Not the Docs
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Claims that editorial work measurably scales developer outreach: Mozilla Hacks publishes 38 posts by 29 authors in four months and drives nearly 1.5 million views. The editor role emphasizes context, inclusive language, and empathic revision rather than stylistic policing. Concrete experiments include a decentralized Rust blog call that yields 100+ submissions, spawns the read rust website (aka content-o-tron), and feeds the roadmap — an approach that demonstrably surfaces new voices and actionable feedback.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 6:01The Eloquent Woman
- 16:02Margaret Heffernan
- 21:32Establish Context
- 21:46Making the Implicit Explicit
- 23:10Closing Directive Experiment
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