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==Projects only: Please outline in brief detail how the nominated project would benefit from attending the 2013 GSoC Doc Camp.== | ==Projects only: Please outline in brief detail how the nominated project would benefit from attending the 2013 GSoC Doc Camp.== | ||
Currently the project is badly lacking professional end-user documentation. We have several wiki pages, more or less updated, and we link the users to those based on their questions. But regularly, people are asking for something more formal | Currently the project is badly lacking professional and maintainable end-user documentation. We have several wiki pages, more or less updated, and we link the users to those based on their questions. But regularly, people are asking for something more formal and structured and we are pretty sure some people will have given using our product because they don't find the required information easily enough. | ||
We already have more than 8.5 million direct downloads of our product and it is easy to see that the benefits of the organization would be great. Allowing us to keep more new users on one hand, and decrease the flow of trivial questions on the other (thus reducing time spent on support)! | |||
We also have some less common documentation problems to overcome such as having issues with aligning good formal documentation to a project that supports such a wide variety of platforms with wildly different characteristics. | |||
==Projects only: List up to 5 individuals that you would like to attend. Please provide the country (and state if applicable) they would travel from, and one or two lines about why each person is a good candidate. Indicate those who would require full or partial travel assistance.== | ==Projects only: List up to 5 individuals that you would like to attend. Please provide the country (and state if applicable) they would travel from, and one or two lines about why each person is a good candidate. Indicate those who would require full or partial travel assistance.== | ||