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

[Karen Schneider]

I meant to add, BIG thanks to the Sitka team (Shannon, Jeremy, and Tina) for
their generous advice and assistance with some preliminary guidance on the
styleguide with respect to image formats and sizes, file structures and
naming conventions, etc. They have committed to using DocBook internally and
are a little ahead of us on some of these details! They were unable to be at
the meeting but their participation certainly benefited all of us.  -- Karen
S.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Karen Schneider <kgs at esilibrary.com> wrote:

>  *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 --
>
> --
> --
> | Karen G. Schneider
> | Community Librarian
> | Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts"
> | Toll-free: 1.877.Open.ILS (1.877.673.6457) x712
> | kgs at esilibrary.com
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>
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