meeting-2010-01-16

Project Brief 16th January 2010

Saturday, 16th January 2010 at 1100 UTC/GMT in #ubuntu-manual on irc.freenode.net

Agenda

  • Roll Call
  • Welcome to our new members
  • Changes since last meeting (new editing team, ToC, LaTeX stuff etc)
  • Style and content of margin notes
  • Style and content of in-line definition notes
  • Making the project more self-documenting
  • Format of the credits
  • Style of the footer - and header?
  • Font colours review
  • Indentation review
  • Page type - A4, US Letter, or both?
  • Screenshot and image resolutions and guide - captions? Figures?
  • Glossary format and assignee
  • Index and assignee
  • Chapter heading review
  • Title page proposals
  • Feedback from Ubuntu Forums questionnaire
  • Are we still on track?
  • Questions/Feedback

Meeting Summary

Meeting started at 1105 UTC.

Log: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/01/17/%23ubuntu-meeting.html

The meeting had around 10 active participants to being with. Most of the meeting was discussing style and formatting of various parts of LaTeX. There was quite a bit of voting, here are the results:

Vote: "Should margin notes be exclusively used for cross references?" Result: 6 for, 2 against.

Vote: Warnings and IMPORTANT things are in the paragraph, with formatting to highlight the importance. Cross references and background info are in the margins. Remove in-line notes altogether. Final result is 10 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Total: 10

Vote: Should the notes have colour? Final result is 0 for, 6 against. 0 abstained. Total: -6

Vote: Should the margin notes be on the right? Final result is 8 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Total: 8

VOTE: Warnings should be in a paragraph, with an icon like the one above, that sits in the left margin, indented. Final result is 8 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Total: 8

Self documenting: Decided to leave it as is, improve readme in the branch. Point to wiki for more info.

Credits: Three columns, no bullet points. Smaller font.

Footer: Number + chapter title on left, page number on right.

Vote: Font colours stay the same. Final result is 5 for, 0 against. 1 abstained. Total: 5

Decided we are on track. No further questions/feedback. Next meeting Saturday 30th January 2000 UTC.

Meeting ended at 1230 UTC.

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