What are "Idea Jolters" being used for?

[camerons]

Doc: Idea Jolters
https://docs.google.com/document/d/177YrqXs6DzGFeOpey1eGmSMJZ3pWHOpZPil2yIU_x7c/edit#heading=h.e2bcb4siqzkb

Hannah McKenzie
13:49 14 Nov
Ideas for what? "Idea jolters for writing documentation"? Will "jolters" translate well?
Other suggestions:
Writing ideas
The Blank Page - Ideas to get started

Cameron: Good point. Idea Jolters were initially to start conversation within a FixIt session at WriteTheDocs conference. There were not intended as a stand alone document in itself. However, I expect we will want to run this fixit session again, so I see value in moving this document and comments into a repository somewhere for future use. And while at it, we can address comments provided.

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Thinking about a good place to put this. I think we could create a space (repo? google folder?) to hold materials for use at conferences and events where we want to present or workshop The Good Docs Project.

This place could hold:

• Standard set of presentation slides
• Standard set of workshop material (input/output)
• Checklist for presenters (bring Doctopus stickers!)
• Idea jolters
• Boilerplate presentation submission wording
• Social media messages
• List of past events with hyperlinks to slide decks or recorded presos.

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@camerons , @cwcromwell I think you have both done presentations for The Good Docs in the past - does this sound like a good idea, and is a repo the best place to store it?
I've had a quick look across GitHub and found some kind of similar repos...so it's not a terrible idea.

[camerons]

Not quite what you are asking for, but I've added links to past presentations at here: thegooddocsproject/thegooddocsproject.github.io#55
This will make them easier to reference later.

Something which I think is on our back-burner is to set up a roadmap, and this setting up of a training pack would be an epic on that roadmap. I think the closest thing we have at the moment for this roadmap is the Patterns and Anti-patterns essay we've been compiling, and in particular, then section on training.

I'd be inclined to either start building up a list of "epic" tasks which align with our roadmap ideas, and this can be closed, referencing the epic task, or decide that we don't need to track this yet as it is an idea we will likely carry along with us in collective knowledge, and will recreate when we get to this.

Might be a good issue to discuss in our next meeting.