Yaron, I'll see if I can round up some interest at my company to give back...
But personally, I'd like to contribute to the effort. Is there something like a Fund Jar ala MediaWiki Fund Drive (http:// wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Now/en) where we can make contributions? Best, Joel On Jan 7, 4:23 pm, Yaron Koren <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > It's come up repeatedly from talking to people, and from my own experience, > that one of the biggest weaknesses of the Semantic MediaWiki system, if not > the biggest at the moment, is the lack of a good document to explain things > to beginning users. This is not a knock on the documentation on > semantic-mediawiki.org and elsewhere, which is all very helpful; but there's > no substitute for a linear narrative that explains every detail and how it > fits into the bigger picture. Specifically, I think the most needed > documentation would be an online tutorial video that explains Semantic > MediaWiki and some of its extensions. I propose to create such a video. > Because of the very large amount of information involved, the plan is to > actually divide it into ten parts, each of which could be viewed on its own. > You can see my proposed outline for this video here: > > http://yaronkoren.com/smw-tutorial-video/ > > Given the size of the project, I don't think I can do it without funding. If > you, your company or your organization could benefit from the existence of > such a video - whether it's to learn more about the system yourself, to help > educate your employees or wiki co-editors, to make potential clients more > comfortable and knowledgeable about it, or just because you believe in the > SMW project and want it to grow - please consider funding the project. I'm > not asking for money yet; I just want to get a sense for whether funding of > this video is possible. > > Sponsoring this project could also allow you to have more input on the > actual contents of the video before it gets completed, and also to have your > organization's name listed as an official sponsor. If you're interested in > sponsoring or otherwise funding this project, please let me know how much > financial support you would be willing to provide. > > And of course, donations for my other work on SMW extensions are always > welcome; if you want to send funding simply as a way to sponsor the work > I've done so far, that would be very much appreciated too. > > Thanks, > Yaron --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Semantic Forms" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
