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Re: Google Summer of Code [message #31364 is a reply to message #31310] Fri, 25 February 2011 11:41 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
gprentice is currently offline  gprentice
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koldo wrote on Mon, 21 February 2011 05:11

Hello Graeme

I have added your idea. Please review and complete it, specially the extra credits.



Sorry for the delay but due to a catastrophic earthquake here in Christchurch NZ, I've had no power or water for the last 3 days. I'm fine though, unlike a few people.

Regarding the extra credits
1. Converting to PDF - we can do this already, right? I know nothing about it but the table of contents and preferably also the index, need to become a clickable table of contents and a clickable index and also the links need to work - may be a bit of a challenge. Perhaps a project on its own.

2. Convert to google docs format - this was just a wild thought because it's a google thing. Google docs allows simultaneous online changes by multiple users so possibly people could write and maintain an individual help page as a google doc and import as a topic page when convenient. With a proper help infrastructure, people might become more interested in updating the help and the easier it is, the more likely people are to contribute.

3. Automate the mechanism for submitting changes to the help - relating to what I said just above, automate the process so that people are more likely to contribute. How easy are topic++ files to diff? Maybe something for a student to investigate. Maybe Google docs is a solution.

Graeme
 
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