Choose Conversation and Community

{ Posted on Jul 22 2012 by annegentle }
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We're closing in on the second edition of my book being released and available! I'm super excited about it. I can't stop thinking about it. On the way back from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, I started doodling in a ...Read More »

Facebook for Social Support? I like.

{ Posted on Jun 01 2012 by annegentle }
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When we first rolled out TryStack, a place for trying out cloud! for OpenStack, we heard the groans from the audience since our first ID check is through a Facebook login. No Facebook, no TryStack. But since we've worked through ...Read More »

Best Twitter Account Idea Yet from The Information

{ Posted on May 02 2012 by annegentle }
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You know how all these bizarre yet entertaining Twitter accounts keep popping up? The character-based Mad Men account, @BettyDraper the one quoting his hilarious father (with the not-censored four-letter-word-in-the-title), the FakeSteveJobs account, and how about this insane spam one, @horse_ebooks, ...Read More »

Must Read: Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate

{ Posted on Apr 26 2012 by annegentle }
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"Who cares about printing money, let's print chocolate!" --Chapter 23, Driving Wiki Development, Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate Do you need proof that Sarah Maddox, author of Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication, is a complete chocolate ...Read More »

Command line reference with true scrolling

{ Posted on Apr 24 2012 by annegentle }
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I'm at the OpenStack Design Summit this week, and one of the OpenStack companies here, Piston Computing, created a pen that contains a scroll inside. When you open the scroll, you can see all the commands available for the "nova" client, ...Read More »

Musings on Collaborative Authoring

{ Posted on Apr 13 2012 by annegentle }
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I'm reading new thinking from Adam Hyde, FLOSS Manuals founder, in a new book titled "A Webpage is a Book" at http://www.booki.cc/a-webpage-is-a-book/_edit/. I found the gem of a quote above in the section on collaboration. He is re-writing ...Read More »

Open Advice Book Now Available

{ Posted on Feb 10 2012 by annegentle }
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What we wish we had known when we started working on free open source software (FOSS) - that is the premise of this essay collection, Open Advice. What's especially interesting to me after having read all 42 essays is there ...Read More »

Exciting Future for Collaborative Printed Electronic Books

{ Posted on Feb 06 2012 by annegentle }
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The future of the book is in your hands from Sourcefabric on Vimeo. Sourcefabric builds open source software to support independent media worldwide. On February 14th, we'll announce our tool to help people and organisations write and publish great multi-platform ...Read More »

Pick a beat for release notes

{ Posted on Jan 23 2012 by annegentle }
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This is fun. Fedora has "beat writers" which harken to journalists tracking a story. Each beat is a section in the release notes. I found it while poking around on the Fedora wiki pages that describe how they do documentation. ...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 »
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