[Zope] Use the sour..... contribute to the ideas of how to improve documentation and information about Zope

[Paul Everitt]

Thanks Chris, I meant to follow up to Heimo's post as well.  I went 
looking through the supplied links, and clearly a good bit of time was 
spent thinking about how to improve things.  Anybody that puts in that 
amount of work deserves credit, so thanks Heimo!

FWIW, this page:

   http://www.zope.org/Resources/ZOST/ZopeOrgReorg/DocumentationSection

...describes some of the thoughts collected on the zope-web mailing 
list.  I plan to use this as a guide for getting the basics in place for 
a nzo (new.zope.org) milestone.

Heimo, we could *definately* use you on the new.zope.org project.  All 
you have to do is subscribe to the zope-web mailing list.  nzo will be 
organized around a more formal idea of sections and section owners. 
Documentation is the section that will get the top priority attention.

I'll repeat the call: if you fit the following profile:

a. You think zope.org should do a better job of attracting people to 
Zope and serving existing zopistas.

b. You're willing to devote hours working to make it happen.

c. You have skills in writing/editing, html design, zope programming, or 
even system administration.

...then PLEASE come join us.  Subscribe to zope-web and bug me for some 
tasks.  I hope to have a Milestone One put together for review by this 
mailing list, and I hope to make it happen this month.  But even the 
basics take hours.

"We need you.  Won't you take the time, to give just a little?" 
(Americans will note the Sally Struthers tone with starving children 
fading onto the screen.)

--Paul

Chris McDonough wrote:
> Thanks for writing this Heimo.. it's great to see folks taking an 
> interest in docs.  I am supposed to get new.zope.org online soon, and 
> maybe we can try to fold some of these ideas in.
> 
> - C
> 
> 
> Heimo Laukkanen wrote:
> 
>> Hi all again,
>>
>> from the last posts I have been really busy working, but now I spent a 
>>  small event of time writing some content to the wikis about the 
>> documenttation. I will continue but please contribute and let's 
>> discuss what kind of things we would need to work on as a community.
>>
>> Log into the zope.org and then go to page:
>>
>> http://www.zope.org/Wikis/Docs/DocumentationBrainstorm
>>
>>
>> Besides the raw ideas, you could also try to write stories about the 
>> perfect world from the perspective of different users. This is a great 
>> way to actually get information about what would the experience of the 
>> user learning to use Zope would need to be:
>>
>> http://www.zope.org/Wikis/Docs/UtopiaVision
>>
>> It is in the beginning stage, but please - contribute.
>>
>>
>> And please also note the information that is already present:
>>
>> http://www.zope.org/Wikis/Docs/FrontPage
>>
>>
>> -huima
>>
>>
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