[FM Discuss] OpenMRS

[adam]

you need 5-10 people in real space and a facilitator + as many as you
can get remote. Thats the ideal set up. Its quite important to have that
realspace team. You can do it all remote but its tricky...best to keep a
small unit working like crazy in one place and have the others feeding
on that energy remotely.

having a facilitator is *critical* - that person should not contribute
to content if possible (having a facilitator creating content removes
their 'neutrality' and blurs their vision - best to keep their head as
clear as possible and above the general text so they can best steer the
team to the finish line).

generally the sprints are 3-5 days. 5 days is pretty much maximum. You
can do in 2 days quite a lot but i prefer a minimum of 3.

use the time as 2-3 hours making the table of contents. NO MORE. this
forces the table of contents to be clear and not too extensive or
complex. 

the rest of the time is spent writing with 1/2 a day (3 day sprint) to 1
day (5 day sprint) clean up.

adam



On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 10:19 -0700, Brylie Oxley wrote:
> Here is a message from Ben Wolfe regarding the OpenMRS book sprint. Can
> anyone please help me clarify the process?
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: FLOSS Manuals - OpenMRS #1]
> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:50:08 -0400
> From: Ben Wolfe <ben at openmrs.org>
> To: Brylie Oxley <brylie at gnumedia.org>
> 
> 
> Very cool!  Whats the standard size of an fm sprint?  We could provide 
> 5-10 people easily probably and it seems like there would be another 
> 5-10 from the FM comm.  I would guess another 5-10 from the openmrs comm 
> would want to help too.
> 
> Its usually a week, right?  And how important is it for everyone to be 
> in the same place?
> 
> Ben
> 
> On 08/14/2010 01:12 AM, Brylie Oxley wrote:
> > Hey Michael and Ben,
> > I am forwarding the rest of the FLOSS Manuals discussion regarding
> > OpenMRS so that we are all on the same page :-)
> >
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> >
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:01:17 -0700
> >> From: Brylie Oxley<brylie at gnumedia.org>
> >> To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> >> Subject: [FM Discuss] OpenMRS Manual
> >> Message-ID:<1281463277.1901.31.camel at Tahoe>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> >>
> >> I have been talking to Ben Wolfe of OpenMRS about documentation and he
> >> seems interested in creating an OpenMRS FLOSS Manual. He also seems
> >> interested in conducting a book sprint to kick the project off. Is
> >> anybody here interested in contributing to an OpenMRS FLOSS Manual?
> >>
> >> Here are some relevant resources:
> >> http://openmrs.org
> >> http://openmrs.org/wiki/OpenMRS_Manual
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> >> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:06:30 -0400
> >> From: Andy Oram<andyo at oreilly.com>
> >> To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> >> Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] OpenMRS Manual
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> >> This project interests me a lot. My company, O'Reilly added a health
> >> care track to our Open Source conference, and this project was
> >> mentioned. There are some interesting questions about how much to
> expect
> >> from readers--both concerning computer technology and concerning the
> >> health care field--and I'd like to engage in discussions like this for
> >> planning.
> >>
> >> The manual would benefit from a "why" section, which formed a big part
> >> of the CiviCRM manual.
> >>
> >> ------------------------------
> >> ------------------------------
> >>
> >> Message: 5
> >> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:52:10 -0700
> >> From: Adam Feuer<adamf at pobox.com>
> >> To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> >> Cc: Adam Monsen<amonsen at grameenfoundation.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] OpenMRS Manual
> >> Brylie,
> >>
> >> The Mifos project recently did a manual using FLOSSmanuals - it turned
> >> out great!
> >>
> >> We Mifos people are close to OpenMRS in other ways, so we'd like to
> >> help. And certainly, a Book Sprint is the way to go. This is what
> >> really boosted us - in quality and in completeness.
> >>
> >> cc'ing Adam Monsen who coordinated our book sprint, in case he's
> interested.
> >>
> >> -adam
> >> --
> >> Adam Feuer<adamf at pobox dot com>
> >>
> >>
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> >> Message: 6
> >> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:50:19 -0400
> >> From: Edward Cherlin<echerlin at gmail.com>
> >> To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> >> Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] OpenMRS Manual
> >> Absolutely. OpenMRS is associated with Partners in Health, the best
> >> health care NGO in the world.
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> BRYLIE OXLEY
> GNUmedia.org 
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