At FLOSS Manuals, we have been using a method called a Book Sprint – collaborative authoring, one week at a time. In fact, Google’s “Summer of Code” project has sponsored two of these sprints. The latest was just this month for a completely open source video format called Ogg Theora. The sprint got a mention […]
Advanced wiki techniques – collaboration in authoring
Today I gave a presentation remotely to some members of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) called “Climbing the Levels of Collaboration: Or, How to Harness the Power of Crowds (or your Coworkers).” I enjoyed the questions the most. Surprisingly all the questions were asked using the chat area of the conferencing software, not audibly […]
Structured Wikis and Software Engineering – Documentation Throughout the Process
Lisa Dyer and I have co-authored another paper about structured wikis, using DITA as the structure for the wiki. The paper contains specific ideas about using wikis both internally and externally for software engineering processes and software documentation. Our assertion is this: While either waterfall development methods or Agile development methods could benefit from the […]