Write Tutorials - Help Community - Get Paid! (updated)

We are on the mission to create a very solid documentation base for Dolphin and now we ask for your help again. If you feel confident about any Dolphin-related subject and ready to share your knowledge with Unity members, please consider writing a Tutorial at BoonEx Trac.

We will review your submissions and will reward solid, quality works in a few ways:

- by paying money. Depending on quality and community feedback it may be somewhere around $100-300 per tutorial. You would also be featured as the author of the tutorial and would be allowed to place a link to your site in your Author signature. Thus, it is a promotion opportunity, too.

- by promoting you and your site on the Tutorial page. You would be featured as the author of the tutorial and would be allowed to place a link to your site in your Author signature.

- by featuring your work in Newsletter and Blogs. Your tutorial will be announced in BoonEx Blog and BoonEx Newsletter, thus promoting you and your site even more.

- by giving Premium Membership. Authors of good Tutorials may be given a free Unity Premium Membership or extra period of their current Premium Membership.

- we are also happy to negotiate any other reward for worthy works.

Note, however, that lesser quality may mean that your work would be pulled. So, feel free to discuss (at uno@boonex.com) your ideas and progress with us. We're happy to collaborate on your Tutorials.

What Constitutes a Good Tutorial

The quality and usefulness would be for the most part determined by BoonEx and by community feedback. Generally we expect a digestible volume of text and screenshots that one can read and make use of within a few hours. So, it may be 200 words or 2000 words, or 20,000 words, but those words must be really useful.

It must be in English. Sorry for language intolerance, but we can only facilitate internal and community evaluation of English texts.

It must be properly formatted in BoonEx Trac Wiki. It's not a hard thing to learn.

Some Ideas

Just to kick-start your imagination, some ideas on Tutorials we'd be interested in:

1. How to build an online dating site using Dolphin.

2. How to build a matchmaking site using Dolphin.

3. Make money with Dolphin - monetization tips.

4. Advertising and marketing your new community site.

5. Promote your community: white-hat SEO practices and Dolphin.

6. Staying lean - picking right Dolphin modules for your community, social network or dating site.

7. Dolphin copyrighting advice.

8. Dolphin localisation - things to consider when deploying for ... (Chinese, Indian, German, Russian, etc) market.

9. What you see is what you get - Dolphin design and visuals - tips and advice.

10. Managing your social network, community or dating site - tips and tricks.

11. Combating SPAM and SCAM - things that work.

12. Most effective and least obtrusive ways to contact BoonEx team and get support.

Think about it... a good tutorial may be written within a few hours, and may be a good opportunity and a great help for the community and BoonEx.

UPDATE. How to create a page in Trac:

1. Login to Trac using your Unity ID - http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/login

2. In your browser address bar, type in a new tutorial URL, like: http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/TutorialHowToDoThis

IMPORTANT:

- Start the URL with "Tutorial" word.

- Don't use spaces or special characters in URL.

3. Click "Create this page" button and start writing.

IMPORTANT:

- Use the WIKI formatting.

- Familiarize yourself with formatting used in other Tutorials and do the same.

More info here.