Pre-Sprint Brainstorm

Community topics:

Interest has been expressed in providing some non-coding sprint opportunities (e.g. Plone marketing, plone.org, documentation, plone.net could be included).

Proposal 1:

One or Two day post-conference sprint for non-technical folks that focused on the ‘needs, hopes, and pipe dreams’ of NGOs for their communication and collaboration technologies.

Background: Sometimes people using Plone (as with most types of software) as users or non-developers are unclear about how to go about making their improvement and feature ideas heard (i.e. we are not going to write PLIPs, don’t want to come off like support-grubbing neophytes, etc.

Goal: We could talk about how to create better channels for this in addition to the actual ideas themselves and hopefully capitalize on the brain trust in attendance at the conf.

Proposal 2: Documentation

See also:  Documentation Project , Plone screencasts

One or Two day post-conference sprint that focuses on documentation. Any person who would like to write or any person who is in need of documentation could work on it here.

Background: Earlier this year we held a virtual documentation sprint where the documentation tab was reorganized and all documents on plone.org were reviewed.

One effective form of documentation is screencasts because they can quickly give the user a good overview of how a product works.

We have begun collecting a list of Plone screencasts that could be made, and perhaps during this sprint would be a good time to create some of them.

Goal(s): We could take this many different directions but the main goal is to improve documentation that is available on plone.org. Documentation could be advanced or basic. We could write tutorials or how tos. People could submit requests for documentation before the sprint and we can tackle whatever comes up. Or perhaps a developer has a product and just hasn't had time to create documentation- this could be a time for a developer to team up with a writer and crank out some good documentation.

Proposal 3: Marketing

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