Wow, we did it! A book in two days thanks to a great group of writers, an excellent Subject Matter Expert, and remote contributors from Calgary to Moscow to Bangalore. This sprint was our first serious attempt to include remote contributors from anywhere. We had about 14 remote writers with at least 5-7 in the […]
What FLOSS Manuals did at Winter Camp
My summary view is that we activated and energized our network, borrowing those terms from Zita Joyce, my outreach co-worker for the week whom I quizzed endlessly about what it’s like to live in Amsterdam. It was a productive and exciting week for a fledgling non-profit like FLOSS Manuals. We have a pile of work […]
Free as in freedom, not free as in no cost
I’ve been telling writers early and often about the upcoming Firefox Book Sprint at DocTrain West March 17 and 18 to write a manual for Firefox 3.0 along side of Chris Hofmann, Director of Engineering for the Mozilla Foundation! I can’t go to DocTrain for various reasons, mostly because March is a busy month in […]