[Bsod-mentors] Re: Bsod-ideas and comments

[Tim Wakeham]

I'm not going to correct anything there, David.

I will add though that I do think a unified template is required, first
being official documentation i think we should have a header which indicates
this, secondly we very much need a unified style for the project to keep the
unified feeling we are trying to achieve with the theme.

Dolf, would you be interested in developing a template, something simple and
not over-the-top?

-Tim

On 5/19/06, David Millet <david at tellim.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Macouno,
>
> Hopefully I give you good information here.  Timmeh or Ton, please let
> me know if I am out of line or wrong about any of this :)
> > I'm wondering though, is it the general consensus that the end result
> will end up in
> > Wiki pages? Or is it an option to add something to the blender.org site?
> Or even
> > make it downloadable in one package?
> >
> > It might be a good idea to keep the resulting docs sepparate from the
> existing wiki
> > docs, since this is basicly going to be "official blender
> documentation"? Or is
> > everyone of the opinion that we should in fact try to fill gaps in the
> docs that are
> > already there?
> >
> The wiki docs ARE the official blender documentation.  The license
> restrictions that we're requiring the authors to write under fit well
> into the blender wiki, as well.  Even if the documentation is written
> elsewhere, it will need to be written under the license restriction,
> which will then allow it to be copied to the blender wiki by anyone.  As
> for whether or not authors should try to fill in gaps in the Blender
> Manual on the wiki, that is up to them.  I imagine that most proposals
> will be to fill in portions of the 2.4 Blender Manual, but proposals to
> fill in blanks in other documentation, such as the Game Engine docs or
> the Go Pro! book on the blender wiki that I've barely touched, will be
> considered as well.  Writing for Noob to Pro is out of the question,
> since wikibooks.org has an incompatible license.
> > I agree that we shouldn't overcomplicate submissions. People's writing
> styles and
> > skills will be represented in their submission synopsis.
> >
> ... yes and no.  People will write differently depending on the audience
> and the goal.  We should require a writing sample that reflects what
> they are proposing, whether it's something they've written previously
> and can copy & paste for us, or whether it's something they have to
> write on the spot.
> > I think assigning a mentor to each author is a good idea, but I don't
> think there's so
> > much mentoring to be done that you'd need a 1 on 1 connection. Mentors
> can
> > handle multiple authors I'd say.
> >
> Never having done this before, I would like to keep it simple for
> myself, personally.  I only want to mentor one person because I don't
> know how much mentoring will be required for that one person.  If I have
> to connect with multiple authors as they're writing, I'm afraid I might
> not be able to be as attentive as I would like.  On the other hand, if
> the author I'm mentoring is on the ball, I might not need to spend much
> time mentoring at all.  It's hard to say at this point, but to be safe,
> I'd like to mentor a single person, unless we're really tight on mentors.
>
> spiderworm
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