My year of a picture a day is drawing to a close soon. It has been a very hard year for me personally and looking back at my year in photos is fascinating. I’m so glad that I did this project. I didn’t get one every single day (you can see the missed days inContinueContinue reading “Photos and gratitude”
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Next steps for Drupal domination
It has been a while since I’ve been on radar, but with Drupal 7 fast approaching and Drupal living in the White House, we need to keep focus on one the keys to Drupal domination: documentation. Here is a little status update on where the Drupal docs world is these days and what’s coming upContinueContinue reading “Next steps for Drupal domination”
The Travel Wall
This year I’ve been traveling a lot. My Dopplr report for the first half of 2009 says I spent 69 of 181 days on the road. From April 1 to July 31, I spent exactly 50% of my time away from home. It is all for a great cause, making Drupal documentation better, and itContinueContinue reading “The Travel Wall”
Drupal handbooks IA work begins
The top priority in the Drupal documentation roadmap that was published earlier this summer was to reorganize the information architecture (IA) of the handbooks to make them easier to use and maintain. Becca Scollan volunteered to take the lead and she has been researching and building out a plan of attack. We are now atContinueContinue reading “Drupal handbooks IA work begins”
Drupal 7 docs depend on you
Drupal 7 is coming and it has a ton of UI changes with the D7UX lovefest that has been going on, in addition to a some very different APIs. This time around it’d be extra nice if we had up-to-date documentation when our beloved Drupal 7 hits the streets. Few want to write it, butContinueContinue reading “Drupal 7 docs depend on you”
Thinkin bout electronica
I don’t know how I survived long-distance travel before mp3s. You can only carry around so many cassettes or CDs. When I leave the house for a trip my earbuds are pretty much a permanent fixture until I am home again. At home, if I’m at my computer, I’m probably listening to something all theContinueContinue reading “Thinkin bout electronica”
A new movement: WOSdocs
I’ve been on the go so much that I haven’t had the mental space to sit down and articulate a lot of the cool stuff that is going on. A few weeks ago I took part in a new open source conference, Writing Open Source (WOScon). The conference was born from conversations Emma Jane HogbinContinueContinue reading “A new movement: WOSdocs”
Need some help: surveys, interviews and recording
A few weeks ago I posted a draft Drupal documentation roadmap on Drupal.org. In that post I attached the full roadmap of goals, but focused on the first two we are tackling: a new information architecture (IA) and recognition/reward for documentation contributors. We had a meeting in IRC shortly after and we discussed a numberContinueContinue reading “Need some help: surveys, interviews and recording”
Drupal Twitter hashtag hack
Too many times I have written a post, got it ready to go, set up my Twitter module to tell the world, and then right after I hit submit, I realize that I forgot to add the Twitter hashtags that will carry my tweet to glory. It occurred to me that maybe I should giveContinueContinue reading “Drupal Twitter hashtag hack”
Sharing across open source lines
Just one month from today I’m going to get three days of hanging out with brilliant folks from a number of open source projects to talk shop, brainstorm and generally have a great time. I’m heading to the Writing Open Source conference up in Canada from June 12-14. In the true spirit of open source,ContinueContinue reading “Sharing across open source lines”