| pleia2 | godbyk: someone accidentally put a full article in our UWN draft for "Public draft of Getting Started with 12.10 is available for proofreading" - do you happen to have a link to ths announcement so I can fix this? :) | 16:44 |
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| pleia2 | (or anyone) | 16:45 |
| pleia2 | a mailing list link is fine, just can't have full articles in UWN itself | 16:45 |
| CarstenG | hey pleia2 | 16:52 |
| CarstenG | you mean this link? | 16:52 |
| CarstenG | https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual/msg03778.html | 16:52 |
| pleia2 | perfect! thanks :) | 16:53 |
| CarstenG | You are welcome :-) | 16:54 |
| godbyk | pleia2: That was me. Sorry 'bout that. I didn't realize you wanted links only. | 17:20 |
| godbyk | pleia2: I may have missed the newsletter deadline, too. If that story won't go out until next week then it will probably be too late. | 17:20 |
| pleia2 | godbyk: no worries, we link to a lot of articles so we can't really give anyone space for full text of anything :) | 17:20 |
| pleia2 | and yeah, it goes out on Monday | 17:21 |
| godbyk | pleia2: Ah, okay. Then you can cut the Ubuntu Manual article/link. | 17:21 |
| godbyk | We should be finished with the public draft Monday so I can finalize everything for publication by the 18th. | 17:21 |
| pleia2 | ah, ok | 17:22 |
| * pleia2 ponders | 17:23 | |
| pleia2 | I don't usually do this, but if you need it posted to planet I can put it on my blog (I have a story to go along with it, so I can rationalize to myself do it) | 17:23 |
| godbyk | pleia2: That'd be cool, if you don't mind. Otherwise I can probably find someone else to post it, too. | 17:23 |
| godbyk | pleia2: And if you want more info to fill out the 'story', let me know. I'm happy to answer questions, etc. | 17:24 |
| pleia2 | oh, just that I'm bringing a print copy of the 10.04 edition with me to Ghana (we're deploying Edubuntu 10.04 desktops, I leave tomorrow!) and have the digital copy loaded up on USB sticks :) | 17:25 |
| pleia2 | donating the print copy to one of our contacts there | 17:26 |
| godbyk | Oh, neat. That sounds like it will be a fun trip! | 17:26 |
| pleia2 | should be quite the adventure :) | 17:27 |
| godbyk | We're also finishing up work on a few translated editions of 12.04: Dutch, Spanish, and Slovenian. | 17:32 |
| godbyk | I'm excited about the Spanish and Slovenian translations as we haven't had those before. Spanish is one of the most-requested languages for us. | 17:32 |
| pleia2 | ok, published, should land on planet soon: http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=6971 | 17:52 |
| thorwil | pleia2: interesting that you emphasize ease of contribution, while what i saw from the feedback, that was (is?) seen as a problem, actually | 17:56 |
| thorwil | the technical barriers to entry | 17:56 |
| pleia2 | thorwil: it's never going to be perfect, documentation is hard | 17:56 |
| godbyk | pleia2: Awesome. Thanks! You'll have to let us know how your trip goes, too! | 17:56 |
| pleia2 | but the manual team is by far the easiest place to get involved documentation-wise in Ubuntu | 17:56 |
| godbyk | thorwil: Contributing is more difficult than I'd like, but we try to make it fairly easy. | 17:57 |
| pleia2 | I keep trying to work with ubuntu-doc to at least document what people can do to contribute, but there is a chicken and egg problem of the core contributors being too busy to train new people and help me develop these documents :( | 17:57 |
| godbyk | thorwil: If you have a few web developers, I have some ideas on improving the process greatly. ;-) | 17:57 |
| godbyk | pleia2: I noticed that. I always feel bad when I see someone email the list asking how they can help. | 17:58 |
| thorwil | pleia2: i'm happy to hear if things are good compared to similar efforts. just slight worry about expectations your text might raise | 17:58 |
| thorwil | godbyk: i could say the exact same thing | 17:58 |
| pleia2 | thorwil: ok, I made a couple alterations to the text to emphasize that it's "easier" rather than "easy" | 17:59 |
| godbyk | thorwil: About the manual project or docs team? | 17:59 |
| thorwil | pleia2: cool, ty | 18:00 |
| pleia2 | (it seems easy for me, but I actually write docs in DocBook and LaTeX, so I'm the wrong audience :)) | 18:00 |
| godbyk | I set up most of the process we're using, so I'm a bit biased. :) | 18:00 |
| godbyk | There are definitely some sticking points and things I'd like to improve, though. | 18:00 |
| godbyk | Unfortunately, I don't have as much time to devote to the project as I'd like at the moment. | 18:01 |
| godbyk | (The translation process in particular is much more onerous than it needs to be. Launchpad's translation system is not designed to work well with long strings of text.) | 18:02 |
| thorwil | godbyk: i think you use your resources very efficiently | 18:03 |
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