[ckan-discuss] Overhauling CKAN documentation: call for participation

Mon Feb 15 16:52:00 GMT 2010

Good call Antti!

Guess first step for these would be to put together a transcript. Has
anyone done screencasts before? Know any good software to do this with
(esp. on Linux)?

Jonathan

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com> wrote:
> Screencast videodocumentations are good
>
> 1. Intro video what is CKAN for whom and why 3 minutes
> 2. Registering video 1 minute
> 3. Adding new data set 2 minutes
> 4. Modifying existing dataset 1 minute
> 5. Bulkupload and other advanced features 5-10 minutes
>
> -Jogi
>
> Rufus Pollock wrote:
>>
>> A major overhaul/improvement of the CKAN documentation is planned and
>> this is a call for help! Main thing to emphasize is planned division
>> between:
>>
>>  * User docs/manual - for end users of a CKAN installation
>>  * Developer/Coder docs - CKAN code (plus API) plus sysadmin (INSTALL etc)
>>
>> Focus of CFP is the user manual. I've put an overview and plan here:
>> <http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/doc/> Comments very welcome. Main
>> take-aways:
>>
>> * User docs: help wanted -- please add yourself to the wiki page if
>> you are interested in helping out
>>  * User docs will be located somewhere we can all collaborate so I
>> suggest using the wiki: <http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/doc/>
>>
>> * Dev docs: need to live close to code so best place is probably in
>> mercurial repo at /doc/ - will be done mainly by developers
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rufus
>>
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