Xen Project Document Days

Next dates October 29, 2012 November 26, 2012 January 28, 2013 February 25, 2013 March 25, 2013

More Information TODO list Volunteer signup list

IRC Freenode channel #xendocs Turn up Work on documentation Have fun!

What is a Xen Document Day?

Xen document days are all day IRC events, facilitated by members of the Xen community. The purpose of Xen Document Days is to

• Improve user documentation
• Improve developer documentation, including the creation of man pages, etc.
• Improve and maintaining the wiki: this means fixing important pages, retiring old ones, help identify what is and isn’t important, write new pages, etc.

How Does it Work?

• Join us on IRC: freenode channel #xendocs
• Tell people what you intend to work on (to avoid doing something somebody else is already working on)
• Fix some documentation
• Help others
• And above all: have fun!

Stats

• July 2012: We changed approximately 5K words in more than 100 changesets on the wiki and much more in xen-unstable (see here)
• June 2012: Thank you for all the contributions. On the Xen wiki we changed approximately 11K words in more than 200 changesets. More details here.

Lessons learned:

• More up-front coordination on the mailing list a week before the document day helps

Proposed dates for 2012

We agreed on the mailing list that Xen Document days will be held the last Monday of each month, starting from Feb. If the date clashes with say a major Xen event or a holiday, we will try and find an alternative date.

This means the 2012 dates are:

• August 27, 2012 (clashes with XenSummit NA), propose Aug 20
• September 24, 2012
• October 29, 2012
• November 26, 2012
• December 30, 2012 (we should consider finding another date)

Extra Days

Some community members indicated that they would like an extra doc day on a public holiday or weekend. I am looking for proposed dates. Please add dates below and sign up besides it. If we get more than 5 people signed up, we should hold a day on a weekend.