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Today's Topics:
1. Hello! (Famiglietti, Andrew A)
2. Re: Hello! (Alexandre Prokoudine)
3. Re: Hello! (dana thurston)
4. Re: Hello! (Bill Skaggs)
5. Re: Hello! (Alexandre Prokoudine)
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:27:34 +0000
Subject: [Gimp-docs] Hello!
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Hi Gimp Documentation List!
I'm a professor in the English Department at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and I'm planning to use Open Source Software documentation as a "real world" writing task for my Technical Writing Students this semester. I noticed your project was looking for documentation help and thought I would reach out. Some things you should know:
- I'm not going to swamp you with student pull requests. Students will file their drafts with me, first, and then I will pass them on to you only if I think they have a reasonably good end product, and I have an ok from the project
I was wondering:
- If you would be interested in seeing the documentation drafts students produce
- If there was any particular area of documentation you were particularly in need of
Thanks so much for your time!
?
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Andy Famiglietti, PhD
Assistant Professor of English, West Chester University
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 6:27 PM, Famiglietti, Andrew A wrote:
> Hi Gimp Documentation List!
>
>
> I'm a professor in the English Department at West Chester University of
> Pennsylvania, and I'm planning to use Open Source Software documentation as
> a "real world" writing task for my Technical Writing Students this semester.
> I noticed your project was looking for documentation help and thought I
> would reach out. Some things you should know:
>
> - I'm not going to swamp you with student pull requests. Students will file
> their drafts with me, first, and then I will pass them on to you only if I
> think they have a reasonably good end product, and I have an ok from the
> project
>
> I was wondering:
>
> - If you would be interested in seeing the documentation drafts students
> produce
Yes, definitely!
> - If there was any particular area of documentation you were particularly in
> need of
Personally, I think that both "Getting Started" and "How do I Become a
GIMP Wizard?" sections need revisiting, because a lot of chapters from
the latter one belong to the foremr one really.
Moreover, the user manual is still missing updates for the upcoming
v2.10. Julien Hardelin would be a better judge of that though.
Alex
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:15:38 -0400
Subject: Re: [Gimp-docs] Hello!
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That is really cool, Professor!
Do you have your own YouTube/Vidme/Minds channel? I find that individuals
put up videos and that is how I learn (and re-learn) techniques in GIMP.
Loyal user for 6 years.
Dana
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 6:27 PM, Famiglietti, Andrew A wrote:
> > Hi Gimp Documentation List!
> >
> >
> > I'm a professor in the English Department at West Chester University of
> > Pennsylvania, and I'm planning to use Open Source Software documentation
> as
> > a "real world" writing task for my Technical Writing Students this
> semester.
> > I noticed your project was looking for documentation help and thought I
> > would reach out. Some things you should know:
> >
> > - I'm not going to swamp you with student pull requests. Students will
> file
> > their drafts with me, first, and then I will pass them on to you only if
> I
> > think they have a reasonably good end product, and I have an ok from the
> > project
> >
> > I was wondering:
> >
> > - If you would be interested in seeing the documentation drafts students
> > produce
>
> Yes, definitely!
>
> > - If there was any particular area of documentation you were
> particularly in
> > need of
>
> Personally, I think that both "Getting Started" and "How do I Become a
> GIMP Wizard?" sections need revisiting, because a lot of chapters from
> the latter one belong to the foremr one really.
>
> Moreover, the user manual is still missing updates for the upcoming
> v2.10. Julien Hardelin would be a better judge of that though.
>
> Alex
> _______________________________________________
> gimp-docs-list mailing list
>
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:15:53 -0700
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It's very difficult for students to write about broad topics like that.
The chances of getting a useful result are much higher if they focus on
limited domains such as tools, plug-ins, resources, etc.
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 6:27 PM, Famiglietti, Andrew A wrote:
> > Hi Gimp Documentation List!
> >
> >
> > I'm a professor in the English Department at West Chester University of
> > Pennsylvania, and I'm planning to use Open Source Software documentation
> as
> > a "real world" writing task for my Technical Writing Students this
> semester.
> > I noticed your project was looking for documentation help and thought I
> > would reach out. Some things you should know:
> >
> > - I'm not going to swamp you with student pull requests. Students will
> file
> > their drafts with me, first, and then I will pass them on to you only if
> I
> > think they have a reasonably good end product, and I have an ok from the
> > project
> >
> > I was wondering:
> >
> > - If you would be interested in seeing the documentation drafts students
> > produce
>
> Yes, definitely!
>
> > - If there was any particular area of documentation you were
> particularly in
> > need of
>
> Personally, I think that both "Getting Started" and "How do I Become a
> GIMP Wizard?" sections need revisiting, because a lot of chapters from
> the latter one belong to the foremr one really.
>
> Moreover, the user manual is still missing updates for the upcoming
> v2.10. Julien Hardelin would be a better judge of that though.
>
> Alex
> _______________________________________________
> gimp-docs-list mailing list
>
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 19:21:34 +0300
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> It's very difficult for students to write about broad topics like that.
Which of the two areas of concern that I mentioned do you find broad? :)
Alex
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