On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 09:39 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:33:00PM +0100, Phil Bull wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > An idea was floated at WOSCON [1] to create a shared open-source style > > guide for documentation writers [2]. This would be a "vanilla" style > > guide, which projects could modify and extend if necessary. Advantages > > include: > > > > * No need for projects to write their own style guide from scratch > > * Reasonable uniformity in style and terminology across projects > > * Independence from external style guides, which may cost money to > > access > > * Projects which don't have a style guide get one for free > > > > We have people from GNOME, Ubuntu, Xfce and Drupal discussing this right > > now, and we'd love for other projects to let us know if they are > > interested in the concept, and to give us their feedback if they are. > > > > PLEASE get in touch via the WOS website [1] rather than replying > > directly to this message, since this is getting crossposted to a lot of > > doc lists. > > > > [1] - http://writingopensource.com > > [2] - http://writingopensource.com/node/14 > > Eric, > > Can we add this to the meeting agenda for this week? I'd suggest > that someone take the action item of bringing our Style Guide to the > WOS folks since it's free for them to use and remix. It may only be a > starting point, but should be somewhat helpful. > > -- > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug > Done.
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