1. User Help Hackfest

Toronto, Canada; March 17-22, 2011

Primary contact: Shaun McCance <shaunm@gnome.org>
Local contact: Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>

1.1. Relevant GNOME team

1.2. Description

Members of the GNOME documentation team will meet up to do as much as they can to finish the user help for Gnome 3.0. Developer documentation may be included.

1.2.1. Agenda, goals

Complete the new desktop help for Gnome 3.0
Complete or review help for core Gnome applications
Time permitting, add more content to the new Style Guide

If there are people working on developer documentation:

Finish the new Platform Overview.
Write more tutorials for the new developer demos.
(and Gnome3PortingGuide?)
Time permitting, review and improve gtk-doc reference (low priority).

1.2.2. Attendants

This is a tentative list of people:

Name	Arrive date/time (flight)	Departure date	Confirmed	Need room?
RyanLortie	(local)		Y	N
TiffanyAntopolski	(local)		Y	N
Shaun McCance	16, 14:45 (US3560)	23	N	Y
Phil Bull	17, 16:05 (AC857)	23	Y	Y
Jim Campbell	16, 21:20 (AC512)	23	Y	Y
Natalia Ruz	17, 06:10 (AC93)	23	Y	Y
Johannes Schmid	16, 17:35 (LH470)	23	Y	Y
Germán Póo-Caamaño	16, 18:55 (AC180) - Terminal 1	23	N	Y

1.2.3. Remote Participation

We welcome remote participants. You can connect with us two ways:

We'll be on the #docs channel on irc.gnome.org (see DocumentationProject/Contact)
We'll be using as asterisk server thanks our friends at Fedora. Point your SIP client to 2008@talk.fedoraproject.org

1.2.4. Schedule

We have a loose schedule, which we will update throughout the conference. All times are EST (UTC -0500)

Thu 17th, 09:30-13:00: topic brainstorming for gnome-help
Thu 17th, 14:00-evening: dish out gnome-help topics to people
Fri 18th, 12:00-13:00: Seneca lunchtime talk, room TEL 1009.

Extra user help tasks:

Update Empathy help for post-freeze changes
Update Epiphany manual for post-freeze changes

1.3. Venue

The venue is at the Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) at Seneca College, York University campus. http://cdot.senecac.on.ca/ (map)

The campus is physically located just within the northern boundary of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Our hosts are being particularly kind by providing us with evenings and weekend access to the venue.

1.3.1. Current sponsors

1.4. How to get there

Please arrive on the 16th so that we can start working on the morning of the 17th.

Lester B. Pearson International (YYZ) is Toronto's primary airport and is nearby. The airport is extremely well-connected. Because there are not many people, we will pick you up as you arrive and deliver you to either the hackfest location or hotel, as appropriate. Please call Ryan (+1 905 929 0197) with information about any irregularities that may impact your pickup.

1.5. Accommodation and food

We're staying at the Super 8 in Vaughan. It is just outside Toronto and is a short bus ride from the university campus. The hotel features free breakfast and wifi. We are welcome to use the breakfast area for some 'after hours' hacking (and wifi works there). The rooms will be twinned accommodation with two beds. There is also a pool with a water slide.

The rooms have been booked as follows:

Name	16		17		18		19		20		21		22		23
	Room 0: 16 to 23 (7 nights), booking 105167
Shaun	in	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	out
Jim	in	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	out
	Room 1: 16 to 23 (7 nights), booking 105168
Johannes	in	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	out
Germán	in	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	out
	Room 2: 17 to 23 (6 nights), booking 105169
Phil			in	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	out
	Room 3: 17 to 23 (6 nights), booking 105170
Natalia			in	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	..	**	out

A total of 26 nights have been booked at a cost of CA$92.88 per night (special rate), plus 13% sales tax for a total accommodation cost of CA$2728.80. This was the final accommodation cost of this hackfest.

The hotel is adjacent to some cheap (if not awesome) choices for food:

McDonalds
Tim Horton's (primarily a coffee and donuts place, but also sandwiches, soup, etc.)
Quiznos (good quality 'sub' style sandwiches)
Made in Japan Teriyaki Experience (noodles and rice)
a couple of non-chain restaurants: an Italian one and a Mediterranean one

We can probably go into the city on a night or two.

The building in which CDOT is located contains a cafeteria with some reasonable choices:

Tim Horton's
Pita Pit (good wraps with cooked-to-order meat and lots of fresh veggies)
Grill Works (burgers, grilled chicken sandwiches, etc)
Pizza Pizza (very popular Canadian pizza chain; this location has 'personal' sized pizzas and slices)
an Asian-style stir fry type place
some others...

All in all, we can probably eat there each weekday without getting bored. On the weekends only the Tim Horton's is open, and this particular location doesn't serve sandwiches and soups, so we may have to figure something else out for those days.

1.5.1. Previous discussions, organization threads, drafts, relevant links, etc