OSDDP: Involving Students With Open Source Docs

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 23, 2004 @06:10PM from the hey-look-they're-adding-to-the-commonwealth dept.

cel4145 writes "The Professional Writing Program at Purdue University recently began the Open Source Development and Documentation Project (OSDDP) where students and instructors across multiple sections of business and technical writing are producing documentation for and about open source applications (see the press release or a mirror). The community and project are modeled after the open source development model and based on service learning principles. For example, students are already working on end user documentation and case study analysis for Drupal and market research and analysis for OpenOffice. Completed texts will be published using a Creative Commons license."

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Don't do it. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-23 18:53 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This is a bad idea. What good is a degree or certification in "OSS" documentation going to do you? All some future employer is going to think is "Hm... open source.. this guy sounds like trouble.. better that I avoid him".

All corporations hate open-source. At best, they begrudingly tolerate or court it - but in their ideal world, it would be obliterated and it would be business as usual.

Having this degree or certificate would be like joining the military with Green Peace on your background.