Brno

Doc Sprint at the Developer Conference 2012 in Brno

Doc sprint dates: February 17-21st 2012

Conference dates: February 17-18th 2012

Venue:

February 17-18th 2012: Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (Google Maps)
February 19-21st 2012: Tower Big meeting room at the Red Hat Czech Office, Brno, Czech Republic (Google Maps)

Primary contact: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
Secondary contact: Florian Nadge <fnadge redhat com>
Tertiary contact: Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>

For the conference:
Primary contact: Jiri Eischmann <eischmann redhat com>
Secondary contact: Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek redhat com>

See also:

Relevant GNOME team

DocumentationProject

Description

Documentation sprint for GNOME 3.4.

Agenda, goals

User help:

Update gnome-help for new 3.4 features
network printer and print pages == a priority.
Update Empathy help
Write new help for more apps
For apps, should we get rid of introduction.page and place the intro on the index.page?
We need more templates in yelp-tools: guide?, index?, tip?, problem?, question?... etc.
update this page: https://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Tasks/DesktopHelp
update this page: http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Join (especially references to docbook)
update or delete: https://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Planning
Discuss possible changes to intro help page to make it more friendly to touch interfaces
Mobile-friendly XSLT stylesheets for Mallard help?
Discuss style guide / word usage guidelines

If developer docs contributors attend:

Write new tutorials
Update and revise the platform overview
Improve GObject overview (wiki page for planning)

Misc:

Sort out docs components and default assignees (Shaun? gnome-user-docs-maint@gnome.bugs? Non-existing component?) for products in GNOME Bugzilla (AndreKlapper)

Attendants and Costs

Name	Role: User or Dev	Travel	Roommate	Arrive Time	Depart Time	Confirmed
Shaun McCance	Both	$900	Phil	Feb 16 08:35 (VIE)	Feb 22	Y
Phil Bull	User	$230	Shaun	Feb 16 09:20 (VIE)	Feb 22	Y
Michael Hill	User	$900	Jim	Feb 16 10:50 (PRG)	Feb 22 09:15 (PRG)	Y
Jim Campbell	Both	$900	Michael	Feb 16 14:15 (VIE)	Feb 25 11:45 (VIE)	Y
Ekaterina Gerasimova	User	£143.98	David King	2012-02-16 18:40 (BRQ)	2012-02-21 19:05 (BRQ)	Y
David King	Both	£143.98	Ekaterina Gerasimova	2012-02-16 18:40 (BRQ)	2012-02-21 19:05 (BRQ)	Y
AndreKlapper	User	0 CZK	BaptisteMilleMathias	Feb 17	Feb 21	Y
BaptisteMilleMathias	User	240€	AndreKlapper	Feb 16 14:35 (VIE)	Feb 22 15:35 (VIE)	Y
Johannes Schmid	Both / maybe some helpmenu work	€200	Tomeu Vizoso	Feb 17	Feb 19	Y
Tomeu Vizoso	Both	Local	Johannes Schmid	2012-02-17	2012-02-21	Y
Susanna Huhtanen	User	200 €	Julita Inca	Feb 16 10:05 (PRG)	Feb 22	Y
Julita Inca	Maybe both	$970	Susanna Huhtanen	2012-02-16 21:55	2012-02-22 12:10	Y
TiffanyAntopolski	maybe both	$900	Ryan Lortie (from GTK+ hackfest)	2012-02-18 10:45am (PRG)	2012-02-22 6:15am	Y
Florian Nadge	User	Local	Local	Local	Local	Y
PetrKovar	Maybe both	Local	Local	Local	Local	Y

Interns: We love bringing our documentation interns to hackfests. In case interns are not selected before the budget is approved, we would like to budget an additional $2000 USD for them.

Venue and catering is covered by Red Hat.

How to get there

Described at the conference's wiki page.

Also see Florian's email here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2012-February/msg00001.html

Accommodation and food

Please note that travel and accommodation costs are not covered by the organizers. Refer to Travel for more information on how to request reimbursement for your travel and lodging expenses.

The organizers have special arrangements with the Hotel Avanti (Google Maps), which is situated near both doc sprint venues, to provide the attendees a discounted rate. To be able to receive the discounted rate, please confirm your attendance by January 9, 2012. In the list of attendees above, also remember to fill in your arrival and depart dates, and, since the special rate is for double-bed rooms, your roommate.

Free WiFi is available in the hotel.

More information on the lodging options can be found at the conference's wiki page.