Matt Brailsford is definitely one to watch in the Umbraco community. He's recently sprung up on the Umbraco scene, and has made himself a big presence in the forum and on twitter. He's authored no less than 7 Umbraco projects (and counting!), is speeding his way to the top of the people chart on the forum, and I'm pretty certain he's destined for MVP status next year.

Anyway, in the past couple of weeks we have managed to cobble together the Umbraco Editors Manual from user manuals that both of us had lying around that we'd worked separately. It's been extremely well received by the community with feedback rating of over 50 votes since it's been released! As Matt says in his blog post about it, 'it stands as a good example of how anybody can contribute, even if you can't yet code those killer extensions.'

We're currently working towards incorporating the contents of the manual into the Umbraco context-sensitive help menus. This means that we've been given the authorisation to mess with what any Umbraco 4.5 user on the planet sees when they click the Help button in the Umbraco back-end. Not only is this slightly scary, it's also a great example of how the Umbraco core team are constantly involving the community, and thus motivating them to bigger and better things. (I also think that the community has a similar effect on the core team, which completes the virtuous cycle, but then I'd just be gushing :)

You can download the Umbraco Editors Manual here, or have a look at the Umbraco media section context-sensitive help here.