Martijn Faassen wrote:
Hereby I announce in absolute adhoc anarchistic fashion the Zope Documentation Project. The Zope Documentation Project aims to generate documention on anything Zope.
Thank you, Martijn, you've made my day! This is extremely cool. As you might expect, here at digicool we're yearning to produce more and better documentation, and, as with other things, we want to have more time and energy to do it than we do. This kind of effort from you, and from anyone else who can help, is *severely* appreciated. I know i'll be participating - question is, besides scraping together the time we can, how else can digicool help? Some thoughts, below...
The Zope Documentation Project needs people who wants to help. It needs these people to get organized.
To get focused, I propose the ZDP's initial project is to provide FAQs on various Zope topics. We can mine the mailing list for good questions and answers.
The ZDP asks everybody to contribute. Right now we need everything. :) We need questions and answers, and we need to categorize these in separate FAQ sections. We need Zope webspace somewhere to put up the FAQ, I assume using the FAQ product. We need to develop the FAQ product further, if necessary. We need whatever you can think of.
The prime mean of communications for the ZDP is the Zope mailing list, until further notice. I suggest that to keep the mailing list somewhat organized we prepend our mailing list subjects with '[ZDP]'. If somebody has a better way, we'll do it a better way.
Some thoughts: - We would be happy to provide a mailing list or two for you all - If it makes sense (logistically, for us as well as for you), we could host the FAQ stuff or whatever on zope.org. This we'll have to discuss - both what all might want, and what we can safely and effectively do... (I've been thinking about requirements for a collaborative FAQ mechanism, which can be tricky if you want it to be available for contribution to the community in general, yet still remain organized enough for people to find what they're seeking. An interesting problem...)
Note that while I'm sending out this message, I'm not anything
official.
I'm just attempting to get the ball rolling.
*nudges the ball*
Yay! Ken klm@digicool.com