New Documentation section in Forums/Open Source (was Re: wait with messages)

[Richard Gaskin]

As promised, thanks to Heather's work in helping me sort out some PHPBB 
permissions issues, we now have a forum for Documentation in the Open 
Source section of the forums:
<http://forums.runrev.com/viewforum.php?f=83>

One way I see this as becoming a productive working group is for 
proposals for documentation enhancement to be explored in the section 
there labeled "Brainstorms", and when they become refined to the point 
of being actionable they get elevated to the "Projects" list below it.

Ideally each project would have a team of people in a position to carry 
it through, perhaps with a team leader to facilitate whatever 
coordination may be needed among team members and the relevant RunRev staff.

As your Community Manager, I'm at your disposal to help remove any 
obstacles you may encounter along the way which impair successful 
completion of Documentation projects.  If resources to complete a 
project, whether code or human, are needed from the core dev team at 
RunRev, please let me know so I can be sure to discuss that with the 
team at first opportunity.

--
   Richard Gaskin
   LiveCode Community Manager
   richard at livecode.org

The other day I wrote:

> The core team at RunRev has been working on a rewrite of the User Guide
> for a future version, where the scope of changes in the engine will very
> much require it.
>
> But in the meantime there's been much discussion in my meetings with
> them about the possibility of an interim update, which will be needed at
> least through the remainder of the v6.x series and possibly into v7.
>
> I recently created a new section in the Forums for "Documentation" -
> it's not yet active (Heather and I are sorting out a PHPBB issue), but
> the goal there is to see if our community is at the place yet that all
> good open source projects eventually arrive, where we're big enough to
> have a Documentation Team among community members.
>
> The folks at RunRev have been anticipating that, and have included Docs
> in their outline for community contributors:
> <http://livecode.com/community/contribute-to-livecode/#%20Writing%20Documentation>
>
> To get started we'd need only about three to five people, with one of
> them willing to be the team leader.
>
> If anyone here is interested in participating please drop me a note and
> we'll get that discussion going just as soon as Heather and I can put
> the new Documentation forum online.
>
> --
>   Richard Gaskin
>   LiveCode Community Manager
>   richard at livecode.org