“Hoosier,” the somewhat odd name for a native from Indiana, may have its roots in conversation. One of the stories is that when a knock from someone at the door rang out, the person inside would ask, “Who’s here?” and the greeting was shortened to “Hoosier?” Since I grew up in northern Indiana, my memories […]
Corporate collaborative authoring
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 […]
Announcing Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation!
I’m so pleased to tell you that my book is available now from Amazon.com and BarnesandNobles.com and for sale in Austin, Texas at BookWoman on North Lamar. Published by XML Press, this book was fun to write, difficult to finish, and a dream come true for me, a kid who read 500 books in a […]