[SeasonOfDocs] accessing Uber writing templates

[Jared Morgan]

Awesome news!
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On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 04:38, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> --
> Cameron Shorter
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