In June of this year, a project to update the Ubunutu community wiki — dubbed “Summer of Documentation” — was undertaken by a few member of the Ubuntu community. Unfortunately, the project didn’t turn out as expected. Work got done, but not as much as hoped.

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To the uninitiated, it can be shocking how much documentation a software project can generate — outside of manuals, help files and the like, that is. Design and test documents, specifications, architecture references, and more. That said, there are many projects which have little or no supporting documentation. Why? The answer varies. With some projects, [...]

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Yesterday, we gave our presentation Gaining a Foothold: Using Basecamp to Improve Productivity and Collaboration at DocTrainUX 2007. Overall, the presentation went well — especially considering that this was 1) one of our first presentations not given to our direct peers, and 2) our first co-presenting experience. After a bit of a shaky start, we [...]

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