On Apr 4, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Jessica Tomechak <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Chip Childers > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:53:51PM +0000, Radhika Puthiyetath wrote: >>> My two cents >>> >>> We should go to conferences specifically meant for writers, and market >> CloudStack. That way, we could attract good freelancers. >>> >>> The other way is to reach out to students and offer internship to those >> who are interested in writing. ..In the due course, both parties are >> mutually benefited: Students get good industry exposure on cutting edge >> technology, whereas we might get good writers to work on CloudStack docs.. >>> >>> -Radhika >> >> If you or others want to do some outreach, then how can we support you >> in that goal? I think it would be a fantastic use of time, if it >> results in some additional help! >> > > > One way the community could help is by making sure the "How to Contribute > to Docs" part of our wiki is a great as it can be.[1] I feel like our docs > process is pretty straightforward and well explained, witness that several > contributors have been able to self-teach from this wiki. But if anyone > wants to add more examples, tutorials, etc., that would be awesome. > > I suppose we could add a "Why to Contribute to Docs" writeup. I'm not sure > that's something that can be won by persuasion, though. Better to find the > people who are already energized about docs than try to convert the > doubtful. > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Documentation+Contributors+Overview > > Jessica T. FYI, in case you missed it, I wrote a chapter in the dev guide on how to write docs….
