GDP Status Update - June 2009

June Accomplishments

• Four team members attended WOSCON - write-up available on lgo and sent to travel-committee: http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Community/Woscon2009

• Took the opportunity to re-organize the team focusing on Writers, Editors and Translators
  • Wiki re-org in progress (major revamp of lgo front page to make it easier to find content and get involved. Need to finish Writer, Editor and Tasks pages)
    • Translator page started by Milo Casagrande
• Committed to regular team meetings

  • Project status meeting last Sunday of every month. June recap: http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Meeting20090628

  • Bi-weekly open community question and answer sessions. Sessions held 16-JUN-2009 and 24-JUN-2009.

  • Launched team project blog at http://blogs.gnome.org/docs

• Bugzilla cleanup, including reviewing over half of all bugs, closing a third of them, and a number of commits to improve the User Guide

GNOME 3.0 Goals & Progress

• GNOME 2.28

  • Yelp 2.27.2 and gnome-docs-utils 0.17.2 released, including Project Mallard support (ShaunMcCance)

  • TODO: xml2po support and stylesheets (See June meeting minutes for details)

  • Write Empathy and Banshee documentation in Mallard as proof of concept (Empathy - Phil Bull & Milo Casagrande) (Banshee - Paul Cutler)

    • New license - CC-SA 3.0 (no more GFDL)
    • Use topic based help (instead of task based, which is what GNOME 2.2x currently has)
• GNOME 3.0
  • Re-write GNOME User Guide and Accessibility guides in Mallard as topic based help
    • Change license to CC-SA 3.0
  • Write GNOME Shell and GNOME Zeitgeist help

July To-Do

• ShaunMcCance on vacation for 3 weeks in June

• Follow up with Danilo on help with xml2po (Shaun)
• Review Empathy survey answers (Milo)

• Finish wiki page revamp (Editors, Writers & Tasks - Paul & Phil)