[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.0 training materials - cataloging and circulation

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Fantastic, Dan!

It would also be fantastic if training material could be managed like the
official documentation.  That way it could also be associated with the
appropriate version of Evergreen (and language perhaps?).  That said, it
seems like a good idea to also just create a spot for helping people find
other training material in the wild.

There is a place on the wiki where some of the excellent training material
that exists is now linked from.  It's at
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=community_tutorials.  This
page also has some developer documentation.

I'm thinking that section dedicated to developer documentation should be
moved to
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-dev:resources or in
the Technical Documentation section of this page:
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php

And then we could re-organize some of the sections on that same page,
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php to clearly identify locally
developed resources (versus Official Documentation) in two categories:
 documentation and training material.

Lori



On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> Hello:
>
> Just a heads-up that I created some training materials for Evergreen 2.0
> for a library earlier this week from scratch. It was probably foolish to
> do it from scratch, but I knew what I wanted to talk about and had to
> step through the screens to capture the correct labels anyway and ensure
> correctness, so it didn't seem like I would save much time by working
> with existing materials.
>
> The materials cover:
>
>  * Intro to the staff client
>  * Intro to the catalogue
>  * Intro to basic cataloguing
>  * Intro to basic circulation
>
> The materials include a number of hands-on exercises (it's training,
> after all, not just documentation). It took me about 12 hours to pull
> this content together, and I'm pretty happy with the shape it took;
> delivering the training took a full day, and we were able to use a
> number of the basic exercises to jump into more advanced aspects of
> Evergreen.
>
> The materials are available from http://bzr.coffeecode.net/2011_boreal
> (in a bzr repository, if you're inclined to fork and develop the
> content) in HTML "Slidy" format, PDF, and ePub, and they are licensed
> under a CC-BY-SA license (so if anything fills in a gap in the existing
> documentation, it can be integrated without a licensing problem). The
> source is AsciiDoc, naturally, and my intention was to create materials
> that could stand alone if necessary but which would benefit from having
> an instructor to guide through & provide more context.
>
> One caveat: I was delivering the training to a French library, so
> all labels come from the French translation of the staff client.
> However, it would take only a few minutes to switch these to English.
>
> I did a quick search this morning and found PLS had training materials
> for 1.6.0.3, and some PINES training materials from 2008/2009 are on
> the wiki, but there doesn't seem to be very much current content
> available. Would this be something that the DIG would be interested in
> adopting? Or perhaps we could start by simply creating a "Training"
> namespace in the wiki and pulling together links to as many existing
> sources of content as possible.
>
> Dan
>
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