If there is sufficient interest to get a team together, I can probably attend. I can drive over from Indiana. I see that our Janet Swisher will be speaking. So we could definitely organize a sprint.
On Wed, April 10, 2013 8:39 am, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Hi Gonzalo, > > thanks a lot for forwarding that invitation. > > Both the conference and the sprints sound like a great opportunity to > update Sugar documentation (especially looking towards 1.00 / 0.100) and > connect with others working in that area! > > Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to attend myself as the prices > for > flights from Europe are very close to reaching their summer-high in > mid-June (e.g. the absolutely cheapest option which I could find for > Vienna-Cincinnati-Vienna would cost ~€830). > > Plus after the outcome of the documentation sprint in Boston last April > (which left much to be desired) and our failure to be accepted at the > Google DocSprint at the end of the year I think it might be a good idea to > have new blood lead any such efforts. Daniel Francis has repeatedly > expressed his interest in documentation lately, maybe someone can support > him in putting together a team of kick-ass documentation ninjas for the > event. :-) > > Cheers, > Christoph > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Forward information about OpenHelpConference invitation. >> >> Gonzalo >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Shaun McCance <sha...@gnome.org> >> Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:18 AM >> Subject: XO Help and open source docs conference >> To: Gonzalo Odiard <godi...@gmail.com>, Brian Jordan <br...@laptop.org>, >> David Farning <dfarn...@sugarlabs.org>, Bastien Guerry <b...@altern.org> >> >> >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm the team lead for the GNOME documentation team, and the developer >> of the documentation viewer and tools used in GNOME. I'm emailing you >> because you're all listed as the developers of the XO Help activity. >> >> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4051 >> >> For the last two years, I've been running a conference that focuses >> on documentation and support in open source and open communities. >> The third Open Help Conference is this June. >> >> http://openhelpconference.com/ >> >> We regularly get contributors to projects like Mozilla, OpenStack, >> FreeBSD, and of course GNOME. The two-day conference portion has a >> heavy emphasis on open, attendee-led discussions, with only a few >> presentations to spark the conversation. >> >> We also host a number of teams for doc sprints for three days after >> the conference. Sprint attendance is not mandatory, and each team >> runs its own sprint. The teams do get together to share thoughts >> and hang out. >> >> Do you think anybody within the Sugar and OLPC communities would >> be interested in attending? I think it's a shame that Sugar and >> GNOME people don't talk more often, and I'd love to meet anyone >> interested in documentation. >> >> Let me know if you have any questions. >> >> Thanks, >> Shaun >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Gonzalo Odiard >> >> > > > -- > Christoph Derndorfer > > volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] > editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] > contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] > > e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/निशब्दगर्ज/نشبدگرج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep