"how to become a docs contributor" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJXyeIS-eIU Yesterday I was helping Mel[0] with the POSSE[1] class in Singapore[2]. Basically, I covered what open source content in Fedora does (technical docs, process docs, community self-knowledge docs), the common tools and styles we try to propagate, and then walked the class through how to contribute to the release notes. The exercise was focused on editing to the wiki. I explained the rest of the process in the abstract with lots of links.[3] The class[4] are all instructors in polytechnical or business schools in APAC - Singapore, Shangai, and so forth. Ideally, they take back the "how to be an active contributor in an open source community" training to their classes. Even better, if they do classes where part of the student work is being active in FLOSS communities. You may find the IRC log[3] interesting, but Mel did a good job capturing the basics in that screencast. It is useful for showing to anyone who drops by #fedora-docs. We'll try to get an OGG version to grab from somewhere so we can have it in the /topic on #fedora-docs. :) Cheers - Karsten [0] Mel - http://blog.melchua.com/ - http://blog.melchua.com/2009/11/11/how-to-become-a-release-notes-editor/ [1] http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE [2] http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_APAC [3] I start the session at 01:53:38: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teachingopensource-posse/2009-11-12/teachingopensource-posse.2009-11-12-00.25.log.html#l-337 [4] http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_Blogs http://blog.melchua.com/2009/11/10/new-bloggers-adopt-a-lecturer/ http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Planet -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41
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