> 1) Decide on the task(s) I guess the two most obvious tasks are the User Guide, as before, or the FAQ. I haven't properly looked into the FAQ, so I don't know if it's in a suitable state to immediately put things in.
If we decide on the UG, then I think we should make it clear what we mean by a 'section' - ie, a single page (in docbook terms, the lowest leaf of the <sectn> tree). If we decide on the FAQ, then Lauri and I will probably need to get to work on moving it out of kdebase. We'll also need to decide on whether to have a set of questions for which we want answers, or to allow any question (with answer). > 3) Decide on judges Hopefully, someone who isn't me will volunteer to judge, but failing that, I guess I can do it. Having more than one person judging would also be a good idea - so, any volunteers? > 4) Decide on dates I think we should start as soon as we can, and give a one or two week window for submissions, maybe longer. The advantage would be that we then give people enough time to get around to writing (it's quite time-consuming, I find), although it would have the problem that we'd need/want to keep interest up over a longer period. > I leave the first and third questions to the docs team :) > As for the second, we can either have on prize for the best entry, or > several. The plan we discussed at aKademy was to use the remaining O'Reilly > gifts, and once they run out to show O'Reilly how good it makes them look > and ask for more. We have one problem though: somebody took a lot of the > books from the orga office at aKademy without asking us, so we're down to: > * Two O'Reilly t-shirts > * Three C++ reference books > * 'Free as in Freedom' by Richard Stallman > We could just ask O'Reilly up front, but they might knock us back, which > would ruin the whole idea. Maybe we can just run with those prizes? I think that would be enough prizes to start with. As to the number of prizes, I guess it depends on the number of entries, which, er, we don't know yet... I suppose several prizes means several happy people at the end, so I'd suggest that, but I'm not really certain. > btw: please reply to both lists, or only to kde-quality if the docs team > are OK with representatives relaying info back. kde-doc-english readers: does anyone here object to this thread being taken over to kde-quality? Cheers, Philip -- KDE Documentation Team: http://i18n.kde.org/doc Online KDE Documentation: http://docs.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-doc-english/attachments/20040904/c2aa16b4/attachment.sig
