Documentation and the Value of Non-Code Contributions

Update: 2016-08-25

Description

On today’s show Nadia and Mikeal are joined by Eric Holscher to discuss non-code contributions, how they are regarded in open source culture, their value, and how to incentivize this type of work. They also talked about how Read the Docs grew a documentation community, contribution guides, and why this work matters.

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Featuring:

Eric Holscher – Website, GitHub, X
Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Read the Docs

Write the Docs

Writing Great Documenation

Lawrence Journal-World

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Finale, thank you!

2018-03-2142:31

Design, software, and open source

2018-01-1901:10:17

Maintaining a popular project and sponsored time

2018-01-1901:02:12

Experiments and the Economics of Open Source

2018-01-1901:12:40

Open Source History, Foundations, Sustainability

2017-11-2201:19:33

Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout

2017-11-0158:38

Documentation and Quitting Open Source

2017-10-2001:05:16

Open source and supercomputers (Spack)

2017-07-1201:03:37

Crowdfunding Open Source (Vue.js)

2017-06-1501:01:24

BONUS – Behind the Scenes of Season 1 and 2

2016-12-2248:24

Funding the Web

2016-11-2201:14:24

Finding New Contributors

2016-11-1501:07:23

Open source and licensing

2016-11-0401:08:12

Open Source and Business

2016-10-1801:01:09

Liberal Contribution and Governance Models

2016-09-0801:18:16

Grant Funding: What Happens When You Pay for Open Source Work?

2016-09-0101:14:14

Documentation and the Value of Non-Code Contributions

2016-08-2501:06:48

Building Communities

2016-08-1859:09

Measuring Success in Open Source

2016-08-1101:13:22

Open Source, Then and Now (Part 2)

2016-08-0401:04:38

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Documentation and the Value of Non-Code Contributions

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Documentation and the Value of Non-Code Contributions

Documentation and the Value of Non-Code Contributions