Contributing advice and experiences from tech writers around the globe.
May has been an exciting month as The Good Docs Project has been invited to become a GitLab Open Source Partner. Joining forces with GitLab brings us new opportunities to promote best practices in technical documentation for open source software projects.
About the project The Good Docs Project is an open source community of technical writers, doc tools experts, UX designers, and software engineers who are committed to improving the quality of documentation in open source.
The Good Docs Project is growing into a keystone project for software ecosystems. What’s a Keystone Project? In architecture, a masonry arch cannot be self-supporting until the keystone is placed.
The Good Docs Project just published our latest release of documentation templates! This version 0.3.0 (codenamed “Brooklyn,” as all of our releases are named after bridges) features four new templates:
One of our fave conferences is over for another year, and we want to take a moment to celebrate it. Write the Docs Portland 2022 conference, held in May, was a lively and successful event, abuzz with energy (as usual).
Do you find yourself in the shoes of someone who has to write documentation for the first time ever? The closer you look, the more you will find that technical writing is actually quite a broad discipline.
