As you've probably noticed on https://groups.drupal.org/node/470648 -- we're planning to create a new Drupal 8 User Guide. The Twin Cities Drupal Camp is coming up on June 25-28, and they invited me (along with Joe/eojthebrave who was already going to be there), to jump start the User Guide project by holding a documentation sprint on their community sprints day, Sunday June 28. So, we're going to do this!
The User Guide project coordinators will be setting up tools, guidelines, templates, and an outline before the day of the sprint (or at least we are going to do our best to get all of that in place; forgive us if it may be a bit rough to start with, but we'll have something that everyone can work with at least).
Then on the day of the sprint, both local and remote participants will be able to choose a topic from the outline and write it, hopefully adapting existing Drupal.org documentation as much as possible.
If you can make it to Minneapolis on Sunday the 28th, we'll see you there in person! Information about the sprint location is at:
http://2015.tcdrupal.org/drupal-core-and-contrib-sprints
(and from there you can find general information about the conference, how to get there, etc.).
If you cannot make it to Minneapolis in person, you can also participate remotely. We'll be in IRC in the #drupal-docs channel from 9:30 AM to 5 PM (Minneapolis/Chicago time zone). So, you can join us there and we'll find you a topic to work on. IRC information:
https://www.drupal.org/irc
Let's get this going!
(And sorry: we probably won't be ready to have anyone start working on this project until the 28th. It takes a bit of coordination...)
Before the sprint
It will be very helpful for sprint participants to learn how to use Git (clone a repository, make changes to one or more files, and create a patch file) before the sprint. Ways to learn this:
- Read the Novice Contributor documentation: https://www.drupal.org/novice
- There is also some really detailed documentation in the Git section of the Drupal.org community docs: https://www.drupal.org/documentation/git (check out the Installation section, then https://www.drupal.org/node/707484 and other pages in the Tutorials section may also be useful)
- Attend Drupal Core mentoring hours, which are oriented towards making patches for the code and documentation in Drupal Core (so mostly for PHP or JavaScript programmers): https://www.drupal.org/core-office-hours
- If you are attending the Twin Cities Drupal Camp in person, go to the Get Involved in Core sprint long enough to get set up with Git before moving to the User Manual sprint table: http://2015.tcdrupal.org/drupal-core-and-contrib-sprints
That said, if people who do not know how to use Git attend the sprint, we won't turn them away... but it will be easier if you can manage to learn the Git basics before the sprint. Thanks!