Re: FUDCON Malaysia Docs Hackfest

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Personally, I would appreciate a renewed "Security-Enhanced Linux:
User Guide," which hasn't been published since Fedora 13.


Christopher.

On 04/20/2012 12:31 AM, Joshua J Wulf wrote:
> On 04/20/2012 02:17 PM, Christopher R. Antila wrote: Hi:
> 
> I won't be at the FUDCon Malaysia, but this sounds like a VERY
> GOOD IDEA!!!
> 
> What about mass editing at future FUDCons? We have lots of Guides
> at various states of being out-dated, and we could really improve
> the state of the documentation simply by publishing all of what we
> already have.
>> I'll trial it at this FUDCON and if it's successful we can do it
>> at future ones. A "book per FUDCON" would rock. The new tool* is
>> all about breaking down large documentation projects into
>> microtasks that can be completed in parallel, so it's a good use
>> case.
> 
>> The resulting doc will still require an editor, obviously; but
>> it's a good way to harness the critical mass of a FUDCON.
> 
> 
>> What current or potential docs could do with the love this time
>> round?
> 
>> - Josh
> 
>> * We're still looking for a name - suggestions welcome! 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789243
> 
> 
> 
> Christopher.
> 
> On 04/19/2012 08:03 PM, Joshua Wulf wrote:
>>>> I have an idea for an interesting technological and social 
>>>> experiment around docs for the Malaysia FUDCON.
>>>> 
>>>> We have a topic-based authoring tool that we're using to
>>>> develop documentation inside Red Hat at the moment, called
>>>> Topika.
>>>> 
>>>> Last year I sponsored an intern project to integrate it with
>>>> FAS, so it has a FAS authentication module.
>>>> 
>>>> I can spin up an instance in OpenShift or EC2 with FAS auth,
>>>> we can choose a book that we'd like to see for Fedora, and
>>>> one that matches the prevalent area of interest / expertise
>>>> of the attendees of the FUDCON.
>>>> 
>>>> Then I can design the topic map for the book.
>>>> 
>>>> Then at the FUDCON we work with the organisers to make it a
>>>> feature of the FUDCON that we will crowdsource the book in
>>>> the three days of the FUDCON. Every attendee can log into the
>>>> Topika instance with their FAS account, and write one (1)
>>>> topic, using the supplied template.
>>>> 
>>>> We'll rebuild the book every five minutes on a stage so that 
>>>> attendees can view the progress.
>>>> 
>>>> If it works, then it could a viable way to get a book per
>>>> FUDCON.
>>>> 
>>>> What do you think?
>>>> 
>>>> - Josh
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua J Wulf" 
>>>> <jwulf@xxxxxxxxxx>  To: docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent:
>>>> Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:48:27 AM Subject: FUDCON Malaysia
>>>> Docs Hackfest
>>>> 
>>>> Hey, anyone in docs going to FUDCON in Malaysia?
>>>> 
>>>> Anyone docs hackfest organised for it?
>>>> 
>>>> - Josh
> 
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