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| Revision 0.1 | November 2, 1999 | Revised by: Deb Richardson - deb@oswg.org |
Currently, the OSWG has four mailing lists, a website, and a CVS tree. These are a good start towards establishing a foundation for the project, but there is definitely more work to be done.
First off, the automatic generation scripts that turn the DocBook SGML instances contained in the CVS tree have to be completed. These scripts are currently (as of Nov 1, 1999) in the "testing" phase, and should be fully automated within a week or so. More scripts are needed, however, including db2man (for man pages) and db2ascii (for plaintext ascii). Current scripts (which are part of the docbook-tools suite) enable the autogeneration of HTML, PS, PDF, DVI, and TEX formats.
Second, the OSWG must increase the quantity and quality of it's DocBook-related resources. Ideally, the OSWG will have DocBook documentation written by one or more OSWG members that includes templates, tutorials, various HOWTOs and FAQs, etc. The purpose of these resources would be to make it as easy as possible for new people to begin writing and submitting documentation in valid DocBook format.
Also on the OSWG TODO list is the creation and population of a volunteers/projects database that will automate the process of registering volunteers and projects and adding those to the OSWG website. The database will also provide some functionality towards automating the process of matching volunteers to projects and vice-versa. The "documentation wishlist" will also be included, as will all OSWG-initiated projects.
In order to further open the channels of communication, it is hoped that the OSWG will be able to set up an IRC server (ideally irc.oswg.org) to host IRC channels for any documentation project that wishes to take advantage of this service. Naturally, #oswg will be the OSWG's own channel. This shouldn't be difficult to arrange.
The OSWG could do valuable work with the Open Source Research Team that is part of MetaLab. The OSRT is doing some extremely interesting work regarding metadata and open-source documentation, and the OSWG could and should work with them to improve their ideas and implementations, as well as acting to educate and recruit people to help with the future iterations of this project.
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