Handbook Working Group – Let’s do this, take two!

Despite a banging start, with a lot of talented people showing interest and willingness to make the Community documentation better, I failed at keeping the group going, due to biting on more than I can chew.
It happens.

What is so great about having things published in the blog and in TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. is that other people can adopt the project, so here we go again!

Rocìo @_dorsvenabili has kindly offered to continue with the project and enrich it with another layer that will make it even more impactful for our global community.

I won’t spoil anything, but I ask you please to re-commit to the group if you can or join it anew if this is the first time you heard about it! Leave your SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. name in the comments, thank you!

If you want to read more before raising your hand:

Thanks!

#community-handbook, #handbook

Proposal: existing documentation to be merged into the handbooks

We some seriously amazing content in the blog that could be merged or at least linked into the handbooks.

Here is the list with the actions that I propose we take:

Proposed WordCamp Editorial Calendar

Create a new page in the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Organiser Handbook > Publicity > Website Content ✅

Promoting Your Local WordPress Meetup

Create a new page in the MeetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. Organiser Handbook > Promoting your Meetup ✅

What makes a WordPress Meetup Great?

Create a new page in the Meetup Organiser Handbook > Building and growing a meetup > A collection of videos to inspire you ✅

do_action Zurich 2018

Link in the Meetup Organiser Handbook > do_action: Charity Hackaton ✅

WordCamp Design Kit Producing assets and finding a…

Merge in the WordCamp Organiser Handbook > Publicity ✅

Collecting ideas & methods for Meetups promotion / growth

Merge in Meetup Organiser Handbook > Summarise together with the “Promoting your local WordPress Meetup” post above ✅

Handbook Page: WordCamp Marketing/Ticket Sales Tips

Merge in the WordCamp Organiser Handbook > Publicity ✅

Contributor Day Room Signage

Merge in the Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. Organiser Handbook ✅

Contributor Night – An experiment in Torino, Italy

Add a page in the Contributor Day Organiser Handbook > Other Contributor Events ✅

Also: change the name of the handbook from Contributor Day to Contributor Events ✅

Deadline: July 22nd. If no one objects or points out different possible places to have this content, I will go on and do it 🙂

Thanks!

#documentation, #handbook

The Handbook and the Future

Plan is Dead, Long live the Handbook. At least that is my thought. I think the handbook is the future and we should kill Plan once and for all.

I know we have a notice on the home page of plan, but many people find the old outdated (and sometimes incorrect) info there. We redirect them to the handbook when we find out, but it would (in my opinion) be so much better if we could simply kill plan and redirect to the handbook. We’d only need 1 redirect – more would be unmanageable.

What do others think? @_dorsvenabili @andreamiddleton @camikaos @chanthaboune @brandondove @miss_jwo @iandunn @kovshenin

#handbook