Would you like to request a block of time for this on the hackathon schedule? -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 6:33 PM Sharan Foga <sha...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi All > > I am bringing this thread up again as we are looking at the topics to add > to the Hackathon in Las Vegas. I'd like to add this documentation hack - so > next we need to find some projects that need help with their documentation > that will also be present in Las Vegas. > > Thanks > Sharan > > On 2019/05/03 20:30:39, Sharan Foga <sha...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi All > > > > Recently with the Google Season of Docs, quite a few of our projects > were interested in applying to get some help with their documentation, so > I’m thinking, what if we try and add some sort of documentation section to > our ApacheCon hackathons. > > > > If we have enough people from a project community we could start at a > very basic level e.g writing up some install or very basic getting started > docs. > > > > Another idea is that the projects who weren’t successful in getting a > technical writer with Season of Docs, bring their idea and have a hackathon > or Birds of a Feather session during ApacheCon to plan, prepare or write > something that could help. > > > > At one of the previous open source summits I attended I saw a > presentation on what they called ‘Book Sprints’ where a group of people got > together for a fixed time period and then wrote the documentation and > pubished it. While we may not have the same time frame, perhaps doing at > least a documentation proof of concept could be interesting for both Las > Vegas and Berlin. > > > > What do people think? > > > > Thanks > > Sharan > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
