THANKS! Re: Software engineer tech. writers? Do they exist?

Chris Borokowski athloi at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 4 09:47:11 MDT 2007


I think some do contribute, but there are a lot of other people who
want to write documentation. Some of them do quite well. The PHP5
documentation is at times exceptional.

Many tech writers get a start with volunteer projects including but not
limited to F/OSS work.

--- Dossy Shiobara <dossy at panoptic.com> wrote:

> I'd like to follow-up with a second question: while it's not unusual
> for
> a software developer to contribute code to an open-source software
> project, I haven't (personally) seen much evidence of tech. writers
> contributing documentation, manuals, etc. to open-source software
> projects.


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