[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Draft Notes from the 8/26/09 Evergreen DIG Meeting

[Karen Schneider]

*Draft Notes from the August 26, 2009 Evergreen DIG Meeting*

Karen started the recording a few minutes late – sorry about that! Paul and
Karen also didn't get out an agenda or take notes (we will do better next
time). It is linked from the wiki:

http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:dig_meetings

The first few minutes were taken up with a quick review of the new DIG page
redesign, which has just rolled out; the Purpose/Scope statement, which had
some good tweaks suggested for an already-good product (thanks to Shannon
and Paul); and to brief updates on the proof of concept (basically done),
the environmental scan (no one was there to speak to it so we'll wait to
hear from that group on their status), an update on the styleguide (in work,
actual pages to show), the guidance document scan (deferred until the
styleguide is drafted), with a brief reminder to look at the proof of
concept. Karen will share survey responses with the environmental scan team.


Steve Wills said he will be in touch with the Drupal team, though right now
he's busy with the Nelinet-Lyrasis merger, so we'll keep that in mind as we
move forward.

Catherine Lemmer volunteered to draft a statement on intellectual property
to use in the styleguide.

We then moved into discussion of the survey results. A longer document will
be posted (Karen C and Karen S have it in review -- maybe we could get help
from Karen F? :) ) , but in a nutshell, here are the recommendations, based
on the survey, which had 273 responses:

   - The DIG should move forward on these four identified high-priority
   areas:
   - Reports
      - Installation, migration, and upgrading (really three topics, as
      Steve Wills suggested)
      - Cataloging
      - Circulation


   - Evergreen documentation should focus on version 1.6 (strong support for
   that from the survey respondents)

 Paul and Karen will put out a call for volunteers in these areas (call to
go out next week, this is just a list):

   - Writing
   - Editorial revision
   - Functional testing
   - DocBook conversion
   - XML validation
   - CSS design
   - XSL design
   - Transformations
   - Checkin and committing
   - Graphics creation

If you have changes or additions, shoot them my way --

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