Configure gedit for documentation
I’ve been maintaining the gedit documentation since the run-up to the gedit 3.0 release, and doing so has helped me to get to know some of the ins-and-outs of the program. What can I say, it’s one of the perks of writing documentation – you get to know the software that you’re documenting. With that, [...]
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 [...]
Docs Team meeting – Sunday, May 29th – 20:00 UTC
Just a quick note to let people know that we’re holding an Ubuntu Documentation Team meeting tomorrow, Sunday, May 29th, at 20:00 UTC. When is 20:00 UTC? Here is how to figure it out: It’s easy (Yes, step one is, “It’s easy.”) Click on this fancy link. Look through the list of cities and find [...]
Ubuntu documentation at UDS: A summary
Now that my week at the Ubuntu Developer Summit is over, and I have completed my safe flight back, I thought I would write up a blog post about my experience while I complete my recovery from jet lag. My week at UDS was a challenging week. A great week. A week in which I [...]
Help for Ubuntu 11.04 – We are working on it
Trying to write documentation for both Gnome 3 and Ubuntu 11.04 had many of the documentation contributors a bit strapped for time, but we are making progress on user help for 11.04. Here is a quick peek at what we are doing: Click to play This is all done with Mallard and Yelp. KDE, you [...]
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 [...]
RelaxNG, Entities, and Namespaces
I ran into a couple of roadblocks in trying to use entities with Mallard recently, and thought I would share how I worked around them in case anyone else needed to do the same thing. Although my examples deal with Mallard, what I note here will also work for entities in DocBook 5 documents, or [...]
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 [...]
Duck, Duck, Gnu: Mallard and DocBook 5 support in Emacs
Edit: I recommend checking out Paul Frields’ post about Emacs and nXML mode, and also looking at the Fedora wiki page that he created. I think his approach is a bit simpler and cleaner than what I’ve provided below. Feel free to peruse what I’ve written, though, as some of my links to “getting started” [...]
