap up discussion on Getting Involved. I hope we get a fair bit of cleanup done during this week but we should touch on important remaining items, if there are any.