Hi: Welcome to the Docs Project! I'm also a new contributor, and I think that I can provide some useful feedback to help with your idea to document the "mentoring process." Through June, July, and August, I took part in the Fedora Summer Coding effort (now called "Fedora Students Contributing"), and wrote the Musicians' Guide (that should be published soon). So, I will be watching this list, but please feel free to ask me to help out where appropriate. Christopher. On 10/27/2010 06:10 AM, docs-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > ... > Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:31:21 -0500 > From: Jes?s Franco <tezcatl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Membership requests to Docs FAS Group > To: For participants of the Documentation Project > <docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: quaid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <20101027013120.GC2677@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:22:06AM -0400, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote: >> > I just sent a message to six people that requested membership in the >> > Docs project (via the FAS group) but did not complete the other >> > requirements, namely the introduction on the list. These requests are >> > from between 14 September and 15 October. I'll revisit the queue next >> > week to determine whether or not these people have met the membership >> > requirements[1] or not. If not I will remove them from the queue. >> > >> > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_Docs_Project#Yes >> > >> > --Eric > I wonder if we could think about some "Bounty tasks" to become > contributors at Documentation Project. Something like mizmo wonderfull > idea to engage more active contributors. Around concrete and > not-so-scary design tasks: Docs tasks at this group, of course. Maybe > a specific Beat, or pages marked as "need love" (again, not so > scary). And guiding them through the process of making a successfull > contribution, getting more confident contributors to commit later > bigger tasks. > > As "eating my own dogfood", i want to ask someone interested in > mentoring "me" (remember, i'm kinda sort of first test pilot on this > idea). I'm actually an active translator on the wiki and at a few > guides. But i'd like: > > 1: to help at Docs project to reorganize the pages under its scope > * Maybe marking at first place as "Old-for archive" really not very > useful at this very moment. I talked a few weeks ago with jjmcd > about jumping on this train, but i think i need a most slow > approach, and maybe there is not much time until after release > party. > > 2: Starting *some* guides for digital literacy. > > * I talked with Rudi about an idea we are talking on Fedora LATAM: > Escuela Fedora. As #fedora-classroom it's an idea for teaching new > skills to contributors, but there is a real need for more outreach > as M?ir?n show us with her projects this year teaching Inkscape and > GIMP. A guatemalan Ambassador: Edna Rheinier, and Damaris Trujillo, > have teached too high school girls, on Inkscape and Gimp and gived > talks about women in free software and Fedora Project, of course. > > * We have too, some wonderful ideas on TOSS (on collaboration on > real world in free software projects) by K. Wade and Greg > DeKoenigsberg, P2PU ("peer to peer university") and > CollabOERation. It's hard to outline a full book, but i think > i'll be ready at this weekend to show a first draft of chapters > and the first chapter. > > Said this, i'd like to document the mentoring process if someone wants > to help, from having the initial idea, upto getting an usable book, > ready for translation. This would make too "raw data" for a first > course about "Fedora writer first steps" as we are talinkg too at > Fedora LATAM. And a potential first course on future Escuela Fedora > project. > > I think will i need to apply to docs-writer group in FAS, and > docs-publishers when i've accomplished the first version, right? > > ---- > In summary, > > i think a Documentation Challenge could be a good compromise between > having a docs group "invite only" (having sponsored the in by his/her > mentor at real), and being open and getting best documented our > processes. > > Let me know what do you think, if you'd like to be "my" mentor (you > know, documenting publicly the whole process), just drop me a dent > @tzk on identi.ca if you have a little bit of time. > > Thanks in advance, and peace for all. > > Jes?s Franco > Translator and Ambassador > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tezcatl > > P.S. I cc'ed this message to Karsten Wade with my apologies for not > getting in touch for edusol summit. A quick look at my wiki page could > tell you why that project failed since they don't wanna anything to do > at this moment, with OpenSource projects, sadly. > > > ------------------------------
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