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A Short Introduction to MadCap Flare
Adobe Technical Communication Suite - Integration
Adobe Technical Communication Suite in an XML Workflow
Are DITA and Component Content Management Right For My Organization?
Authoring and Publishing with XMetaL and DITA
Blogzilla: Why Blogs Are The Monster In The Business Closet
Building your Author-it Project
Case Study: DITA Cost and Reuse Metrics
Case Study: How DITA Helped One Documentation Team Work 5 Times Faster
Case Study: Nuclear Power, DITA and FrameMaker
Challenges of Creating Documentation for Mobile Devices
Choosing the English That’s Right for You
Comparing DITA Support in XMetaL and FrameMaker
Content Oriented Architectures
Creating Quality Content with Open Source Tools
Creating Visual Training Using MadCap Mimic
Creativity or Confusion Factor
Demystifying DITA to PDF Publishing
Designing and Implementing Embedded, Dynamic User Assistance
Developing a Content Management Strategy
Developing Quality Content in a Global World
DITA + Wiki = The Open-Source DITA2Wiki Project
DITA 101 - DITA… What’s up with that?
DITA and Global Information Management (GIM)
DITA and The Metadata Maturity Model
DITA and XML Authoring the Natural Way
Featured Presentation - Sustainable XML for Publishing Applications
Four Features That Matter When Choosing a Help Authoring Tool
Games to Explain Human Factors
Getting Up-to-Speed on Eclipse User Assistance
Global Sales in Local Languages
Globalizing a CMS-based Website from the Ground Up
How to Get the Most Out of Content Migration to DITA
How To Leverage More When Writing For A Global Audience
Improving User Assistance Using Journalistic Principles
In With Wiki, Out With Structure (Hint: It’s not what you think it means!)
It’s What’s Between the TAGS that Counts!
Keynote: The Next Generation Home Digital Experience
Lean Instructional Design for Today’s Competitive Environment
Learn How To Use a Wiki At Work
Leveraging Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing with Adobe Software
Localization Makes Strange Bedfellows
MadCap Flare - An Introduction to Topic Based Authoring
MadCap Flare - Content Control and Publishing Techniques
MadCap Flare - Controlling Document Look and Feel with CSS
MadCap Software - Product Demonstration and DITA Suport Announcement
Managing the Move to Structured Content
Metadata, Taxonomies, and Information Architecture: Putting the Pieces Together
Migrating to DITA and Component Content Management for Global Customers
Moving from Unstructured Documents to Structured XML
Principles of Web Operations Management
Process Modeling for a DITA Environment
Producing Quality Documentation In An Agile Development Environment
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Read, Write, Remix: The FLOSS Manuals Story
Speaker: Adam HydeTime: 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM Date: October 31
Track: Keynote
Experience level: All levels
Room: Grand Ballroom Salon F
Community documentation projects are on the rise and represent many interesting shifts and challenges for technical writers. If you are interested in how community documentation is growing and what the tools and processes are then this session is for you. The session uses the fast growing and innovative FLOSS Manuals as a case study.
FLOSS Manuals was launched in October 2007 as a platform and community dedicated to creating free documentation about free software.
Since that date the technology has been extended to include many interesting new features and continues to grow. The growth however is determined by demonstrated need mixed with a little speculation to ensure FLOSS Manuals is a platform people can use while at the same time being highly innovative. Recent development cycles have included the implementation of:
- translation workflow tools
- localisation tools for creating FLOSS Manuals in new languages (eg. Farsi)
- print on demand source file creation
- content remix tools
FLOSS Manuals is now moving into developing tools to support our Book Sprints and remote collaboration. Book Sprints are a model we are continually refining which involves bringing writers together in online and in real space to produce unusually high amounts of content in a short period.
In addition to the technology the community is growing and flourishing. We have several hundred contributors and are now the official documentation repository for many free software documentation teams including the well known One Laptop Per Child software projects.
This session will look at the tools, technologies, and community of FLOSS Manuals and investigate where Founder/Manager Adam Hyde believes the emergent free documentation sector is heading.
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