Technical Document Re-working Group/Meetings/2018-06-17

Currently working on this page of resources and tasks to bring to the hackathon at Wikimania:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Document_Re-working_Group/Wikimania_2018


 * Need more tasks of different levels for the Wikimania 2018 Hackathon (some have been reused from the WTD task list). We would like to come up with some very basic --> very complex tasks for folks to choose from.


 * Needs a short mission statement / philosophy of why technical documentation is important (Sarah R. will take a first pass at this)
 * We should have some basic talking points / elevator pitches for newcomers and potential contributors.
 * Rotating and bringing onboard new SIG members
 * Need to reopen and properly resolve T156301 (create SIG!)
 * Sarah R. will work on the mission statement and think of “campaigns” for different aspects of this project
 * We will do some outreach to folks already interested in technical writing
 * Nick will look at folks to suggest from mw.o (quarry)
 * Bryan will look at folks to suggest from wikitech
 * Regrouping for new year -- thinking ahead to how this fits into any changes taking place
 * Wikified our old resource links gdoc
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Document_Re-working_Group/Resources

Some light reading:

http://idratherbewriting.com/2017/12/28/value-of-tech-comm-in-company-part1/

https://stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/writing-wednesdays-2-the-most-important-writing-lession-i-ever-learned/

https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/10/readme-maturity-model

https://opensource.com/open-organization/resources/open-org-maturity-model

http://opensourcesurvey.org/2017/ (documentation section)