[PD] PD Documentation Meeting / Notes

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Yes, it was a good meeting, its good to know that there are a lot of 
people interested.

All of the info is on the PDDP wiki.  I tried my hand at a template, 
starting with Ben's template-4:

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Anyone else want to give it a shot?

.hc

On Nov 22, 2005, at 3:49 PM, B. Bogart wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> The next PD Documentation/Workshop/Curriculum Meeting will be:
>
> Nov 29th, 2005
> 11.00 Pacific Time
> 14.00 Eastern Time
> 19.00 UTC
> 20.00 Central European
>
> #dataflow on freenode again.
>
> Here are some notes on today's meeting (Nov 22nd)
>
> * we all seemed to agree that Unicode would be great in PD.
>   (This is one of those pd-dev cross-over issues)
>
> * When is translation done? Per module? Per phase?
>   How do we keep from redoing translation work?
>
> * Problem of relative font sizes on platforms
>   (We need to fix this before the templates are really final, since  
> they
>   need to be tested and working on all platforms)
>
> Different Aspects of "Documentation":
>
> Curriculum:
>  - Collection of Tutorials
>
> Reference
>  - PDDP Reference (one for each object)
>  - All_about (reference for a theme (eg looping))
>
> reference links to all_about patches
> all_about links to reference patches
> all_about links to tutorials
> tutorials will link to all_about patches
>
> Documentation can depend on one external, pddp_link.
>
> Style Guide:
> * Reference Templates should fit on a 800x600 screen.
> * Change template-4 to use template-6 colours and template-6 "more  
> info"
> * Colour Coded templates for tutorials and all_about patches.
> * Make sure colours work on a greyscale printer
>
> Ben has taken on the responsibility of creating for PDDP reference
> templates based on the discussion @ the meeting above.
>
> For the nest meeting:
>
> * deal with the font issue.
> * Look at and evaluate new templates for reference
> * start tutorial and all_about templates
> * standard GUI elements
>
> then the rest of the agenda from last week, which is more like a todo  
> list:
>
>   - Philosophy
>      - How should PD be taught?
>      - Rules for developing tutorials/workshops/curriculum
>
>   - Programming (overlaps with pd-dev discussions)
>      - Meta data for patches/tutorials/etc..
>      - "Help" menu
>
> HCS will post the log from the meeting at http://puredata.org/dev/pddp
>
> Thanks all for coming today
>
> b.
>
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