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Update on-site training schedule in documentation
There is a great outline in the SecureDrop On-Site Training Schedule for getting new admins and journalists up to speed on SecureDrop.
This would be even stronger if it the outline were fleshed out and each section linked to a piece of documentation describing how to go about doing each task (for many of the tasks listed the documentation currently exists, if it doesn't, we should create it).
We probably don't want to go into too much detail, as the main purpose of this page is to give news orgs a preview for on-sites, not to provide an additional entrypoint into the docs. That said, the page (https://docs.securedrop.org/en/stable/training_schedule.html) does need to be updated in a few places - will coordinate with DST.
Wondering whether it'd be worth updating for remote trainings, since trainings have been split across longer than a few days, but also it's hard to say how long we'll be needing to do these remotely.
Certainly, @huertanix, that'd be a great update. Ideally, the URL for the training schedule would provide a concise overview to external folks, and always provide an up-to-date summary of our expectations of how a given training will run. Given how much is remote these days, that should definitely be spoken to in the docs.
Yeah, looking at this "high level" overview now and it's a bit long, and most of how we train on the journalist side of things is in the how-to-use side of things rather than going into the weeds on its inner workings or setting up introductions to what it is. Will adjust accordingly.
^ Aforementioned branch updates the schedule to match what DST is doing now. Not every bullet point links to a guide about a particular tasks, but the to-do list for the period right after an install is generally not inclusive of things that may/may not happen in 1+ years (rotating application private keys, etc). I figure those should be left to be answered in support questions, which admins will definitely have since they're not going to retain something they ran through in the midst of a whirlwind of installs and training a year before they have to do it. Also, this is to keep the training sessions within their time box. Going through 27 topics for admin training doesn't really fit in a 2-hour period.