Meeting users where they are
With both a two-day conference and a three-day sprint, the Open Help Conference made for a busy week, but I must say that it was a success. We had people there from Gnome, Mozilla, OpenStack, Red Hat, BSD, as well as people who were interested in learning about open-source help. Everyone had something to share. [...]
Open Help Conference, 2011
I’m in Cincinnati in advance of the Open Help Conference, an event organized around open source docs, and the building of community documentation efforts in commercial projects. The conference will kick-off this evening with a social event, and will continue (with both the conference and post-conference docs hackfests) through Wednesday. The event has some great [...]
Gnome 3 documentation hackfest
Although I’ve primarily worked on Xubuntu documentation in the past, this cycle has seen me contribute quite a bit to gedit documentation. Unfortunately, I’ve asked, and the gedit team isn’t going to be making an additional release for the 2.3x branch, so these updates won’t be included in Ubuntu 11.04. : / Update: I’ve spoken [...]
Project News & Status Updates
Here’s a somewhat quick run-down of some projects with-which I’ll be participating, and some other projects that, while I might not be a direct participant, I am curious to watch develop. Xfce Updates I see the LXDE project get a good amount of attention lately, in large part (I think) because it uses somewhat less [...]
Top 50 technical writers on the web + Xfce and Xubuntu doc updates
This site lists who they’ve identified as the top 50 technical writers on the web, which I stumbled upon via a link from Scott Nesbitt’s blog. While this list will certainly provide me with additional documentation resources, I notice a dearth of open-source documentation names in that list. No Shaun McCance, no Emma Jane Hogbin, [...]
Ubuntu Chicago and the Global Bug Jam
Per Daniel Holbach’s recent blog post about the Global Bug Jam, I thought I’d add my two cents (or give you a penny for my thoughts, and donate the additional penny to charity) about what the Ubuntu-Chicago Local Community Team is planning for the Global Bug Jam. There are still quite a few details for [...]
Xubuntu meetings, website, and documentation
Things seem to be moving right along in Xubuntu-land. We’ve scheduled regular meetings for the Xubuntu team for the remainder of the Intrepid release cycle, have posted them to our wiki, and have passed along word to the communications team for inclusion of the meeting dates on the Fridge. Having regularly scheduled meetings helped keep [...]
From the fringes of Xubuntu
Cody Somerville has been writing quite a bit lately about what’s going on with Xubuntu, focusing a lot on the strategy document and some technical goals for the next release, but we also have a couple of other things in the works – some items that are kind of on the fringes of the distro, [...]
Xubuntu News
The Xubuntu documentation for 8.04 is done, and the doc-centered folks are now working on updating the wiki. There are still quite a few holes in it for now, but we’re working fairly quickly. I like the new menu bar. It makes it easy to get around. Also, I know it’s not much notice, but [...]
Xubuntu documentation for version 8.04, the Hardy Heron
The Ubuntu documentation team has recently migrated all flavors of *Ubuntu documentation from Subversion over to Bazaar. There are now separate branch repositories for each of the flavors, and instructions on how to download the repositories (and how to submit your changes) are up on the Ubuntu wiki. Thanks to Matthew East and a few [...]
