Let's Tackle Open Source Docs

摘要

The term "open source" describes software where the source code is available for anyone to view, use, change, and then share. The documentation for open source products is often of bad quality or non-existent. Yet documentation is highly valued in the open source community. Why the apparent contradiction? Because documentation is hard to write. That's where we as technical writers come in. However, getting started in contributing to open source can be hard too. This discussion presents some hints about getting started in open source, and introduces a new program called Season of Docs, which aims to foster collaboration between open source organizations and technical writers.