Vangel V. Ajanovski wrote:
I don't think I have the right knowledge to start and organize the whole effort, but I am willing to help and share what I can.
In 2002 I attended one of the uPortal developers conferences, mostly to learn more about uPortal and ended up volunteering to take on the role of uPortal documentation coordinator. I certainly didn't have much knowledge about uPortal at the time but I wasn't *writing* documentation about uPortal, I was only trying to keep it organized. A couple of years later we started using Confluence and most of the uPortal documentation on static html pages was used to the wiki, and over time lots of pages where created but as is the case with most wikis it became disorganized. That was addressed somewhat with the creation of the uPortal manual spaces, and then evolved again when work on the main Jasig site and uPortal/CAS sites was contracted out. I'm not sure how the uPortal Documentation steward role will be defined today, now that some of the uPortal documentation is being managed by a commerical entity, but when I was coordinating it, it was all on my own time purely on a volunteer basis. My organization did provide some support of my uPortal/Jasig activities by funding participation in conferences but that's not happening anymore and since I'm no longer doing any work with uPortal, and other Jasig projects, my participation in the community, other than supporting the conference web site, is almost non-existent at this point.
I guess what I'm suggesting is that a uPortal Documentation steward position doesn't necessarily require a great deal of knowledge about uPortal but it may require a significant commitment in time to do it successfully.
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