As you might know Ross and I have put considerable time into working on a chapter structure for a book on Single Source Publishing with Forrest. Since we didn't follow through with the project (there will only be a German book) we are prepared to donate this structure (more precisely: the rights to this concept for an English publication) as a basis for the Forrest documentation project.
It might need some adjustments of course, but it was designed to introduce people with basic skills to Forrest so it seems compatible with what Addi had in mind. If people think this is helpful, I'd check the OpenOffice file with the concept into the issue tracker so that people can study it and add their comments and suggestions (preferably as a modified OpenOffice-document). Or is OpenOffice too proprietary to work with? Once we have finalized the chapter structure, we could create it as a new tab on Forrest main site with each chapter becoming a menu item pointing to a page with a short abstract for this chapter (not being written yet) and instructions on what to do if person wants to write and contribute this chapter. All open chapters could also become items in the issue tracker but I think that having them in a structured menu helps recognizing at what point in the documentation this chapter is placed and what its purpose is. I'm in favour of not writing a whole lot of basic documentation as FAQs and standalone documents because the unstructured web of docs created that way is much harder to comprehend (getting lost in the web) and also a pain to maintain in the long run. -- Ferdinand Soethe
