[kde-doc-english] Open source documentation conference

[Shaun McCance]

On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 23:59 +0200, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dimecres, 27 de març de 2013, a les 17:05:27, Shaun McCance va escriure:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I run an open source documentation and support conference in June.
> > I mentioned it on IRC and it was recommended that I email the list.
> > I know I've emailed this list about the conference in previous years,
> > so I hope it's OK.
> > 
> > http://openhelpconference.com/
> > 
> > Open Help features a two-day conference that has a strong focus on
> > open discussion. About half the time is spent on presentations and
> > demos, with the rest devoted to attendee-led discussions. This has
> > been popular in the past, and it lets us learn from the experiences
> > of a lot of different people and projects.
> > 
> > After the conference, we host three days of documentation sprints
> > for multiple teams. Each team runs its own sprint, but we all get
> > together to share thoughts and just hang out. I don't know if the
> > KDE docs team has done docs sprints in the past, but I find them
> > really useful for getting people more involved.
> > 
> > I'd love to have some KDE folks out. Please let me know if you
> > have any questions or concerns.
> 
> Just saying that it'd be great if we can send someone of the team there and 
> that if needed i guess getting the eV to finance some of the trip would not be 
> that hard.

Is there anything I can do to make it easier for members of the KDE
documentation team to make it out? Has anybody talked to the eV about
funding? A lot of FOSS foundations are very good about funding things
like this, especially if a group of people do a sprint.

Let me know if I can help with anything.

Thanks,
Shaun