+1 for both the preliminary tutorial as well as a Doodle for/in November.
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Kathy Lussier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yamil, > > +1 to meeting in separate clusters and to using Google Hangouts to link > together clusters and individuals. I'm happy to go to Berklee or to C/W > MARS for the Massachusetts cluster. > > Rather than spending time at the hack-a-way introducing people to > AsciiDoc, could we post a video tutorial so that people could watch it > ahead of time? The hack-a-way may be a good opportunity for people to ask > questions about AsciiDoc as they are using it for their first time. > > How about if we set up a Doodle for November to see when people can > participate? > > Kathy > > Kathy Lussier > Project Coordinator > Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative(508) [email protected] > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier > > On 8/29/2013 9:31 AM, Ruth Frasur wrote: > > I like the idea of cluster groups if there are enough participants. I > also would be open to using Google-anything for this. While I'd love to > travel to Boston, I'm pretty sure my board and my budget would say > otherwise. Also, the idea of having an introduction at the beginning is > great. For some, I think muscling through and figuring things out would > work, but it'd be time consuming w/ varied results. If we can all start at > a common point, I think the quality of work will be more consistent. At > this point, I'm open to just about anything in November or December (with a > few exceptions not worth mentioning at this point). > > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Yamil Suarez <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> This is a second attempt to start a discussion for to planning for a full >> day DIG hack-a-way in what is left of 2013. The topic has come up a couple >> times at the DIG monthly meetings, so I hope to get the conversions going >> sooner than later. As a point of reference, last year the DIG hack-a-way >> was held at Berklee College of Music in Boston on October5th, 2012. >> >> >> I just want to start throwing out some ideas of mine or from recent DIG >> monthly meetings to get the conversation started… >> >> >> - We do not need to repeat the date or the location from last year. For >> example, I can foresee a cluster in Massachusetts. >> >> - We can meet in separate clusters, in different geographic parts >> >> - We can try using Google Hangouts for communication, as well as >> technologies like Google Drive and/or Dropbox to share files in near >> real-time. >> >> - We can spend time in the morning just introducing people on how to use >> our documentation formatting standard (AsciiDoc), so newcomers would be >> welcome. >> >> - We can try to pre-arrange to have a test server running the latest >> version of EG with the Concerto test data set, to use as a reference for >> writing documentation. >> >> >> Some ideas of what we can work on during the hack-a-way… >> >> >> - Convert and update old documentation into AsciiDoc >> >> - Fix documentation bugs reported on Launchpad or mailing list >> >> - Create new documentation for new EG features or undocumented features >> >> >> >> What do people think? Should we start suggesting certain dates or >> locations? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Yamil >> _______________________________________________ >> OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation >> > > > > -- > Ruth Frasur > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing > [email protected]http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation > > > > _______________________________________________ > OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation > > -- Ruth Frasur
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