Pycon proposal : How to document a Python open source project

I have sent a proposal for a tutorial at Pycon, covering the way to document a project through the developement cycle. It's based on Agile Documentation principles and provide a way to smoothly integrate documentation in the daily developer work.

Here it is:

Summary

Documentation plays a vital role in open sources projects.

Well designed, it attracts new people into the project,
help the users use it, and raises the quality
of the code base and the team work.

In other words, it builds the shared knowledge.

This tutorial is based on a talk i've made
at Europython about zope-cookbook.org, and go
further by giving a complete set of practical methods
that can help a team to create and maintain an up to date
documentation with no pain.

An example code base will be provided and used for all
exercises.

By the end of the tutorial, people should be able to
integrate documentation in their developement process,
the same way they probably did one day with unit testing.

Presentation outline

-
agile documentation principle (short overview)
- mastering doctests (overview + exercises) - mastering reStructuredText (overview + exercises) - writing techniques and tips (examples + exercises) - shapes of documents (overview) - building document templates (examples + exercises) - setting up documentation writing in the development cycle: - continuous documentation (examples + exercises) - team writing (exercises) - portfolio (overview) - setting up a help center (overview + exercise) - linking it all together (complete example (svn/trac/website/etc..))

* Intended audience

All, except the doctests exercises that will have a bit of coding

the zope-cookbook talk:
- http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=5&sessionId=53&confId=44

Now let's wait and see if it's accepted :)