Announcement 1

TheGoodDocsProject Fixit Workshop

• 2019-11-11: Emailed to WriteTheDocs-Australia-2019 attendees.

Hello documentarians,

I’m hoping a bunch of you will feel inspired to join TheGoodDocsProject FixIt workshop, 13:00 Thursday 14 November 2019 at Write the Docs Conference, Sydney Australia.

We started TheGoodDocsProject to create best-practice templates and writing instructions for documenting open source software. With our alpha release, we’ve created some common templates which we’d love people to test, break and improve.

Topics:

Diverse contributions encourage. We hope to cover:

1. As a user or developer or writer: Try writing instructions for your favourite application based on one of our templates. Give us feedback.
2. As a technical writer or information architect: Review one of our templates, try and find limitations, suggest modifications, offer sections to add, debate improvements.
3. You have another idea:_ Let’s hear it._

Schedule:

• 5 min: Introduction.
• 30 min: Break out into groups brainstorming topic.
• 15 min: groups present back to everyone.
• 30 min: Break out2.
• 15 min: Groups present2.
• 5 min: wrapup and thanks

Logistics:

• We will have flip charts and pens for brainstorming, and
• We will use track changes and Google Docs. (Bring a laptop.)
• Source templates: https://github.com/thegooddocsproject/templates

Post Fixit:

• Join our email list or slack chat.
• Help us triage ideas into our kanban board and issue tracker.
• Contribute further.

Who are we:

• Cameron Shorter, Business Analyst by day, Open Source Developer and accidental Technical Writer by night.
• Jared Morgan, Senior Technical Writer at Squiz
• Erin McKean, Docs Advocacy Program Manager at Google
• Felicity Brand (attending remotely), Technical Writer for Google Season of Docs
• Sanket Totewar, Technical Writer and a few more things
• Others from TheGoodDocsProject