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Currently working on targeted review and improvements to Sakai 2.8 help files. Latest Conference Call June 29, 2011. A conference call was held January 19. See notes. A first conference call was held. See notes.https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.8BD62DED7684B09FFA8A85473A0039&sid=2009099 |
It has now become clear that the Sakai out of the box (OOTB) help files are suffering from a lack of attention. This everlasting issue has been lingering for the longest while, with bursts of interest occurring here and there, as the following links demonstrate (this list is incomplete, please add yours):
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Recent threads on the "Sakai User" list has generated interest in this process. It's now time to walk the talk.
Who's Interested?
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Note: Discussion on this topic occurs primarily on the documentation@collab.sakaiproject.org mailing list. To subscribe, go here: [http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/documentation]
Who's Interested?
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Mathieu Plourde | mathieu@udel.Alan Regan | alan dot regan at pepperdine dot edu | Pepperdine University of Delaware | Ideas, workflows, leadership content (Needs Assessment/Ideas, Standards, Editorial Board, Writing, Project Management) Alan Regan | alan dot regan at pepperdine dot edu | Pepperdine University | Ideas, workflows, content (Needs Assessment/Ideas, Standards, Editorial Board, Writing) |
Lorie Stolarchuk | lorie@uwindsor.ca | University of Windsor | Pain points of current situation, integration joys/woes of Brock's MediaWiki, ideas (time permitting ) | ||||
Robin Hill | hill@uwyo.edu | University of Wyoming | Content, editing... whatever I checked on Alan Regan's form (Standards, Editorial Board, Writing) | ||||
Sean Keesler | sean.keesler@threecanoes.com | Three Canoes | Project Management, Writing, Workflows, Editing | ||||
Matt Clare | Matt.Clare@BrockU.ca | Brock University | We're more than happy to share our documentation at http://kumu.brocku.ca/sakai A lot of MediaWiki experience. Big advocate of ease-of-edit and radical trust. | ||||
Greg Doyle |
| University of Cape Town | Writing | ||||
Margaret Wagner | mwagner@umich.edu | University of Michigan | Ideas, Writing | ||||
Trisha Gordon | psg3a@virginia.edu | University of Virginia | Content, editing, ideas | ||||
Kara Stiles | kstiles@rsmart.com | rSmart | Content, Writing | ||||
Rafael Morales | rmorales@udgvirtual.udgd.mx | University of Guadalajara | Localization | ||||
Adam Marshall | adam dot marshall at ox.ac.uk | Oxford uni | content (& video scripts) | ||||
Matt Schneider | matt.schneider@jhu.edu | Johns Hopkins University | Content creation, Editing, ideas | ||||
Whitten Smart | ws15@txstate.edu | Texas State University - San Marcos | Ideas, Writing, Editing | ||||
Amber D. Evans | adevans@vt.edu | Virginia Tech | Ideas, workflows, leadership (Needs Assessment/Ideas, Editorial Board), CONTENT/WRITING, Styleguides/Standards (templates, XML, etc.). I developed all of the customized documents (many for more advanced Sakai users) on the OLCS web site at http://www.olcs.lt.vt.edu/scholar/scholarHandoutsAutoIndexer.html | ||||
Jon Hays | jonmhays@media.berkeley.edu | UC Berkeley | Ideas, content, accessibility | ||||
Clay Fenlason | clay.fenlason@et.gatech.edu | Georgia Tech | Content, editing, Sakai OAE | ||||
Jeff Ziegler | ziegler@umich.edu | University of Michigan | Workflows, Writing, Editorial Board, Needs Assessment/Ideas | ||||
Sonette Yzelle | syzelle@unisa.ac.za | University of South Africa Yzelle | syzelle@unisa.ac.za | University of South Africa | Ideas, writing & editing | ||
Barb Kerns | brk@bradley.edu | Bradley University | Writing, Editing. We have a custom documentation site (in Drupal) at http://sakaihelp.bradley.edu. | ||||
Kerrie Stephenson | kerrie.stephenson@hull.ac.uk | Hull University | Ideas, writing, editing | ||||
Patrick Lynch | p.lynch@hull.ac.uk | Hull University | Ideas, writing & , editing | ||||
Barb Kerns | brk@bradleyKim Eke | kim_eke@unc.edu | Bradley University | Ideas, writing, editing |
Some areas of contribution to consider: Project Management, Needs Assessment/Ideas, Accessibility, Standards, Editorial Board, Writing, Programming/Development, Workflows, Localization (Internationalization/Translation), Screenshots/Videos.
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- Sakai Knowledge Base, managed by Indiana: https://www.indiana.edu/~sakaikb/
7. What are the difference between help files and other documentation?
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