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PyLadies Austin OpenStack Presentation

{ Posted on Jun 07 2013 by annegentle }
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Categories : community, tools, work
The lovely and talented Barbara Shaurette invited me to speak to the PyLadies Austin chapter last night and I readily accepted! I was quite nervous as I had not one but two demos to run, one of which involved running ...Read More »

How It’s Made: the OpenStack API Reference Page

{ Posted on Apr 14 2013 by annegentle }
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Glad you asked! The site at http://api.openstack.org is a collection of HTML pages, and one page has an especially interesting story about how it is built. The http://api.openstack.org/api-ref.html page provides a listing of all the API calls for all OpenStack ...Read More »

Tools and skills in the red

{ Posted on Oct 12 2012 by annegentle }
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Categories : content strategy, techpubs, work, writing
If this isn't a snapshot of our industry, I don't know what is. A couple of observations: "Documentations" [sic] to me indicates an English-second-language speaker. Members listing that term as a skill is 245K, larger than the 107K "Technical Documentation". Looks like it's ...Read More »

Community Content Strategist

{ Posted on Sep 22 2012 by annegentle }
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I'm considering a request. It's a request for a new branch in content strategy. Now it's odd to even start such a fork when content strategy itself is so new, so nascent that its molds are barely even formed much ...Read More »

Career Focus: Community Documentation

{ Posted on Sep 13 2012 by annegentle }
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I gave this interview via email to Mandy Morgan, a senior at Missouri State University this year, majoring in technical writing with a journalism minor. She wrote up a memo for a career focus class based on the interview and ...Read More »

From Cement to Spandex – Making PDF and ePub

{ Posted on Dec 02 2011 by annegentle }
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Which statement is true: "PDFs are like cement." or "Gentlemen prefer PDF." Turns out both are true! See my recent OpenStack blog entry, Hacking on Ebooks, for more context and attributions for those statements. We recently held a hackathon which I blogged about earlier to ...Read More »

DocBook, ePub, Hackathon, What More Could You Ask For?

{ Posted on Nov 09 2011 by annegentle }
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This Friday, on 11/11/11, the Austin Rackspace office is holding a Hackathon. The projects range from "fix the arcade game" to "install notification system to indicate availability of the men's room" to my pet hack project, "create epub output for ...Read More »

Docs in 2031

{ Posted on Oct 11 2011 by annegentle }
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I like to think about the future of documentation, ruminating on future processes, interactions, and tools. Yet this past week at the OpenStack Conference I was faced with the reality of the future of documentation as a storage device for ...Read More »

Observations from the Open Help Conference

{ Posted on Jun 09 2011 by annegentle }
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I attended the Open Help Conference in lush, green, over-20-inches-of-rain Cincinnati over the weekend and learned so much. I wanted to share my observations in a longer format than the 140 characters I used sporadically during the conference. First of all, ...Read More »

Playing with the Future of Technical Communication

{ Posted on Apr 23 2011 by annegentle }
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I have a great group of mom friends who also happen to be technical communicators. One day last month, my friend posted this picture her 6-year-old daughter made and asked if technical writing is genetic. Ha! [caption id="attachment_1741" align="alignleft" width="171" caption="The ...Read More »
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