Deptford.TV organised the transmission.cc documentation workshop looking at how to create manuals for FLOSS. See the wiki for further infos & outcomes.
London Docs Gathering
A few of the crew from the Transmission documentation working group are going to be meeting up in London in a couple of weeks to talk online video distribution documentation.
The aim to create a common repository for housing and collaborating on documentation to avoid re-inventing the wheel and to create a better resource.
The dates are May 22/23. More info can be found here
http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Documentation_working_group
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and a very nice meeting it was too, productive with friendly people, nice views and very tasty munchies, thanks adnan! best thing about it from my perspective was the decision to create ‘ways in’ to floss documentation for users with specific needs and tasks to achieve. we used a free mind plugin (what a lovely name) to map the routes that people with a video to put online might find they want to take to their goal. By asking basic questions at every level, I suspect that people will be better able to identify and locate the free software they need, not just be presented with a smart looking guide to using some inexplicably named ffmpegahedron software to achieve some obscure sounding task relating to codecs and other stuff they’ve never heard of…. so hurray for a new, user friendly way forward for online video floss documentation : ))