I received this set of questions from Laura Ferrar after a Central Texas DITA User Group meeting this summer, and I have been thinking about these for a few months. These are good questions. I’ll try to answer them to the best of my knowledge, but I do think I should lead with the disclaimer […]
Archives for September 2009
Corporate collaborative authoring
At FLOSS Manuals, we have been using a method called a Book Sprint – collaborative authoring, one week at a time. In fact, Google’s “Summer of Code” project has sponsored two of these sprints. The latest was just this month for a completely open source video format called Ogg Theora. The sprint got a mention […]
Tragedy of the commons
Are professional associations going the way of bowling leagues? I don’t think so. And I certainly hope not since my employer, ASI, provides software for non-profits which includes professional associations. But it is certainly an interesting premise that there are fewer mechanisms for casual introductions because of a shared activity like bowling or bridge. Robert […]