atw: Re: Should we give the users what they want?

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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