Posts Tagged ‘manuals’

Agile Across the Enterprise

{ Posted on Dec 11 2009 by annegentle }
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As a guest post on The Agile Executive blog, I was invited by Israel Gat to describe book sprints as an Agile method for documentation. Here is the beginning of the post and I encourage you to read the rest ...Read More »

Popularity of writing the manuals?

{ Posted on Jul 26 2009 by annegentle }
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Recently we had a few discussions on the FLOSS Manuals list about how to increase the quality of documentation for an open source project, and noted that quantity does not always increase quality. And someone noted that bad doc is ...Read More »

What FLOSS Manuals did at Winter Camp

{ Posted on Mar 16 2009 by annegentle }
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My summary view is that we activated and energized our network, borrowing those terms from Zita Joyce, my outreach co-worker for the week whom I quizzed endlessly about what it's like to live in Amsterdam. It was a productive and ...Read More »

OLPC Book Ready for G1G1!

{ Posted on Nov 16 2008 by annegentle }
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Tomorrow, Monday, November 17 is the launch of the new Give One Get One campaign for 2008 - meaning, once again you can buy your very own XO laptop. The tagline for this year is Give a Laptop. Get a ...Read More »

FLOSS Manuals book store now open!

{ Posted on Oct 08 2008 by annegentle }
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I went out for a run this morning and realized it has been a year this very week since I started my volunteer work with OLPC. This project was my first foray into the open source world from a contributor ...Read More »

BookSprint for Floss Manuals writing for the XO and Sugar

{ Posted on Jul 26 2008 by annegentle }
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I've been busy lately working on plans for a Floss Manuals BookSprint. A BookSprint is a week-long concentrated effort of technical writers getting together to create a manual for free, libre open source software products. BookSprints are like a workshop ...Read More »