[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Notes from the September 9, 2009 DIG Meeting

[Karen Schneider]

The wiki is updated, and the meeting recording is here:

http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/EGDIG090909.wmv

I'll start with the end of the meeting, which is where we moved into "what's
next":

* We bid a fond and grateful adieu to Paul Weiss, who leaves us for a job at
Eugene Public Library. Paul was a founder of the DIG and a major force
behind its early organizational efforts, including the 90-day timeline. The
DIG would really benefit from another community co-facilitator to work with
Karen. Think about if you'd like to do this!

* After discussion, we committed to focusing on documenting these areas --

** Reports (Karen Collier, working from Word docs, revising the text and
converting to DocBook)
** 1.6 Cataloging (Sarah Childs, Word revision)
** Sitka -- new features in 1.6
** Roma -- technical instructions (installation, migration, upgrading --
don't worry, Roma, we know you'll pick one!)
** Daniel -- open
** Karen S. -- 1.6 new features
** Tina -- Converting Word to XML; CSS design; XML transform
** Repke -- installation, Migration, Upgrading
** Paula Burton -- editorial review

* Indiana Evergreen offered to host a 1.6 test server for DIG purposes; he
said it would be up in 7-10 days. It doesn't have data. Karen S. offered to
ask Equinox if there were data available.

* Mike Peters also reminded folks of the URL for the 1.6 staff client:
http://open-ils.org/downloads/evergreen-setup-rel_1_6_0_0.exe It will be
linked from the downloads page when the release candidate for 1.6 comes out,
probably next week.

* Steve Wills volunteered to focus on the public-bugs database question,
with a focus on processes for feeding information from the community back to
the developers. We agreed on a forward-looking approach, focusing on 1.6.

* Karen agreed to check in the style manual's XML after the meeting (done,
to be discussed in a separate note).


Whew!

On the more housekeeping-ish items:

* Karen s. and Karen C. will post the survey results tomorrow. This
concludes the needs assessment.

* The environmental scan is done.

* Shannon and Karen S. will look at training/orientation once the
documentation writers have worked their way through a few files.

* Toolset -- this hasn't been linked yet; anyone who wants guidance on what
to use to produce XML, post to the list and we can give you a good, refined
response.

* Karen will modify the proposed directory structure to note serials.

* The scope/mission statement is on the wiki, listed under Terms of
Reference.

* As noted earlier, Sitka has chosen to go to DocBook for their own
documentation. This is great, because we need a working example to help us
figure things out!


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