[PD] documentation sprint WAS: Call for GSoC mentors! March 9th deadline!

[Derek Holzer]

Probably will do parallel Pd FLOSS Manual sprint in Berlin at same time 
as NYC one. Early to mid-April? Will post more on this later when I have 
a chance to draw up some outline for this.

best!
Derek

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> Yes, that is good.  We could have a documentation sprint at the next 
> PdCon.  I think we should have something like a 5 hour session where we 
> just sit and work on documentation.  We are also trying to organize a 
> FLOSSmanuals Pd book sprint, probably NYC, but also other locations as 
> well.  The more the merrier!
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Mar 6, 2009, at 9:33 PM, Kyle Klipowicz wrote:
> 
>> True that! I would be way more useful writing documentation than code. 
>> If there was an opportunity like GSoC for that, I'd jump on it.
>>
>> ~Kyle
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:04 AM, chris clepper <cgclepper at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:cgclepper at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl
>>     <mailto:derek at umatic.nl>> wrote:
>>
>>         I already asked, and GSoC doesn't cover documentation, or else
>>         I would have pitched the Pd FLOSS Manual in there as well. But
>>         go for it with the GLSL/framebuffer coding stuff!
>>
>>
>>     That is really a shame since most open source projects need way
>>     more documentation done than coding.  Maybe they will have a
>>     Winter of Docs?
>>
>>      
>>
>>
>>
>>         chris clepper wrote:
>>
>>             My own suggestion for a GEM project would be to create a
>>             tutorial and accompanying manual that covers the basic
>>             operation.  The other idea involves making the more
>>             advanced features like GLSL and framebuffer rendering
>>             easier to use.  These are mainly documentation projects,
>>             but also have some Pd, and possible C++ coding as well.


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