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

[Karen Schneider]

Repke, that's super -- when I get back I'll update the participant roster
accordingly, if you haven't done so by then --

Karen

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Repke de Vries <repke at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Thanks for the quick update Karen !
>
> Please note however that my (team's) role would be reviewing rather than
> drafting: our experience comes from installation for evaluation purposes and
> from trying to grasp the more high level Evergreen architecture & design
> picture.  Migration experience by the way will only be further down the
> road.
>
> Yours,  Repke
>
> IISH
>
> Op 10-sep-2009, om 1:59 heeft Karen Schneider het volgende geschreven:
>
> 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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> | Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts"
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| Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts"
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