G. S. wrote:
Daniel Wang:

I'm teaching a technical writing class right now on "document
management" and will be teaching other classes in the future.  I'd
like to set my students on the task of producing end-user
documentation.  I've been reading your posts, and it sounds like you
want contributors to work on the FAQs, which will eventually be rolled
into the mozilla builds.
that's correct.

If I coordinate the student writing and edit it, then where do we go?
I do not know. I've given up the ownership of the FAQ to the public, so I will be fine if you coordinate the work in public or in private, as long as the end result is accessible to the public.

 What's up with the Zope project?
I do not know either. You will need a multi-user account and I don't know if Zope gives you that. And Zope's requirements on HTML (a good format for publishing, but not for writing) would make me think twice. I believe the people at zope read this forum, so expect some quick reply from them on this :)

There are always tech writing classes and projects looking for work. If the submission process were more streamlined perhaps I could get a
bunch of instructors together and get some continuing effort put
toward this problem.
You will have to talk with the zope people on this.

Since you will have teams working consistantly on Mozilla documentation, it will be nice if you collect feedbacks from your students once a while and publish a newsletter on your documentation process. People who have never done tech writing (including me, before the FAQ) might be interested in reading about it.


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