Hi Helen, Good luck in getting the new /etc site finished. We are currently caught in the deep end of working with Drupal ourselves. In fact, we can't wait for it all to be finished, I know how hard this kind of thing is...
> great that you've had a holiday & looking forward to seeing you on thursday, Ah yes, we are seeing you on Thursday - better get some wine & food ready :-) wishing you well. marc > thanks for highlighting this, marc : ) the posts are actually more > about the /etc (eclectic tech carnival) web site sprint than the > civircrm floss manual sprint, altho i use that as the starting point for > a reflection on sprint-as-process in general. > > & in case anyone is wondering, we haven't yet made the new /etc site > live - it's nearly there but we are still doing user testing & last bits > of the design before we launch it; so if you follow the url from my > first blog about it, you'll still get the old site. it's a pretty > massive job to get done in a week, i reckon we got about 80% of it done > - especially the hard bits at the beginning working out what we needed > within a drupal context. & we got all the fun bits like staying up late > drinking wine & talking done as well : ) > > great that you've had a holiday & looking forward to seeing you on thursday, > h : ) > > On 5/07/10 5:13 PM, marc garrett wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Just been catching up on various things. Some great entries form Helen >> Varley Jamieson on the Furtherfield Blog http://blog.furtherfield.org - >> and thought that some of you may be interesting in reading it... >> >> Helen discusses her experience in taking part in the floss manuals >> sprint (http://flossmanuals.net/), >> >> "...developing a manual for CiviCRM - http://civicrm.org/ (which is >> something that i use with the magdalena aoteroa - >> http://magdalenaaotearoa.org.nz/ site). in this sprint, a group of about >> 15 people met somewhere in the USA to create a manual for CiviCRM, and a >> few more of us were online, doing things like copy-editing the content. >> most of the time there were people active in the IRC channel, chatting >> about the project and about other things going on around them, so that i >> could get a sense of their environment, time zone and the commeraderie >> generated by the intense process." Helen. >> >> sprint as process >> http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/335 >> >> midway in the sprint >> http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/336 >> >> last day of the sprint >> http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/337 >> >> ------> >> >> I have been following the progress of floss manuals for a little while >> now, and at Transmediale10, went to a presentation which was held by >> Adam Hyde and peer group members at the festival, and found the project >> inspiring. Their themes, interests and motivations come from a similar >> context and place as furtherfield's. I was actually keen in taking part >> in the recent sprint myself, but unfortunately, just had no time at all >> to get involved. >> >> wishing all well. >> >> marc >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
