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Linux.com :: Featureshttp://www.linux.com/feature/134131 [Linux.com :: Features] Our challenge with src2pkg was consolidating and organizing existing documentation and then adding to it where needed. Regardless of whether you are starting from scratch or looking to improve existing documentation, it is worthwhile to create an outline for the site.

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The Business of Softwarehttp://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.628400 [The Business of Software] Bug Tracking Software recommendations?: It will be used to track both bugs and enhancement requests. I'd also like it to include something like Wiki where documentation can be added and where we can collaborate.

tuxmachines.org - Do you waddle the waddle?http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/26622 [tuxmachines.org - Do you waddle the waddle?] today's leftovers: ... The Curse of Open Source License Proliferation; Few Words on LaTex Fonts; VIA Gives 16434 Lines Of OSS Code; Linux in Under 5 Minutes; How Fresh is the CPAN? Using a wiki for FOSS application documentation. Advertisement: ...

ffeathers -- a technical writer's bloghttp://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/yayyy-confluence-wiki-has-page-ordering/ [ffeathers -- a technical writer's blog] Yayyy! Confluence wiki has page ordering: [...] Confluence Wiki adds page ordering I’ve talked about Wikis before, and largely I think the core value comes through long-scale collaboration and, as such, haven’t really considered moving our documentation set to a wiki. There are very good cases for wiki-fying your documentation set of course, but for me there are one too many limitations.

Polymorph[Polymorph] Coaching the Next Generation of FOSS Developers: I think their overarching goal for the event is to teach people the essential skills of participating in open source projects and collaborative online projects (like Wikipedia).  I also would love to see this event spark a trend towards running similar events at many other conferences that deal with FOSS, Free Culture and the electronic frontier.

FOSS Docs the FOSS Wayhttp://jmbuser.livejournal.com/9322.html [FOSS Docs the FOSS Way] Publican - the "new" Documentation Publisher: To learn more, members of the Publican development and documentation team will be answering questions in #fedora-docs on irc.freenode.net on Thursday 2008/02/14 from 12:00 Australian Eastern Standard Time (2008/02/14 02:00 UTC/GMT; 2008/02/14 IST;

Computing for Sustainabilityhttp://computingforsustainability.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/posts-from-sigcse-humanitarian-foss-project/ [Computing for Sustainability] Posts from SIGCSE: Humanitarian FOSS project: I’d like to see them unpack this a lot more. The question of maintainance kept coming up, and I don’t think they have a coherent answer.

Hold Open The Glass Door...Pleasehttp://runab.livejournal.com/15064.html [Hold Open The Glass Door...Please] LinuxChix India - Pune City meet and wiki love: Most of us seemed to agree that enriching the wiki with content targetted at both new FOSS users as well as old users with special interests would help garner support and active contributions. Minutes should be up on Monday by Ani.

BWORKShttp://blog.bworks.org/2008/03/why-we-use-linux.html [BWORKS] Why we use Linux: Every time a person does a search on Google, they're using Linux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform#Current_hardware). Thus, if a person wants to get in the tech business, become a software engineer or a network administrator ...

Ubuntu Lookhttp://ubuntulook.com/2008/04/14/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-86/ [Ubuntu Look] Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #86: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingCds. === Brainstorm Update ===. Across the web, we have seen a lot of interest to the Brainstorm website in FOSS projects. The project wants to make an open call to everyone: the project is working on ...

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