The User Help Hackfest started on Thursday 17th. Since then, we have been working in two tasks: user help and developer documentation.

Our host at CDOT (Centre for Development of Open Technology), Chris Tyler, organized a lunchtime talk where Shaun McCance explained the evolution of GNOME and showed the upcoming GNOME 3, followed by a session of Q&A. The audience was very interested in our next version and they made plenty of questions.

In the user help the following documentation has been worked:

• Having a GNOME session (working with the shell)

  • Starting applications (different ways of launching apps), windows handling (organisation, maximization, etc.), workspaces ("what the hell are workspaces?"), opening files (Tiffany Antopolski)

• System settings

  • Accessibility (Shaun McCance)
  • File organization and back-ups (Tiffany Antopolski)
  • Hardware setting and troubleshooting (Jim Bull)
  • Look and feel (Natalia Ruz)
  • Mouse and touchpad (Natalia Ruz)
  • Mouse and touchpad (Natalia Ruz)
  • Power management (Phil Bull)
  • Printing (Jim Campbell)
  • Searching (Tiffany Antopolski)
  • Session management (Phil Bull)
  • Users handling (Jim Campbell)
  • Session fingerprint authentication (Paul W. Frieds):

Also, Shaun McCance also did some changes in Yelp to make it more appealing when showing documentation.

On the other hand, there was a cleanup of modules under gnome-devel-docs. Johannes Schmid has been working on demos in several languages for getting started with GNOME and I have been working updating and completing the platform overview.

The organization has been quite good, Desrt even managed to receive us with two warms days in Toronto :-) And, every morning we get muffins thanks to Syllogist (also known as Shaun McCance's start-up).

Other posts:

• Gnome 3 documentation hackfest, by Jim Campbell
• Mallard can do that?!, by Shaun McCance
• Desktop Help, by Phil Bull
• User Help hackfest, by Phil Bull
• Yelp it!, by Tiffany Antopolski

If you would like to contribute, join us at #docs (irc.gnome.org), the pizza is still warm.