I like to think about the future of documentation, ruminating on future processes, interactions, and tools. Yet this past week at the OpenStack Conference I was faced with the reality of the future of documentation as a storage device for knowledge. A long-term storage device, as in, 20 years from now, people (scientists, to be […]
Why Wiki?
In OpenStack-land, the wiki was chosen before I got here. It has a couple of flaws for my vision for open source documentation, which became more apparent when I recently outlined my reasoning for what content goes where. By walking through the “what goes where” talk about documentation and audience, I realized something about the […]