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March 9, 2011 by annegentle

Trends and Open Source Writing

Trends and Open Source Writing

I get the greatest emails sometimes, thanks to my blog. Here’s the lead-in line that especially piqued my interest: “I’m researching trends in technical communication for a grad-level writing class,” She had me at trends in technical communication. And research. So of course, I read on. ” and I’ve found lots of posts on the […]

Filed Under: social media, work, writing Tagged With: community, documentation, open source, openstack

January 14, 2011 by annegentle

Open Help is Open

Open Help is Open

The tech writers who are established, recognized figures in open source you can probably count on your fingers and toes. About two years ago they gathered for the Writing Open Source conference, hosted by Emma Jane Hogbin. I couldn’t attend myself – it was the year of the pinata bat incident. But the group of […]

Filed Under: techpubs, tools Tagged With: community, documentation, open source

September 10, 2010 by annegentle

Working at Rackspace with OpenStack

Working at Rackspace with OpenStack

I’m finishing up my first partial week as a “Racker” – that’s what employees at Rackspace are called. I’m a special sort of a racker, a stacker, because I’ve joined the OpenStack team as the OpenStack Technical Writer. My wiki apprenticeship and open source documentation experiences with FLOSS Manuals gave me great training for this […]

Filed Under: wiki, work Tagged With: open source, openstack, rackspace, wiki

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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 […]

Cisco DevNet is our developer program for outreach, education, and tools for developers at Cisco. From the beginning, the team has had a vision for how to run a developer program. Customers are first, and the team implements what Cisco customers need for automation, configuration, and deployment of our various offerings. Plus, the DevNet team […]

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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