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Making Documentation a First-class Citizen in Open Source Projects

Talkat FOSDEM 2021 · on Sunday, 2021-02-07· at 13:20· D.community· [documentation, open-source]

speakers

name:Ray Paik
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name:Sofia Wallin
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resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2021/D.community/community_devroom_documentation_first_class_citizen.mp4
slides:https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/community_devroom_documentation_first_class_citizen/attachments/slides/4280/export/events/attachments/community_devroom_documentation_first_class_citizen/slides/4280/FOSDEM_documentation_as_a_1st_class_citizen.pdf

summary

Covers why documentation often gets low priority in open source projects and how to change that by treating docs as part of the product and the same development/community processes as code. Discusses community-focused tactics—making documentation everyone’s responsibility, using docs as an onboarding/entry-point for contributors, and encouraging doc reviews and contributions—based on experiences from foundation-run projects and open source companies.

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