[CREATE] LGM11 panel proposal: attracting new devs

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Mon Feb 21 12:32:18 PST 2011


On 02/21/2011 12:00 PM, Nathan Willis wrote:
> I think this topic is important enough (and interesting enough, so far)
> that "Documentation of the Future" (meaning all the improve-docs ideas,
> not just the write-the-manual-first one) ought to be a panel in its own
> right, apart from "attracting new participants" ....
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> And maybe it ought to be on day one, so we can workshop some of it on
> days 2+....
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> It's cool.  LGM's definitely the place where new and unusual FOSS
> approaches ought to come out of the woodwork....
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> Nate
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> PS: ....
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> 2011/2/21 helen varley jamieson <helen at creative-catalyst.com
> <mailto:helen at creative-catalyst.com>>
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>     very interesting idea to write the manual first :)
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If we do this, it would be nice if some could show some prototype ideas 
of what this might look like or how this might work. What would the 
workflow be? How would documenters interact with coders?

Greg


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