Blog posts by seancolsen

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March 25, 2018
By seancolsen Filed under Community, Documentation, Sprints

Last week we had a remote sprint to improve documentation, and wow, what a success it was!

Progress

The sprint was focused on improving the User Guide.

Check out everything we did.

GitHub tells us:

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February 20, 2018
By seancolsen Filed under Community, Documentation

The Documentation Working Group is planning a remote sprint to improve content in the User Guide. Everyone is invited to participate! Experience editing our docs will be helpful but not required.

Sign up to join this sprint

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November 14, 2017
By seancolsen Filed under Community, Documentation, Make it happen

Two months ago, I launched a Make It Happen campaign to build a System Administrator Guide with the goal of migrating the installation, setup, and upgrade documentation out of the wiki and into a beautiful guide on our new documentation platform. Amazingly, the MIH campaign reached its $2,000 USD minimum in only 4 days — which meant I could get to work right away!

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September 13, 2017
By seancolsen Filed under Documentation, Make it happen

This Make It Happen campaign will migrate the installation, setup, and upgrade documentation out of the wiki and into a beautiful guide on our new documentation platform.

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March 20, 2017
By seancolsen Filed under CiviCon, Community

I'm sure many CiviCRMers are checking their schedules and and making travel arrangements for CiviCon St. Louis in May. While this post is a bit off-topic, I want to highlight a place in St. Louis like no other place on Earth... the City Museum. It's already on the list of things to do while at CiviCon, but in my opinion it should also be on a list of things to do while you're alive!

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January 12, 2017
By seancolsen Filed under Community, Documentation

TL;DR: A migration project is underway to bring wiki content into the Developer Guide.

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