It’s been a great pleasure for me to visit Canada and the city of Toronto for the first time for the 2026 Camp and Sprint. This diverse cosmopolitan city has great food, a relaxed vibe and it's been really enjoyable to wander around in the evening: people are out on the streets and in the parks and squares - hanging out and chatting in dozens of languages.
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During the Point Montara Lighthouse Sprint, Alain Benbassat, David Moreton, and Don Hirst worked on making the CiviCRM documentation better with a more robust but easy to follow process for producing and improving docs.
We started with the Diátaxis Framework, which has the core idea that:
Following on from the training last week, about 40 of us have been up in Manchester recently for the CiviCRM Sprint where we've been working on replacing some of the admin forms and some of the core display screens with more up to date technology. There's also been work on updating the documentation and some thinking about how that process should actually work.
Returning to CiviCRM videos after some time on other projects, the team at Circle Interactive are now starting to think again about developing a CiviCRM community video project based on the ideas in Young Jin’s blog of Feb 2012.
There are a range of materials that can be distributed to organisations interested in CiviCRM. These are currently available on http://civicrm.org/content/spreadtheword
Following a couple of discussions of this, the consensus seems to be that having good coordinated training materials is important to a maturing product to give confidence to organisations buying into the ecosystem. The doumentation has moved along considerably in the new book and this structure seems a reasonable place to start for creating a set of training videos.
Anyone currently working on video?
