CiviCRM Book Sprint Day 2

Second day of the sprint behind - manual pages count is now 117. We started at 9am as day before and continued writing until lunch. When we were sleeping, our off-site editor Andy came through a few chapters and introduced quite a lot of propositions, remarks and edits - so it was not only writing new text, but also integrating fixes to whatever was written so far. Second day was also the first one when off-site authors started contributing their chunks of text to the book. Last few days were quite rainy and cloudy in Tahoe, but on second sprint day the sun showed up just in time for having lunch outside. After short break we came together again and started our first review of the manual as a whole - everyone reported back on work so far, some good discussions happened on what should still be included in existing chapters, how chapters flow together and so on. After that we split into two groups that had separate conversations on how to combine some existing parts of the book. Soon after dinner (lamb - yum!), we sat down as a group again and each person started reading whole manual. The goal was to start discussing about orchestrating the manual as a whole - make it consistent when it comes to style and format, and also make sure that the text we have so far doesn't omit any important aspects of using CiviCRM. Third day will be a challenge - we will have to make tough decisions by the end of the day. What drops out of the outline, what still absolutely needs to be added - so we are sure the manual is in good shape before we finish on Friday.

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Can't wait to see the finished 'book'.