Policy and Structure Class

In this class you will learn about Free Geek Policy and Structure and perhaps document some of it your self.

1. Describe Free Geek Structure.
   • Free Geek Structure
   • Program Planning Guidelines
   • Meta Question#So what are those stages we've evolved through?
2. Describe how policies are made (with a bit of history).
   • Policy Development
3. Explain the wiki format of the policy pages.
   • Policy Development#Wiki page format for policies
4. Show tricks for searching the mailing lists.
   • Help:Search
5. Research policy decisions and create pages or edit existing ones.
   • We can create the documentation we read and refer to. We should try and make things easyer to follow than we found them.
6. Does every one have wiki logons?
   • Give short explanations of tabs, sidebar, categories.
   • Searching and how it works.
   • Page elements (wiki markup).
7. Jumping in and make documentation exersize:
   • To create a new page:
     • Create a "red link" so we can create a page.
     • Cut and past into the new page a basic page layout.
     • Fill our the page with your info (what's the difference between "Save page" and "Show preview"?)
     • Have every one check out history, and explain why comments are a good thing.
   • To edit an existing page.
     • Look thorugh the pages that have been created to find one that isn't in the proper format.
     • Adjust the page to make it more like the others.