Re: Documentation Conference

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:48 -0500, Paul Cutler wrote:
> I came across this link via Jim Campbell's identi.ca feed today:
> 
> http://www.writingopensource.com/
> 
> A 3 day conference just outside of Toronto for documentation writers.
> June 12-14.
> 
> From the website, the agenda looks like:
> 
>    1. Day one: "high level" sessions by experts. Topics include:
>           * information architecture
>           * licensing
>           * commerce, revenue models and paying the mortgage
>           * learning styles and documentation to match
>           * community management
>    2. Day two: unconference for all projects to share their experiences.
>    3. Day three: team sprints (at this point Drupal is interested, but
> since the space will be rented others will be welcome to stay as
> well).
> 
> Cost $250CAD (includes food and airport shuttle).
> 
> Not sure if any GNOME documentation writers would be interested in
> going, I'm thinking about it, but I don't think I can afford the fee
> and the travel.

Oh thanks Paul!  This looks really interesting.

Anybody else interested in going?  It's interesting enough
to me as an opportunity to share with documentation folks
from other projects.  Throw in some other Gnome folks and
I'm sold.

--
Shaun