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Origin Story - Birth of the Good Docs Project

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 project
The Good Docs Project
Jun 8, 2023 — 546 words
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Becoming a Keystone Project

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.

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Cameron Shorter
May 15, 2023 — 295 words
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Template Release 0.3.0 & Using Our Own Templates

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:

The project Releases Testing
Ryan Macklin
Dec 16, 2022 — 640 words
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Write the Docs Portland 2022 Conference Highlights

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).

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Felicity Brand
Dec 8, 2022 — 872 words
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State of the Good Docs Project, May 2022

This has been an exciting past several months for The Good Docs Project! Our band of passionate documentarians and developers have worked hard on our efforts to investigate, synthesize, and share best practices in technical writing.

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Ryan Macklin
May 21, 2022 — 1442 words