barage of recruitment

Gavin Henry ghenry at suretecsystems.com
Mon Sep 19 08:22:52 UTC 2005


<quote who="Karsten Wade">
> I've started a barrage of recruitment for relnotes and beat writers, as
> you may have seen.
>
> My intention is to lean on developer leaders to choose people within
> their project to be the beat writer.  They can hand it off later, but
> not divorce the software project from its responsibility to document
> itself.
>
> I think our focus needs to move away from us supplying writers for every
> documentation need.
>
> In open source, writers arise where they are needed.  Many developers
> are more than capable of providing raw content themselves.  This is what
> makes http://developer.mozilla.org tick.
>
> So, I'm taking on the developers.
>
> Gavin -- I haven't fully given up on writers who come in by themselves
> and want to pick a beat.  Please concentrate your ideas and efforts on
> attracting talent from the writer pool.

Got ya.

>
> This is where we want to point people, so they understand what the job
> entails:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/HowTo
>
> It's obnoxiously easy, especially for someone already involved in the
> project.
>
> cheers - Karsten
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