What needs to be brought over?

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Permalink Reply by Dex Randall on January 19, 2010 at 3:36pm

I will take over the submission guidelines, section list, author notes and style guide.

Permalink Reply by Paul Orwig on January 19, 2010 at 5:44pm

Thanks Mark for starting this discussion.

I recommend that at least for now, that some of the more permanent policy and process oriented documents should be posted to Google Docs that will be viewable by everyone but editable only by a few or perhaps only editable by the owner. When the magazine is published we may want to migrate some or all of those documents into a separate magazine section, call it: "About the Magazine", "Magazine Guidelines", or something more clever... If we decide to not have a separate section in the Magazine for these items, we could publish links to those Google Docs.

For example, I have created a Google Doc for the Content Guidelines that were originally published as a discussion here. I will start a new thread in the Joomla! Forum for that document, I will link to it in that thread, and discussion about that document can take place in that thread.

Dex, I recommend that you follow this approach with the documents you identified (see questions below) in your post:
1. Create a Google Doc
2. Publish it as a web page
3. Create a new Joomla! Forum thread for each document and in the first post include a link to the Google Doc.

Questions for Dex
1. What is the Section List? Is that for content sections for the magazine? If so can you point me to where that is? I didn't recall that this had been finalized. There is a discussion underway now on the Joomla! Forum about that titled "Content Structure". If the Section List is something else, please clarify that for me.

2. By Submission Guidelines, do you mean the Content Guidelines I referred to at the top of this post? If so, if you don't mind I would like to own that document since it overlaps with Webmaster responsibilities Airton and I share for the Community site. Disregard this if you meant something else by Content Guidelines.

Permalink Reply by Paul Orwig on January 19, 2010 at 5:46pm

Brian suggested posting a status update in the Joomla! forum for those who are not familiar with the magazine discussions that have been going on over here. I will post that as a summary, then others are welcome to add to that.

Permalink Reply by Paul Orwig on January 19, 2010 at 7:34pm

How to Create Google Docs for the magazine

1. You need to have a community.joomla.org account in order to be able to create a Google Doc in the designated location.
2. Go to https://docs.google.com/a/community.joomla.org/?tab=mo (you'll have to log in with your J! community account u/p)
3. Find the "Joomla! Community Magazine" folder (left side pane) and click into that folder.
4. Click on the "Create New" button (top of left side pane) to create your new Google Doc.
5. After you have saved your doc, publish it and make it publicly viewable.
6. Share your doc with edit rights with someone else, so the doc can still be edited if you leave.

Permalink Reply by Amy Stephen on January 19, 2010 at 7:34pm

Paul and Dex -

At some point, when you feel like the transition is over, it'll make sense to close posting and comments to the Joomla! Community Magazine Group here - with a clear message for where folks should go in the forums. Since you guys are Administrators, please do that when you think it's time.

Really thrilled with the positive vibes in the forums; and, very excited to see the "working in the open" thing going on. Role modeling for our future teams. I hope it pays off in contributors and fresh stories.

Thanks guys.