Addison Berry new Drupal documentation team lead

By Dries on 10 Oct 2008 at 18:02 UTC

For the past few years the Drupal Documentation Team has been led by Steven Peck (sepeck). Steven was the second person to take on this role (Charlie Lowe was the first), and he has done a great job. Not only has he grown the documentation team to include a lot of talented and hard-working volunteer writers, he has overseen the restructuring and reorganization of Drupal.org's documentation handbooks, greatly improving their structure and accessibility. Thank you Steven for the great work!

Like so many Drupal contributors, Steven works on Drupal completely as a volunteer. His day job has been demanding a lot of time lately, and he has decided to step down from being the Documentation Team Leader. That means it is time to pass the torch to the next person who can then sprint with it for a while.

One great thing about the Drupal community is seeing people grow into new roles and take more responsibility upon themselves. This is certainly the case for Addison Berry (add1sun), who in her two years working with Drupal has become involved with virtually every aspect of the Drupal project. Lately Addi has been more and more active with the documentation team, making her a clear choice in my mind to carry on where Steven left off. I'm therefore very happy to announce that Addison Berry, aka add1sun, is the new documentation team leader, effective immediately.

The documentation team leader has the following responsibilities:

Getting the community involved in documenting Drupal
Building and coordinating a team of volunteers who have the tools and authorization to make meaningful changes
Developing tools for document creation
Overseeing the structure and content of Drupal's documentation

Addi is well equipped to handle this role. Her special skills include:

A talent for fostering involvement
Drupal programming foo that will help with tool selection and building
Constant exposure to the needs of people learning Drupal through consulting and training with Lullabot
Diplomatic leadership skills

Addi knows that it is her time to sprint with the torch. As with any leadership position within the Drupal project, the time will come to pass that torch on to the next rising star. Until then, I think we can expect great things from the documentation team. Big thanks to both Steven and Addi for your focus on Drupal documentation!

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Comments

Wow!

emmajane commented 10 October 2008 at 18:10

Thank you Steven for all of your work to date! And a big HURRAH! to welcome Addi. I'm thrilled with her new ideas for this team and am looking forward what the future brings.

I knew you could do it!

Senpai commented 10 October 2008 at 18:21

I knew you could do it, Addi! Congrats on the promotion. You rock! Steven, nice work on everything thus far, and congrats on passing the torch.
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Big thanks to steven and

-Anti- commented 10 October 2008 at 18:55

Big thanks to steven and everyone who has contributed to drupal docs so far.
Keep up the good work.

Congrats!

Michelle

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commented 10 October 2008 at 19:02

I've noticed you really taking a lead in the documentation and it's nice to see that recognized. I know Steven did a lot of work to get the handbooks into shape but he's been so very busy lately it will be nice to have the pressure off him.

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Congratulations Addi & Thanks Steven

jbrauer commented 10 October 2008 at 19:06

Congratulations Addi & Thanks Steven the doc team is a rockin with your great efforts.

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Steven, I guess I owe you a

PepeMty commented 10 October 2008 at 19:21

Steven,
I guess I owe you a big thank you 'cause (besides a friend who talked me wonders about Drupal) it was the handbooks what finally allured me to use this CMS.

So here you have it: THANK YOU!

add1sun, great you're stepping up.

Warm regards from sunny México!
Pepe
:-)

Excellent choice-- congrats

WorldFallz commented 10 October 2008 at 19:22

Excellent choice-- congrats add1sun and best of luck sepeck!

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Go Addiso-on!

betz commented 10 October 2008 at 19:23

Congratulations add1sun! I first met you at the codesprint in Szeged and i have to say that i was a lot under the impression on how you can lead everyone with such charisma.
I'm sure we are in very good hands.

Thank you both

pwolanin commented 10 October 2008 at 19:36

Any Drupal leadership positions is lots of work and not much glory, so thank you both for your past and future contributions.

I have been less active on the documentation team recently, but I've always appreciated Steven's dedication to making the docs organized, useful, and as accurate as possible, and I look forward to contributing under Addi's watch.

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Welcome Addison. And thank

tonyn commented 10 October 2008 at 19:46

Welcome Addison.

And thank you for your great service Steven.

Breaking the Mold

mbutcher commented 10 October 2008 at 20:09

Congrats, Addi!

It's a traditional complaint with Open Source software that documentation is "an afterthought or worse".

Drupal has long been ahead of the Open Source curve on that one. But there's always room for improvement, and there are some major changes ahead that will benefit from strong leadership on the docs team. Having listened to her present in Szeged, I am excited to see what she can do here. And I'm glad to know that she's stepping up to the plate in time for both the redesign and Drupal 7!

