Hi all, (hope this is the right mailing list to discuss KDE documentation in general. If not, please advise where a better place is)
I was wondering what the state of the KDE documentation team is. Some of the docs are pretty outdated and also our software, prominently KHelpcenter (which ironically apparently still lists me as main developer in the about box) is lacking behind. There wasn't much innovation in KDE documentation land lately. But I think we should change that, and in order to do that we need a strong documentation team. So please understand this as an attempt to help with bulding up new strength for the KDE documentation team. There are quite a few things we could do to help with that. One and foremost I think it's a question of coordination. We do have great documentation efforts, the classical documentation, new approaches like Userbase or the knowledge base on opendesktop.org, or also the forums, and of course there is all what's happening for all the distributions which are shipping KDE, and much more. So bringing this all together, stimulating some development of new technology, maybe a rethinking of some of the assumptions we do (e.g. is it still essential to be able to print an applications manual), all this could freshen the KDE documentation effort and improve the experience for our users. So please let me know, what's the state of the KDE documentation team, what ideas do you have how to improve the situation, what can we do? One of the obvious ideas would be to get together the people who are working on KDE documentation for a face-to-face meeting. But to be able to organize that we need a better idea of who cares about KDE documentation, and where we are heading. All input is welcome. Regards, Cornelius -- Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>
