Hi All,<div><br></div><div>I have been in touch with a few of you over the past few weeks, but wanted to formally seek the assistance of people in writing user help (aka documentation) for the Xfce project.</div><div><br></div>
<div>We're going to be writing the user help in Mallard [1], and you can see a sample set of mallard-based documentation on my website [2]. Mallard works best when we author things in a topic-based fashion, so that's what we'll aim to do. Topic-based help frequently answers the basic question of "How do I . . . ?" thus providing users with digestible chunks of information that address their specific needs. You can see more about topic-based help by reading the initial portions of this article [3].</div>
<div><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><span style="border-collapse:separate">i'd also like to plan out some time for us to meet on IRC (exact meeting channel is TBD) to discuss and plan the project. if you're interested, please mark your available meeting times on the following poll:</span></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.doodle.com/yc9ud37x44dzii2s" target="_blank">http://www.doodle.com/yc9ud37x44dzii2s</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Thanks, all. I'm enthusiastic about this project, and I hope you'll help me in making Xfce better for all us. :-)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Jim</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">[1] Mallard website (under construction): <a href="http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/projectmallard/" target="_blank">http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/projectmallard/</a></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">[2] Documentation source files: <a href="http://j1m.net/?attachment_id=153">http://j1m.net/?attachment_id=153</a> and html output files: <a href="http://j1m.net/?attachment_id=154">http://j1m.net/?attachment_id=154</a></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">[3] Topic based help info: <a href="http://dita.xml.org/topic-based-authoring" target="_blank">http://dita.xml.org/topic-based-authoring</a></font></div>