[FM Discuss] Need help with OSBR article

[adam hyde]

another interesting example you may wish to consider is the Ubuntu Doc
project. they have a very interesting very different contrib and content
model to FM. 



On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 12:45 -0600, Janet Swisher wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been invited to submit an article to Open Source Business
> Resource online magazine (http://osbr.ca) on the importance of
> documentation to the success of open source projects. I plan to
> emphasize the importance of *open-licensed* documentation in
> particular, with examples from FM and elsewhere.
> 
> Firstly, two projects that seem to fit well (for different reasons)
> with the points I plan to make are Inkscape and CiviCRM. If you are
> involved in the FM manuals for those projects and you're interested in
> being interviewed for this article, please contact me off-list.
> Secondly, if you're more involved with a different FM manual that you
> think is a good case study, please let me know. Thirdly, if you know
> of examples of FLOSS projects (not necessarily on FM) whose success
> seems to be due in good part to good documentation, please point them
> out to me (PHP and mySQL are two I've seen mentioned in this regard).
> 
> It seems like there's been a spate of article recently about open
> source and documentation. It's great that the topic is finally getting
> some attention. My challenge is to find something more to add to the
> conversation. I appreciate any assistance.
> 
> Cheers,
> Janet
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