atw: Re: Should we give the users what they want?
- From: Stuart Burnfield <slb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Austechwriter <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:14:54 +0900 (WST)
Coincidentally, Sarah announced on her blog a few days ago:
"We’ve decided to throw our official documentation open to
updating by outsiders."
They're having a 3-month trial to start with and it's not
open slather yet:
"We're inviting trusted partners and community contributors to
update our documentation on an ongoing basis."
Here are two posts that discuss the issues:
http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/community-authors-and-our-technical-documentation/
http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2009/03/cc_license_and.html
Interesting times.
Stuart
Tony wrote:
> Another session at the AODC Conference this year is one entitled
> "Delivering Enterprise Software Documentation through a Wiki",
> and it is being presented by Sarah Maddox, a technical writer at
> Atlassian. She has a blog (http://ffeathers.wordpress.com) that
> has been an invaluable resource for the many tech writers wanting
> to understand the challenges of using Wikis for documentation.
> (The documentation for Atlassian's Confluence Wiki product was
> created and is managed within Confluence.)
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