[SeasonOfDocs] accessing Uber writing templates

[Cameron Shorter]

Sharing good news from Stephanie, with her permission ...

On 3/7/19 6:32 am, Stephanie Blotner (Uber) wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
>
> Following up on being able to leverage some of Uber's template / best 
> practices resources for this effort, my manager thinks it's a good 
> idea! I need to do some more follow up with our open source/legal 
> folks, but consider this a tentative yes to sharing:
>
>   * What we've learned from rolling out dev templates
>   * Our TW course
>   * Our dev doc templates
>
> <snip>
>
>         On 26/6/19 3:39 am, Stephanie Blotner wrote:
>>         Hi Cameron,
>>
>>         Thanks for following up, I've been slowly working my way
>>         through the existing resources and blogs (I have a new July 8
>>         deadline for a work project, so I have been multitasking :) ).
>>
>>         I don't have bandwidth in this next month to contribute to
>>         the execution part of this effort, but am happy to share
>>         feedback and ideas.
>>
>>         I do think it's good to consider joining existing projects to
>>         avoid reinventing the wheel, if possible. The Write the Docs
>>         guide <https://www.writethedocs.org/guide/> seems like a
>>         great candidate for this, with good name recognition in the
>>         TW community.
>>
>>         Cheers,
>>         Stephanie
>>
>>
>>             On 22/6/19 1:02 pm, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>>
>>>             <snip>
>>>
>>>             For those being looped into this conversation for the
>>>             first time, here are some getting started links:
>>>
>>>             --
>>>
>>>             Stephanie Blotner is a tech writer at Uber and did a
>>>             great podcast
>>>             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZmAEuC2zuA about
>>>             empowering developers to become better writers .. and
>>>             quite a bit more. She covers some of this in this blog
>>>             post:
>>>             https://increment.com/documentation/primer-on-documentation-content-strategy/
>>>             . She has also suggested
>>>             https://github.com/San-Francisco-Write-The-Docs/lone-writers-guide
>>>             as a group who have started collating tech writer know-how.
>>>
>>>             Stephanie, you were wondering about IP and getting
>>>             permission to share company writing guides. The bottom
>>>             line is that in the digital economy, *collaboration out
>>>             competes competition*. Longer version at:
>>>             http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-open-business-business-case.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant

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