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November 16, 2008 by annegentle

OLPC Book Ready for G1G1!

OLPC Book Ready for G1G1!

Tomorrow, Monday, November 17 is the launch of the new Give One Get One campaign for 2008 – meaning, once again you can buy your very own XO laptop. The tagline for this year is Give a Laptop. Get a Laptop. Change the World. You can buy yours at amazon.com/xo. All our community author’s work […]

Filed Under: OLPC, wiki, writing Tagged With: book, FLOSS, Floss Manuals, FOSS, Lulu, manuals, OLPC, print on demand, wiki

October 21, 2008 by annegentle

BookSprint post on OLPC News web site

Here’s a post I wrote about the BookSprint published on OLPC News, an independent site that boasts about 5,000 readers a day. OLPC / Sugar – Book Sprint, part II: Action To build a set of books in five days takes a lot of preparation work that Adam Hyde, founder of FLOSS Manuals, described in […]

Filed Under: OLPC, Uncategorized Tagged With: OLPC

October 13, 2008 by annegentle

Wikislicing project gets real – introducing InfoSlicer as a Sugar Activity

Wikislicing project gets real – introducing InfoSlicer as a Sugar Activity

A photo of old school remixing – printing out Wikipedia articles and recombining them. 🙂 This was a fun learning exercise as part of an IBM Extreme Blue student project creating a Sugar Activity called InfoSlicer. Instead of using scissors, you can now slice information by downloading Wikipedia articles, editing and remixing them, and reading […]

Filed Under: DITA, social media, techpubs, wiki Tagged With: curation, DITA, information, information architecture, Linux, OLPC, Sugar, wiki, wikipedia

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I’ve been thinking a lot about developer support at Cisco recently, especially for the way the world works today with multiple cloud providers. This post is a re-publish of my talk from over five years ago, but the techniques and tools for listening and helping others are still true today. At Rackspace, we watched several […]

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I had a great talk with Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf Technical Writing consulting last week. Here are the show notes, full of links to all the topics we covered. Podcasts are great fun to listen to and participate in, if a bit nerve-wracking to think on your feet and make sure you answer questions succinctly […]

At the beginning of this year, I worked hard to summarize my thoughts on API documentation, continuous publishing, and technical accuracy for developer documentation. The result is an article on InfoQ.com, edited by Deepak Nadig, who also was forward-thinking in having me speak to a few teams at Intuit about API documentation coupled with code. Always […]

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