[FM Discuss] Report from Writing Open Source

[adam hyde]

sounds like it was a good conf. cool that you went :)

i think the book sprint manual should be done soon if it will be
interesting to anyone that was there maybe we can fwd the url once its
'done'

adam


On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 23:44 -0500, Janet Swisher wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Andy Oram <andyo at oreilly.com> wrote:
>         I got a lot of the write-ups, Janet. I would have come to the
>         conference if I had the money to come; it clearly was a good
>         sharing and learning experience. One more thing I'd ask is the
>         kinds of personal connections people made and whether any
>         individuals or groups are working together in some major ways
>         that they weren't doing before.
> 
> Definitely there was a group cohesion that emerged. Emma Jane said on
> her blog "We're not just conference participants anymore, we're a
> crew." The biggest thing is that the Ubuntu, Gnome, and xfce people
> realized that more cooperation and communication upstream and
> downstream (between desktops and distros) could benefit everybody. The
> WritingOpenSource website is picking up new members who were not at
> the conference, such as from PHP, Evergreen, WordPress, and openSUSE.
> I mentioned the interest in DITA in my blog posts; I'm working on
> finding DITA people for Shaun M to talk to so he can wrap his head
> around it.
> 
> --Janet
> 
> 
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