documentation sprint

For those of you who will be attending the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit, who would have an interest in participating in a Docs BoF/sprint? I'm new to the Docs team, but I wouldn't mind organizing this (whenever the summit site gets BoFs up and running!). I also wouldn't mind helping someone out if they've got more experience in organizing a BoF of this type.

Thoughts?

It's been mentioned and discussed informally, but we finally have confirmed details for the Sprint-to-Drupalcon Bus. We're ready for signups and looking forward to an awesome journey with great people! Sign up or Sponsor to get your seat today (hurry though - space is limited to 54 seats).

Overview
The Twin Cities Drupal Community is organizing a bus to Drupalcon Chicago. The bus will be part Drupal Sprint (work on docs or modules or code or anything else that you think will help make Drupal better), part socializing (we'll have drinks, snacks and refreshments for all) and part fun! We also believe this to be the world's first mobile Drupal sprint - so jump on board today and you'll be able to tell your grandchildren about it.

Since a lot of new stuff is going into Aegir right now, what do you all say we do a three to four hour doc sprint during copenhagen week - planned and timed right we can try and get irc participation.

Some possible areas to work on:

• Review and rework form helptexts and other end-user help text
• Expand and update the wiki pages in groups
• Begin documenting the API (although maybe it is too soon(tm)?)
• Review/clarify code for murky/unclear comments

Any takers?

I organized some Drupal 7 documentation sprints the last few Tuesdays (http://groups.drupal.org/node/50403)... They were successful, in that we got a couple of new people going in documentation, and a few patches filed (I'll shout out to trevjs especially, for coming to all of the sprints and patiently working on some patches).

However, the sprints were not very well attended, and we still have a lot to do to get the documentation of Drupal 7 ready for its release (http://drupal.org/node/515870), so I'm wondering how we can get it done.

My questions:

Hi everyone. I think it would be a good idea for us to have a documentation sprint in NYC. How many others would be interested in participating and what do you think is the ideal location/date and time? Oleg (litwol) has said if not somewhere else, we could meet at our usual monthly meet-up location at Mansueto Ventures. add1sun from the Drupal doc team has said she will help flesh out a task list and make postings so that others from the doc team will be online to help answer questions etc..

This Saturday, June 20, 2009 is the Twin Cities Documentation Sprint from 10AM to 5PM at Advantage Labs. Come when you like. Tell your friends. We hope to see you there.

The Drupal masses of these fine cities have spoken, and apparently we want to do a documentation sprint! I hoping we can make this happen in the next couple months. A documentation sprint doesn't have to be fancy (but the documentation can be).

What is a Documentation Sprint?

A documentation sprint can encompass many distinct activities, but it is all about improving the Handbooks section of Drupal.org. This can encompass many things: