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Category Archives: Documentation

Looking for a tech writing class to help

Ready for some classic back scratchin’? (That’s where you scratch my back, and I scratch yours.)
You are in charge of or part of a class in technical writing or documentation. We have an open project with tools, processes, and lots of great content to create and manage. In addition to using community-generated content […]

Last chance for GA — release notes for Fedora 9 due into the wiki

It may seem a bit early, and we have a remedy for that feeling, but it really and truly is time to get the last release notes changes in for Fedora 9 GA. You can view and update the source here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats
Preview here:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/

If you worry that this is all closing down far from the release […]

Reviewing toolchains — publican and /cvs/docs

With all the attention on documentation toolchains in Fedora Docs, I wanted to provide a quick scope on the differences between the toolchain we’ve been using over the years, in /cvs/docs, and the newcomer, publican. The goals are many: introduce a new toolchain to users of the old tools; show the many similarities […]

Document Freedom Day and a taste of bittersweet irony

While I was enjoying my colleague Ruth’s video for Document Freedom Day, I was struck by the irony that to get her message out widely, she was forced to write to a non-free format (Flash). “From our frying pan we leaped … and landed in another frying pan.” Fedora is often in […]

2 hours 19 mins until wiki freeze of Docs/Beats/

… then we’ll finish edits and begin conversion to XML. The POT file is due out to Fedora L10n in 26 hours and 19 minutes …
Update: oh, yeah, you might have the Fedora 9 release notes schedule memorized, or know that 16 March at 23:59 UTC is when the Docs/Beats/ pages on the wiki […]