[Tinyos-alliance] TInyOS Documentation Working Group charter

[David E. Culler]

Matt,
    This looks like a great plan.  I'll take it to the Alliance group.  
I'd also like to volunteer to be in the group, but not chair it.  I 
believe that once this is in motion there will actually be a lot of 
interest.  One of the aspects we like to have established early is the 
membership criteria.  This is a great example.  Is it that you have docs 
to bring to the party?  Interest in content management? 

    What you are really proposing here is much more than a documentation 
group, but  a "publication group".  Coupling the two can work well.  It 
is a lot of work to generate documentation, but it is nice to get to 
shape the public face of the organization.  If instead you have in mind 
the narrower charter, than we probably need to partition the "redisgned 
web site" so that this group has control of a portion of it and other 
groups control other portions.  What I'd prefer to avoid is a tug of war 
between folks on the "look and feel".  What gets placed in the center, 
what gets place in the side, etc. 

I'd like to see that we pick up tinyos.org as part of it.  I'll talk to 
Bill and to Jason about the hostnames. 

D

Matt Welsh wrote:
> Hi Alliance folks,
>
> I am writing to propose a new WG on TinyOS Documentation - see proposed
> charter and initial membership list below. If you approve we'll get
> started on the work.
>
> Best,
> Matt
>
>
> The TinyOS Documenation Working Group will develop tools and  
> infrastructure for development, dissemination, and maintenance of  
> TinyOS-oriented documentation online. A major aspect of this effort  
> will involve a redesign of the tinyos.net website to better support  
> the growing TinyOS community's needs. In addition, we will work to  
> foster a community of documentation writers and maintainers using  
> online tools such as Wiki sites, mailing lists and forums, and an  
> appropriate policy for contributing documentation. We wish to  
> emphasize that the Documentation WG does not intend to write all 
> documentation itself. While it will manage a small amount of core 
> documentation in order to ensure it stays up to date, such as the basic
> tutorials and installation instructions, its primary goal is to seed a 
> community for greater contributions.
>
> Members:
>
> Matt Welsh, chair <mdw at eecs.harvard.edu>
> Phil Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu>
> August Joki, <august at cs.ucla.edu>
> Michael Schippling <schip at santafe.edu>
> Steve McKown <rsmckown at yahoo.com>
> Benjamin Madore <bcmadore at cs.pitt.edu>
> Ákos Maróy <darkeye at tyrell.hu>
>
>
>
>
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