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 where writers come together to learn how to write good user documentation. BookSprints are also […]
Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Attracting girls to IT
15% of people are from the northeast 15% of people left handed 15% of people in the world have no cell phone, or no Internet And… less than 15% of computer science majors are female. [1] This was the lead-in for the panelists and I liked the tie-ins of 15. Since this session, I have […]
SXSW Interactive starts today – pack your XO
So many sessions that I want to attend, but at least sched.org lets me select more than one session at a time. Such an awesomely simple interface and login is so quick, just an email address and a password and you’re scheduling in no time. I’ve also put an invite out on upcoming.org to anyone […]