================================================== Hi Boost, Once a week, we will send you a brief of our work for the Improving Boost Docs project. We need more hands, join us! We are waiting you on the boost-docs list. Project Wiki: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingBoostDocs RSS news feed: http://beta.boost.org/development/ibd_news.rss Community Blog: http://improving-boost-docs.blogspot.com ================================================== 2007-07-10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Jake joins the community Blog He writes: I feel that it would be helpful if there was a little bit of standardization in the layout/content of the documentation. A lot of the documentation implements similar ideas (one minute tutorials, introductions, reference sections), but each individual libraries documentation has the earmarks of the authors. more... http://tinyurl.com/3btnae 2007-07-09 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Resources Section added to the Community Blog "The Blog is a one-stop shop" -- Stjepan more... http://improving-boost-docs.blogspot.com 2007-07-08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Two proof-readers join the project Thanks Paul Giaccone and Jake Voytko for jumping in. more... http://tinyurl.com/2optqg * Boost community feedback on our objectives Since we want to build a long term subcommunity which main purpose is to continuously improve the quality of Boost documentation, we would like that our main directives be aligned with the Boost community as a whole. more... http://tinyurl.com/3czjfn 2007-07-07 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Resources Section added to the Wiki At IBD we use several open source tools to organize our efforts. In this section the purpose of each resource is explained. When possible, IBD resources will be interlinked and share a common look and feel allowing a consistent experience for both users and developers. more... http://tinyurl.com/2uxfut#Resources 2007-07-06 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Help request, A woman's point of view Is there any female Booster willing to help us? more... http://tinyurl.com/2om8ek * Stjepan joins the community Blog He add a post about his experience transalting smart_ptr docs. more... http://tinyurl.com/3d3r93 * Help request, Python programmers There are two specific projects that need Python programmers: 1) http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostSpecificWikiMacros 2) http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/QuickbookWikiProcessor more... http://tinyurl.com/2lqe2p * Two testers join the project Stuart help request was answered by Chun Ping Wang and Marco. Welcome to IBD! more... http://tinyurl.com/323uf5 2007-07-05 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * IBD RSS news feed The IBD news feed consists of formal announces about the things going on in the project, they are very short and direct headlines. Some of the common subjects are new members, new subprojects, help requests and completed translation. more... http://beta.boost.org/development/ibd_news.rss * New Community Blog A record of the things that happens behind the scenes, our next objectives and the social and philosophical aspects of IBD. more... http://improving-boost-docs.blogspot.com 2007-07-04 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Translation of Boost.Boostbook completed We have translated boostbook docs to quickbook and add a sections about boosbook specific HTML params. more... http://tinyurl.com/32zgtm * Our team mascot Give a warm welcome to Mafalda, our team mascot. She is a English Springer Spaniel from Argentina, currently living with Matias. Mafalda is helping him with the project Wiki page. She just barks once in a while, but that is a lot. more... http://tinyurl.com/2uxfut#team_mascot * Stuart Dootsoon's help request for the Browser testing project We need more testers to cover all the possible browsers and platforms combinations. more... http://tinyurl.com/2q6csw