Moreover, and perhaps most importantly, if I can figure out the gist of what you are doing, I would like to write an article about it. This proposed article would be published by the Society for Technical Communication, which could possibly garner a significant amount of writers with a variety of backgrounds, skills, and talents.
But first, it looks as though your documentation process is in dire need of organization. Speaking on behalf of the industry, we abhor chaos; it is our job to eradicate ambiguity and confusion. Right now, I am completely lost; although, I did manage to find my way here in under 20 minutes, which is a good sign.
Sincerely looking forward to hearing from someone, Angela Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mitchell Baker wrote:
What do you mean by organizational structure? A website organization? A person?
mitchell
Gervase Markham wrote:
My second point is that I have seen _at least_ 10 documentation writers (even professional ones) proposing their help in this very newsgroup. The only mozilla.org staff member who ever answered was Gerv. But he had nothing to answer, because there was no structure for the documentation. I do not see myself telling one of those writers with a full-time job "write a document about I-don't-know-what then do everything I did (see above) to publish your doc". The net gain from these 10-or-so writers was zero.
Mitchell - Fabian made this very important point, which you seem not to have commented on. We badly need an organisational structure which allows _someone_ to grab such people and give them something to do. We are wasting a boatload of offered resource. Do you have any thoughts?
Gerv
