[Bf-docboard] Blender Proceedings

[Raindrops From Sky]

Thanks, Roger.

To sum up, Ton's intervention is critical at this juncture, because with
just 2-3 (part-time?) people, we cannot achieve any of those goals you
mentioned.

Unless Ton attracts more volunteers with some incentive or hires a few
professionals as a full-time job, the situation is not going to change.
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The worst-case scenario (assuming there is no resource-allocation for
documentation):*
1. We simply accept Mont29's suggested new TOC. No more dithering on that
one.
2. Translations are out. We stick to English.
3. No major changes to the site-structure. We go ahead with what we have.
4. We quickly identify who is going to contribute this round, and who can
spare some time to guide them.
5. We split the work (e.g. I can quickly take various screenshots of Blender
and upload them all in a folder.)
6. Link to videos only from individual topic pages of the wiki. No more
showcases (what Andrew made recently)
7. Create a YouTube sister channel to host videos, with reciprocal links to
the wiki.

Frankly, the structure seems too complicated to me. Rather than struggling
with legacy issues, can we have a plain vanilla mediawiki+pdf export
extension? (Drupal is also fine IF someone is ready to handle the
complications)

Wikify everything (no plain web pages), and throw it open to volunteers.
Admin will have to handle creating new pages whenever anyone requests.

Then we can create a new TOC starting at top, and create branches for UM,
API docs, etc. Leter port whatever we want from the existing site, and then
decommission it.

BTW we should know what decisions were taken at the Blender Conference 2010.
New proposals tabled in it would be finalized by now.
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