[FM Discuss] Notes on open source documentation from Open Source convention

[adam hyde]

the mentoring issue is an interesting one. Ubuntu Docs have a mentoring
program. I don't know how if it works well, but they have a lot of
people writing to their list asking to be part of it.

I think if we did such a thing we should be very careful to offer it on
a casual basis - an opt-in for anyone that wants it. It might even be
something that we encourage via the list only. We have 200+ subscribers
now, and its conceivable that some on the list would welcome a volunteer
mentor or some feedback...it would be interesting, for example, to see
what would happen if someone (for example, an experienced editor from a
known publisher) was to make an offer to mentor to the list...anyone fit
that profile? ;)

adam



On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 13:47 -0400, Andy Oram wrote:
> I'll toss in my agreement too. If you set up a system for evaluating
>  writers, how do you know the evaluators know what they're doing? Maybe
>  a writer has great ideas but has problems expressing them, perhaps
>  because he's writing in a non-native language. But perhaps a little
>  loving clean-up would fix it; that might escape the gatekeepers.
> 
> Andy
> 
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> I'm also in favor of accepting anyone who volunteers, and relying on
> reviews to ensure quality. People whose work is truly bad might be a
> burden to the group, but those people are unlikely to volunteer in the
> first place, because they probably don't enjoy the work.
> 
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