Seneca tech comms and Fedora Docs

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 10:43 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> As one of the efforts in the Fedora/Seneca collaboration[1], the Fedora
> Documentation project is working with a technical communications class
> at Seneca College.
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Seneca_College_tech_communications_class_plan_2008-2009
> 
> This is an extension of the new Fedora collaboration, which is building
> on the success Seneca College has had pairing with (primarily) the
> Mozilla Foundation.  The basic idea[2] came up in a session at
> FUDCon[3].  After that, I met with Beth Agnew and Chris Tyler[4].  Beth
> is coordinating on the Seneca College side.  She has a vision for the
> collaboration that fits very well with the way we do things in Fedora.
> We can expect students to start appearing very soon after the class
> starts this Fall.
> 
> Our tasks:
> 
> * Get a complete task list done
> ** Full specifications and requirements
> * Make a list of willing mentors to work with students
> 
> For an example, I'm going to pick on Eric Christensen (Sparks):
> 
>         1.  Sparks completes a basic outline for the user and
>         administrator sections of the Security Guide, with full
>         consideration for existing content coming in from the Fedora
>         Deployment Guide.
>         
>         2. Next he and other Security Guide writers create a stand-alone
>         task page with full details and assignments.
>         
>         3. By keeping a goal on modular and sustainable work, there is
>         plenty to give students to work on in both wiki and XML, with
>         small and large writing/editing projects.
> 
> I'm really excited about this project.  It is going to bring new and
> passionate contributors, get multiple documents completed, and help us
> hammer out modern processes where we are lacking.  Goals and
> philosophies between the Seneca College tech comms group and the Fedora
> Project are highly similar.  I had many "Yes!" moments talking with Beth
> where she was describing how they do the writing class.

Karsten -- thanks for kickstarting this collaboration.  I added myself
to the mentors list so I can help give entering students a helping hand
as they learn our project and processes.

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Paul W. Frields
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