[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] DIG hack-a-way ideas for 2013 (take 2)

[Ruth Frasur]

+1 for both the preliminary tutorial as well as a Doodle for/in November.


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org> wrote:

>  Hi Yamil,
>
> +1 to meeting in separate clusters and to using Google Hangouts to link
> together clusters and individuals. I'm happy to go to Berklee or to C/W
> MARS for the Massachusetts cluster.
>
> Rather than spending time at the hack-a-way introducing people to
> AsciiDoc, could we post a video tutorial so that people could watch it
> ahead of time? The hack-a-way may be a good opportunity for people to ask
> questions about AsciiDoc as they are using it for their first time.
>
> How about if we set up a Doodle for November to see when people can
> participate?
>
> Kathy
>
> Kathy Lussier
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> On 8/29/2013 9:31 AM, Ruth Frasur wrote:
>
> I like the idea of cluster groups if there are enough participants.  I
> also would be open to using Google-anything for this.  While I'd love to
> travel to Boston, I'm pretty sure my board and my budget would say
> otherwise.  Also, the idea of having an introduction at the beginning is
> great.  For some, I think muscling through and figuring things out would
> work, but it'd be time consuming w/ varied results.  If we can all start at
> a common point, I think the quality of work will be more consistent.  At
> this point, I'm open to just about anything in November or December (with a
> few exceptions not worth mentioning at this point).
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Yamil Suarez <ysuarez at berklee.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is a second attempt to start a discussion for to planning for a full
>> day DIG hack-a-way in what is left of 2013. The topic has come up a couple
>> times at the DIG monthly meetings, so I hope to get the conversions going
>> sooner than later. As a point of reference, last year the DIG hack-a-way
>> was held at Berklee College of Music in Boston on October5th, 2012.
>>
>>
>> I just want to start throwing out some ideas of mine or from recent DIG
>> monthly meetings to get the conversation started…
>>
>>
>> - We do not need to repeat the date or the location from last year. For
>> example, I can foresee a cluster in Massachusetts.
>>
>> -  We can meet in separate clusters, in different geographic parts
>>
>> - We can try using Google Hangouts for communication, as well as
>> technologies like Google Drive and/or Dropbox to share files in near
>> real-time.
>>
>> - We can spend time in the morning just introducing people on how to use
>> our documentation formatting standard (AsciiDoc), so newcomers would be
>> welcome.
>>
>> - We can try to pre-arrange to have a test server running the latest
>> version of EG with the Concerto test data set, to use as a reference for
>> writing documentation.
>>
>>
>> Some ideas of what we can work on during the hack-a-way…
>>
>>
>> - Convert and update old documentation into AsciiDoc
>>
>> - Fix documentation bugs reported on Launchpad or mailing list
>>
>> - Create new documentation for new EG features or undocumented features
>>
>>
>>
>> What do people think? Should we start suggesting certain dates or
>> locations?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Yamil
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