[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] ***SPAM*** Re: Forming Teams by Topic

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

As I stated earlier, the KCLS/Galecia gang volunteers to work on the Context
Sensitive Help team. Our point person will be Cheryl Gould.

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Karen Collier <kcollier at kent.lib.md.us>wrote:

> I've been wondering if people would find it helpful to work in small teams
> by topic area?  Particularly in content areas for which a lot has been
> written by multiple organizations, it seems like it could be helpful to
> have, say 2-4 people bouncing ideas off each other as far as which parts to
> take from which documents and divide up the work of bringing it up to date
> amongst yourselves.  Does this sound like it could be helpful?
>
> I'm thinking the teams could be:
>
> OPAC
> Circulation
> Cataloging
> Reporting
> System Administration
> Acquisitions
> Development
> Docbook Wranglers
> Context Sensitive Help
>
> In the first five teams, we'd need people to read and test existing
> documentation within your content area (
> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=existing-docs:existing-docs),
> choose which parts from which institutions would fit well within our outline
> (http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:outline),
> update the chosen documentation to reflect reality in version 1.6, edit out
> references to a particular institution's policies that wouldn't be of
> general interest to the community, and get the revised documentation to the
> Docbook Wranglers via the mailing list.
>
> The Acquisitions Team will need people to find any existing documentation
> there may be on the acqusitions module, and research and write to fill the
> gaps.
>
> The Development Team, would need to get in touch with our developer friends
> and try to find out what they want documented, and how best to help make
> that happen.
>
> The Docbook Wranglers Team will need volunteers who can convert
> documentation to Docbook format and those who can get it into a version
> control repository... or are interested in learning to do this.
>
> And the Context Sensitive Help Team would be involved in writing and
> editing context sensitive help for use in the staff client, perhaps in
> collaboration with the people working in the overlapping content areas.
>
> Any comments, questions, or discussion on this idea?  Anyone ready to
> volunteer for a team or two?
>
> Thanks,
> Karen
>
> --
> Karen Collier
> Public Services Librarian
> Kent County Public Library
> 408 High Street
> Chestertown, MD 21620
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