Re: Seneca tech comms and Fedora Docs

As one of the efforts in the Fedora/Seneca collaboration[1], the Fedora Documentation project is working with a technical communications class at Seneca College. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Seneca_College_tech_communicat... This is an extension of the new Fedora collaboration, which is building on the success Seneca College has had pairing with (primarily) the Mozilla Foundation. The basic idea[2] came up in a session at FUDCon[3]. After that, I met with Beth Agnew and Chris Tyler[4]. Beth is coordinating on the Seneca College side. She has a vision for the collaboration that fits very well with the way we do things in Fedora. We can expect students to start appearing very soon after the class starts this Fall. Our tasks: * Get a complete task list done ** Full specifications and requirements * Make a list of willing mentors to work with students For an example, I'm going to pick on Eric Christensen (Sparks): 1. Sparks completes a basic outline for the user and administrator sections of the Security Guide, with full consideration for existing content coming in from the Fedora Deployment Guide. 2. Next he and other Security Guide writers create a stand-alone task page with full details and assignments. 3. By keeping a goal on modular and sustainable work, there is plenty to give students to work on in both wiki and XML, with small and large writing/editing projects. I'm really excited about this project. It is going to bring new and passionate contributors, get multiple documents completed, and help us hammer out modern processes where we are lacking. Goals and philosophies between the Seneca College tech comms group and the Fedora Project are highly similar. I had many "Yes!" moments talking with Beth where she was describing how they do the writing class.