Scala International Documentation Spree #1 - 2011-08-20

I am pleased to announce that the first Scala Documentation Spree will
begin on Saturday 20th of August 2011 (2011-08-20), at 10:00 UTC. The
event will run until 2011-08-21 at 02:00 UTC, in order to allow
participation across all time zones. This event will be run on the
third Saturday of every month for the forseeable future.

The purpose of this event is to bring the community together to
improve documentation of all kinds related to Scala. The quality of
the documentation is one of the most common complaints made about
Scala, so I believe that incremental improvement of both the Scaladoc
documentation and the collation of high quality tutorials and holistic
documentation will help greatly in encouraging more people to use
Scala.

I believe there will be two "teams" involved in this docspree -
contributors from Eurasia, and contributors from the Americas. Team
Eurasia will likely be working from 10:00-20:00 UTC, while Team
America will likely be working from 16:00-02:00 UTC. I personally will
endeavour to be available for the entire duration of the event to help
coordinate activities, and you may email me at any time at
iainmcgin@...

Changes to the Scaladoc comments should be offered as github pull
requests to https://github.com/scala/scala . I also encourage such
changes to be reviewed by other participants, by directly commenting
on the pull request through github. Documentation which is reviewed
will hopefully be merged promptly with the help of documentation
tsaritsa Heather Miller.

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