[FM Discuss] 5 days to go! Wordpress Book Jog - please help!

[Tomi Toivio]

Hi,

Whazzup with WordPress?

Seems like it is time to update the Finnish version, now we should
synchronize activities a bit so that it isn't updated separately for each
language?

Regards
Tomi

2011/9/1 mick fuzz <mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org>

> It's 5 days to go for the Book Jog. It would be great if more people could
> get involved in these last stages to help polish up what is already there
> and fill the existing gaps.
>
> We are doing pretty well at 120 odd pages so far.
>
> If you log in and go here - http://booki.flossmanuals.net/wordpress/_edit/
> Then you'll see an intro chapter "Read this if you are here for the Book
> Jog" which has more info on where we are up to.
>
> nice one
> mick
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:27 AM, mick fuzz <mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org>wrote:
>
>> http://blog.booki.cc/2011/08/wordpress-flossmanuals-book-jog/
>>
>> Note the extended date, now till 5th September, after all there's no real
>> rush and I'm going to be offline for a week from Thursday.
>>
>> I'm going to try and involve more people locally by going and bothering
>> local groups in Manchester, UK. Manchester Free Software group and
>> Manchester Wordpress Users group tonight and tomorrow.
>>
>> Hopefully they'll help out. But do spread the word, then hopefully I
>> won't have to write it by myself!
>>
>> I'm learning a few things about doing this slower remote book sprint and
>> trying to co-ordinate it.
>>
>> 1) having a tool that allows a few people to work on notes simultaneously
>> like google docs would be very helpful for IRC type meetings - using the
>> notes tab means you are likely to overwrite each other.
>> 2) Having some kind of welcome message or splash page for new people
>> would be handy logging in when there is no one there - at the moment there
>> is a temp chapter called - Read this if you are here for the book jog
>> 3) Watching the logs of who has done what and following it up with
>> messages is a good idea - knowing more about messages would be good - this
>> page could maybe do with updating to reflect that.
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/Booki-User-Guide/ch018_communicating/
>> 4) Creating a structure with chapters, and some notes in there to
>> encourage people to write it is good
>>
>>
>> nice one
>> Mick
>>
>
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