Top Open Source technical writers on the Web
11 Nov
Posted by admin as Open Source, technical communication
A while back, Ivan Walsh put together a list of the top 50 tech writers on the Web. That list was an interesting mix of people we’d heard of and regularly read and a few new names.
Then, Jim Campbell pointed out that no Open Source technical writers were mentioned. This is our attempt at rectifying the situation. Here we go (in no particular order):
- Janet Swisher
- Jim Campbell
- Emma Jane Hogbin
- Lana Brindley
- Paul Cutler
- Addison Berry
- Milo Cassagrande
- Jes Fraser
- Anne Gentle
- Edward Cherlin
- Mike McCallister
- Shaun McGance
- Anyone and everyone (at least, not mentioned above) involved with FLOSS Manuals
- The many folks involved in the Fedora Docs Project
- Josh Saddler
- Sven Vermeulen
We’ve missed more than a few people. If you can fill in any of those blanks, please do so by leaving a comment.
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Scott Nesbitt (scottnesbitt) 's status on Wednesday, 11-Nov-09 11:54:34 UTC - Identi.ca
November 11th, 2009 at 7:54 am
1[...] http://www.dmncommunications.com/weblog/?p=1518 a few seconds ago from Gwibber [...]
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November 11th, 2009 at 9:03 am
2[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by DMN Communications, Dan Pintilie. Dan Pintilie said: And a shorter list with Open Source technical writers: http://bit.ly/4ealwJ [...]
Paul Cutler (prcutler) 's status on Wednesday, 11-Nov-09 15:22:01 UTC - Identi.ca
November 11th, 2009 at 11:22 am
3[...] http://www.dmncommunications.com/weblog/?p=1518 a few seconds ago from Gwibber [...]
» Top Open Source technical writers on the Web Ubuntu Musings
November 11th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
4[...] can check out the current list here. Feel free to leave a comment on that post, or on identi.ca, with the names of (and links to) [...]
Karsten 'quaid' Wade
November 11th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
5Not sure what the metrics used are … but it is worth mentioning the group of writers at the Fedora Project. In terms of sheer number of pages and breadth of content, this is the upstream for all Red Hat product manuals:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org
Probably more than a thousand pages of CC BY SA 3.0 Unported licensed content.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project
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November 11th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
6Social comments and analytics for this post…
This post was mentioned on Twitter by daqy: And a shorter list with Open Source technical writers: http://bit.ly/4ealwJ...
sankarshan
November 11th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
7There is a good number of folks who are part of The Fedora Project Documentation team who miss being mentioned. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
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Lana Brindley
November 11th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
8Hey, thanks for the shout out
- Lana
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November 11th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
9[...] Just a quick response to “Top Open Source technical writers on the Web”. [...]
JJoyce
November 11th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
10Judged how, exactly…?
Of the names on the list I know, I’d say probably only one of them does the same quality of work as a professional technical writer. (And that’s because he’s a professional technical writer.)
Donnie Berkholz
November 11th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
11Josh Saddler and Sven Vermeulen wrote large portions of the docs for Gentoo Linux, which is famous for the quality of its documentation.
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admin
November 11th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
12Wish we could say that it was a payment into our secret Swiss PayPal account, but no such luck. Mainly through being familiar with the work of the people on the list.
Which is why we stated in the post that the list was more than just a little incomplete, and ended the post with a request for additional names.
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November 12th, 2009 at 9:55 am
13[...] Top Open Source technical writers on the Web A while back, Ivan Walsh put together a list of the top 50 tech writers on the Web. That list was an interesting mix of people we’d heard of and regularly read and a few new names. [...]
Why Thank You! « Professional Open Source Documentation
November 12th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
14[...] Yesterday, a co-worker alerted me to the fact that my name had been listed as one of the Top Open Source Technical Writers on the web. I was blown away! I am seriously over the moon about it all, and wanted to sincerely thank both [...]
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November 12th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
15[...] a co-worker alerted me to the fact that my name had been listed as one of the Top Open Source Technical Writers on the web. I was blown away! I am seriously over the moon about it all, and wanted to sincerely thank both [...]
Lana Brindley
November 13th, 2009 at 6:31 am
16Just wanted to let you that I’ve blogged about this over at Professional Open Source Documentation and On Writing, Tech and Other Loquacities
Thanks again!
Lana
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November 13th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
17[...] this week, DMN Communications posted a blog entry about the Top Open Source technical writers on the Web. This was in response to Ivan Walsh’s Top 50 Technical Writers on the Web, which had a [...]
Canllaith.org » Changes
November 17th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
18[...] course, almost as soon as I had officially taken the new name, someone on the internet mentioned some of my Open Source contributions under my old name. It was going to happen, right? [...]
Canllaith
November 18th, 2009 at 12:37 am
19Thank you very much for changing my previous name, Jes Hall, to my current name, Jes Fraser – although I hope you didn’t think I was worried about it!
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Scott
November 18th, 2009 at 7:55 am
20Wasn’t worried about it. Just wanted to keep everything as current as possible.
atomopawn
November 30th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
21Diego Petteno absolutely HAS to be at or near the top of this list. He’s written some of the most detailed, useful, and practical blogs about build systems, compiling, and linking that anyone has ever done. Even though I don’t use Gentoo very much anymore, I still find his posts useful, informative, though-provoking, and (usually) accurate.
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Mike McCallister
December 5th, 2009 at 12:09 am
22Many thanks for the recognition! I haven’t had much time to blog lately, but an explanation is coming very soon.
Scott
December 6th, 2009 at 10:51 am
23@Mike, no need to explain. But now that you mention it …
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