Open Help conference
There's a conference coming up in Cincinnati Ohio USA that might be of interest for Drupal Docs folks, in June:http://openhelpconference.com/I probably won't be able to attend (just got back from...
View ArticleCall for Community Docs Moderator volunteers
UPDATE July 2012: If you want to be a Community Documentation Moderator, you can get started without reading this whole discussion! The instructions are now at:http://drupal.org/node/1588928--- Here's...
View ArticleDocumentation Working Group
As you probably know, over the past several months, Dries Buytaert has been formalizing the governance structure of the Drupal project, by forming a number of governance committees. A few weeks ago, he...
View ArticleThis Month in Drupal Documentation
Here's an update from the Documentation Working Group (DocWG) on what has been happening in Drupal Documentation in the last month or so. Sorry... because this is posted in the Core group as well as...
View ArticleThis month in Drupal Documentation
This is the monthly update from the Documentation Working Group (DocWG) on what has been going on in Drupal Documentation. Because this is posted in the Core group, comments for this post are disabled,...
View ArticleThis Month in Drupal Documentation - November 2014
Here's an update from the Documentation Working Group (DocWG) on what has been happening in Drupal Documentation in the last month or so. Sorry... because this is posted in the Core group as well as...
View ArticleDrupal 8 Help Review sprint for Global Sprint Weekend, January 17-18
The Drupal community is having a Global Sprint Weekend on the weekend of 17-18 January, 2015. You can join a local sprint in your area, or participate remotely via IRC.Either way, the Documentation...
View ArticleNew Drupal group: DITA Tech Comm CMS
Hi,There is a brand new Drupal group related to DITA XML-based documentation:DITA Tech Comm CMShttps://groups.drupal.org/dita-tech-comm-cmsI'm posting this announcement here because the group is still...
View ArticleBook "Drupal 7 – the Essentials" being added to the community wiki
I am very happy to announce that I (finally!) am publishing my book Drupal 7 – the Essentials in the documentation section on drupal.org!The book covers basic and advanced site building with Drupal...
View ArticleThis Month in Drupal Documentation - April 2015
Here's an update from the Documentation Working Group (DocWG) on what has been happening in Drupal Documentation in the last month or so: a successfull Documentation sprint at DrupalDevDays, and more...
View ArticleThis month in Drupal Documention (May 2015)
Here we are again with an update from our Documentation Working Group (DocWG) on what has been happening in Drupal Documentation in the last month or so. Because this is posted in the Core group as...
View ArticleDrupal 8 User Guide - Inaugural Update
Wow! Thanks to everyone who commented on our proposal to create a Drupal 8 user guide. We read all of the comments carefully, and have made a plan for how to get this manual written, edited, and...
View ArticleUser Guide project - Outline posted!
As you probably know, we're working on creating a User Guide for Drupal 8. We started working on the actual content about two weeks ago, and several topics are in progress. We started writing before we...
View ArticleThis Month in Drupal Documentation - June 2015
Here's an update from the Documentation Working Group (DocWG) on what has been happening in Drupal Documentation in the last six weeks: the successful start of the Drupal 8 User Guide and 929 edits on...
View ArticleThis Month in Drupal Documentation - August 2015
It's been a busy month in Drupal documentation land. Here's an update from the Documentation Working Group (DocWG) on what has been happening in Drupal Documentation in the last month or so. Sorry......
View ArticleDrupal 8 is out -- let's get the User Guide done!
As I'm sure most of you know, Drupal 8.0.0 was released a few weeks ago (and 8.0.1 has already followed). There was much rejoicing, after several years of development!On a slightly shorter time scale,...
View ArticleUser Guide - Copy editing time!
I'm pleased to announce that the User Guide has an all-but-complete first draft! (There are 3 topics that haven't been written, but they are all just about done.) So, it's time for the next phase: copy...
View ArticleUser Guide 8.x-2.0 released!
At long last, the copy editing of the User Guide is done! (If you've been a member of this group for a while, you should know what I'm talking about; if not, go browse the archives at...
View ArticleUser Guide is live on Drupal.org (finally!)
I am very pleased to announce that the English version of the User Guide is live on drupal.org, at last! You can see it athttps://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/index.htmlYou will also see links on...
View ArticleTranslating the User Guide
Several of the active Drupal translation groups have noticed that we now have a User Guide on Drupal.org... Today, I'd like to formally announce that the User Guide is open for translation!The Catalan...
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