:)

dvessel commented 10 October 2008 at 20:16

This is such a thankless job that I have tremendous respect for Steven and now Addison for filling this role. It's a perfect fit and I'm sure the docs will continue improving. Congratulations Addison! I promise to follow through and help out when I say I will. :p

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Congrats ...

kbahey commented 10 October 2008 at 21:35

Thanks Steven for continually improving the second most important component of Drupal: code without documentation is near useless.

Addison, congratulations for taking on that rules, and I am sure you will improve it more ...
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Congrats!

brenda003

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commented 10 October 2008 at 23:22

Congratulations, Addison! This is great news for Drupal.

Thanks and Good Luck!

alanburke commented 11 October 2008 at 01:18

Thank you Steven, an immense contribution.

Best of Luck Addi - an outstanding job already...

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Two great rides

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commented 11 October 2008 at 01:22

Thanks Steven for your great work on the docs and the docs team. It has been a great ride! What you will leave behind is surely an excellent and solid foundation for the one next in line.

With Addi leading the team, there's really no other direction than going towards excellent Drupal documentation. Looking forward to another great ride with a new driver.Congratulations Addi!

You guys ROCK!!!

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Congrats Addi!! I am a

Shyamala commented 11 October 2008 at 16:11

Congrats Addi!! I am a silent admirer of yours, since I met you a the Lullabot, Minneapolis workshop. Love the way you drive the Drupal documentation!

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Congrats Addi!

sarah_p commented 11 October 2008 at 21:06

I can't think of a better person for the job, you understand both the new coders and seasoned developer viewpoints! Thanks for all that you do for Drupal! :)

Awesome!

lut4rp commented 12 October 2008 at 03:07

Awesomeness from add1sun again, cheers! She has been a great sport and helped me out in a quite a few spotty situations... Rock on!!

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i just wanted to pipe in

heather commented 12 October 2008 at 17:23

i just wanted to pipe in too.

thanks of course to steven and everyone who works on documentation.

for me, i didn't get involved until the documentation sprint at szeged. i think i really understood (finally) that even in my newbishness, i could make valued contributions. i also liked having a relatively simple task where the chances of screwing up were slim (we were reclassifying hundreds of posts). since then i've been helping out a bit each week, keeping my eye on the docs issue queue and adding help where i can.

i hope add1sun gets more funding for more documentation sprints. i think it would have a huge positive effect. its amazing what gets done without the face to face activity, but i know that sprints will mean the docs are even better.
Documentation sprints for better docs and to grow the team
http://groups.drupal.org/node/14669

best of luck with that proposal!

Congrats Addi!

KeyboardCowboy

English

Denver, CO, USA

commented 12 October 2008 at 18:15

Congratulations, Addi! All the best in the new position. I know you'll be great.

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Drupal has no roadmap, maybe Addi has one?

drupalnesia commented 13 October 2008 at 02:26

Addi is well equipped to handle this role. Her special skills include:

* A talent for fostering involvement
* Drupal programming foo that will help with tool selection and building
* Constant exposure to the needs of people learning Drupal through consulting and training with Lullabot
* Diplomatic leadership skills

So long Drupal has no roadmap, and I hope Addi will show us a roadmap even for the Documentation section only. Will Addi can equipped Documentation team with a roadmap? Anyway, congratulation Addi!

no roadmap

add1sun commented 14 October 2008 at 16:49

Just like the Drupal code, documentation is an all-volunteer effort. People will work on what they can and want to as they have time, so roadmaps don't tend to work very well. I have posted on my personal blog with my thoughts about Drupal documentation and I did list a few personal goals that are important to me, but they may not be important to everyone on the team, and that is fine and expected. Everyone has their own itches to scratch.

If you have ideas or goals for docs, please feel free to dig in and let others know. We have a lot of ideas and discussions that happen on the docs mail list and we are beginning to summarize and organize a bit on the new group page.

And thank you. :-)

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Welcome and Congratulations Addi!

karldied commented 13 October 2008 at 18:50

Welcome and thanks Addison! For all the work you've contributed and the leadership role you've taken.

And thank you for your great service Steven.

Congratulation, very happy

Wolfflow commented 26 March 2015 at 22:36

Congratulation, very happy for you and happy to be part of the Team even knowing that sometime my statements get misunderstood cause my weak knowledge of the English (Edit: I think I got better in this :-)) way to communicate and work in a so big group.

Wish you all the best!

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Edit: I may be the first that review an old comment I made when Addison Berry (about 6 years ago) joined the DOC Team and adding some few words to it:

I Knew that You will make it. Sincerely Congratulations and thank you for your amazing support to all of us.

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