I wrote a post on the O’Reilly Programming blog about our experiences writing a book in five days and revising it for publication as an O’Reilly book. The blog post is titled, The book sprint: Not just for code any more. This infographic summarizes the numbers quite well. Many thanks to Racker Claudia Charbel for […]
How to Build OpenStack Docs and Contributors through Community
I’m well past the three year mark, working on a new open source project that grows and grows every six months. I’ve been working closely with Diane Fleming at Rackspace to focus completely on upstream OpenStack. Upstream means that all of our documentation work goes to the open source project itself. So while Rackspace runs […]
OpenStack Operations Guide Mini Sprint
We held a two-day mini-sprint in Boston at the end of January to update the OpenStack Operations Guide. You may remember the first five-day sprint was in Austin in February 2013. This time, the sprint was shorter with fewer people in Boston and a few remote, but we had quite specific goals: Update from Folsom […]