[kde-doc-english] KDE documentation team

[Cornelius Schumacher]

Hi all,

(hope this is the right mailing list to discuss KDE documentation in general. 
If not, please advise where a better place is)

I was wondering what the state of the KDE documentation team is. Some of the 
docs are pretty outdated and also our software, prominently KHelpcenter 
(which ironically apparently still lists me as main developer in the about 
box) is lacking behind. There wasn't much innovation in KDE documentation 
land lately. But I think we should change that, and in order to do that we 
need a strong documentation team. So please understand this as an attempt to 
help with bulding up new strength for the KDE documentation team.

There are quite a few things we could do to help with that. One and foremost I 
think it's a question of coordination. We do have great documentation 
efforts, the classical documentation, new approaches like Userbase or the 
knowledge base on opendesktop.org, or also the forums, and of course there is 
all what's happening for all the distributions which are shipping KDE, and 
much more.

So bringing this all together, stimulating some development of new technology, 
maybe a rethinking of some of the assumptions we do (e.g. is it still 
essential to be able to print an applications manual), all this could freshen 
the KDE documentation effort and improve the experience for our users.

So please let me know, what's the state of the KDE documentation team, what 
ideas do you have how to improve the situation, what can we do?

One of the obvious ideas would be to get together the people who are working 
on KDE documentation for a face-to-face meeting. But to be able to organize 
that we need a better idea of who cares about KDE documentation, and where we 
are heading.

All input is welcome.

Regards,
Cornelius

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Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>