Since we were directly inspired to create the Marketing SOPs by seeing how much good it's done Infrastructure to have them, I thought I'd share some back - we made a template and a SOP for making SOPs to make the SOP-generation process itself easier on folks who might not want to spend a lot of time on wiki editing.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Creating_a_Marketing_SOP https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Template:Marketing_SOP
They're both marketing-specific at the moment, but could be cloned for Infrastructure in a few minutes.
Another way to make it even easier to make SOPs would be to use http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox, which would give you a text field with a button next to it; if you type a title into the text field and hit the button, it throws you straight into the Edit page for a new page with that title, with a template you prespecify already in there. If someone wants to implement that extension, I'd be happy to do the wiki work needed to document/use it for various types of pages-that-should-be-easy-to-create once the extension is installed.
--Mel
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Marketing SOPs Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:24:30 -0500 From: Mel Chua mel@redhat.com Reply-To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com
One of the projects we have between now and Alpha is to document how to create each of our primary release deliverables in the form of a SOP[0].
You can see our current SOPs here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Marketing_SOPs#How_to_contribute. Some
are more polished than others.
Of course, I had to start by making a SOP on how to make SOPs. :)
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Creating_a_Marketing_SOP
It makes use of the (also new) Marketing SOP template, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Template:Marketing_SOP. That template is meant to be a suggestion/aide to make life easier, so don't feel compelled to stick to it if you think a different format will work better for you.
--Mel
[0] Standard Operating Procedure - we used to call them "HOWTOs," but I switched the term to be more consistent with the terminology other teams use (specifically, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Infrastructure_SOPs). The HOWTO pages have been redirected/recategorized to reflect this.
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Mel Chua mel@redhat.com wrote:
Since we were directly inspired to create the Marketing SOPs by seeing how much good it's done Infrastructure to have them, I thought I'd share some back - we made a template and a SOP for making SOPs to make the SOP-generation process itself easier on folks who might not want to spend a lot of time on wiki editing.
Cool beans. Once this settles down a bit, I would be happy to work with you on this.
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