On Monday 24 April 2006 10:56, Mitchell Brown wrote: > Sorry for the late reply: > questions and answers -- hmmm. What would this constitute > Documentation - I suck at > Translation - Pig Latin or 1337?! ;)
Open source products are used all around the world. So, the interfaces and documentation need to address languages for where the app is being used. (this is known as the 'locale', or 'localization'). That means spanish, chinese, mandarin, arabic, french, and even english in some cases.. :) Documentation is something a LOT of people suck at. But, the more you do it, the better you get. Documentation has different areas as well - end user guides, system administration guides, programming api's, etc... It all needs to be done, but it would be foolish to think that one person can do each area well. For example, programmers tend to be too technical (I'm guilty of this), so are not allways the best for writing user guides, but are sometimes the best at writing the api docs - when they have time to do so. Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
