SOP creation made easier

[Mel Chua]

Since we were directly inspired to create the Marketing SOPs by seeing 
how much good it's done Infrastructure to have them, I thought I'd share 
some back - we made a template and a SOP for making SOPs to make the 
SOP-generation process itself easier on folks who might not want to 
spend a lot of time on wiki editing.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Creating_a_Marketing_SOP
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Template:Marketing_SOP

They're both marketing-specific at the moment, but could be cloned for 
Infrastructure in a few minutes.

Another way to make it even easier to make SOPs would be to use 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox, which would give you a 
text field with a button next to it; if you type a title into the text 
field and hit the button, it throws you straight into the Edit page for 
a new page with that title, with a template you prespecify already in 
there. If someone wants to implement that extension, I'd be happy to do 
the wiki work needed to document/use it for various types of 
pages-that-should-be-easy-to-create once the extension is installed.

--Mel

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Marketing SOPs
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:24:30 -0500
From: Mel Chua <mel at redhat.com>
Reply-To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora 
user base	<fedora-marketing-list at redhat.com>
To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base 
<fedora-marketing-list at redhat.com>

One of the projects we have between now and Alpha is to document how to
create each of our primary release deliverables in the form of a SOP[0].

You can see our current SOPs here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Marketing_SOPs#How_to_contribute. Some 

are more polished than others.

Of course, I had to start by making a SOP on how to make SOPs. :)

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Creating_a_Marketing_SOP

It makes use of the (also new) Marketing SOP template,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Template:Marketing_SOP. That template is
meant to be a suggestion/aide to make life easier, so don't feel
compelled to stick to it if you think a different format will work
better for you.

--Mel

[0] Standard Operating Procedure - we used to call them "HOWTOs," but I
switched the term to be more consistent with the terminology other teams
use (specifically,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Infrastructure_SOPs). The HOWTO
pages have been redirected/recategorized to reflect this.

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