docbook-apps

  • 1.  DocBook for Evergreen

    Posted 05-22-2009 14:55
    Just a quick note of thanks to the DocBook community for all the assistance
    over the past six months. At our first-ever user conference about 20 of us
    had a three-hour documentation session that concluded with establishing the
    Evergreen DIGgers (documentation implementation group) and in order,
    committing to single-source, standards-based documentation, and then to
    DocBook. (Being librarians, the order of precedence was important...) We
    also committed to meeting every two weeks for, well, forever and we have a
    more elaborate series of plans for establishing style guide (for markup, of
    course :> ), toolkits, heavily-annotated templates, etc. The group
    understood that this wasn't a trivial commitment but also understood that
    DocBook is, in a way, inevitable and a right fit. The groundwork had been
    laid in advance, but this meeting was the clincher.

    This is our five-minute lightning talk we did today -- for those who are
    interested, I will also provide a link to the (much, much longer) slideset
    from Wednesday.

    http://www.slideshare.net/evergreenils/evergreen-documentation-lightning-talk

    I am indebted to the docbook-apps community for my ability to oh-so-casually
    perform a live XSL transform (with a little shout-out to the oXygen folks
    too).

    Thanks again,

    --
    --
    | Karen G. Schneider
    | Community Librarian
    | Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts"
    | Toll-free: 1.877.Open.ILS (1.877.673.6457) x712
    | kgs@esilibrary.com
    | Web: http://www.esilibrary.com
    | Be a part of the Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22, 2009!
    | http://www.lyrasis.org/evergreen



  • 2.  RE: [docbook-apps] DocBook for Evergreen

    Posted 05-22-2009 15:30
    You had me at "With ever additional format, another kitten dies."

    David


    ________________________________

    From: Karen Schneider [mailto:kgschneider@gmail.com]
    Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 9:55 AM
    To: docbook-apps
    Subject: [docbook-apps] DocBook for Evergreen


    Just a quick note of thanks to the DocBook community for all the
    assistance over the past six months. At our first-ever user conference
    about 20 of us had a three-hour documentation session that concluded
    with establishing the Evergreen DIGgers (documentation implementation
    group) and in order, committing to single-source, standards-based
    documentation, and then to DocBook. (Being librarians, the order of
    precedence was important...) We also committed to meeting every two
    weeks for, well, forever and we have a more elaborate series of plans
    for establishing style guide (for markup, of course :> ), toolkits,
    heavily-annotated templates, etc. The group understood that this wasn't
    a trivial commitment but also understood that DocBook is, in a way,
    inevitable and a right fit. The groundwork had been laid in advance, but
    this meeting was the clincher.

    This is our five-minute lightning talk we did today -- for those
    who are interested, I will also provide a link to the (much, much
    longer) slideset from Wednesday.


    http://www.slideshare.net/evergreenils/evergreen-documentation-lightning
    -talk

    I am indebted to the docbook-apps community for my ability to
    oh-so-casually perform a live XSL transform (with a little shout-out to
    the oXygen folks too).

    Thanks again,

    --
    --
    | Karen G. Schneider
    | Community Librarian
    | Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts"
    | Toll-free: 1.877.Open.ILS (1.877.673.6457) x712
    | kgs@esilibrary.com
    | Web: http://www.esilibrary.com
    | Be a part of the Evergreen International Conference, May
    20-22, 2009!
    | http://www.lyrasis.org/evergreen





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