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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Re:Great in many cases... by emil.ede · 2004-10-23 18:59 · Score: 2, Funny

What do you mean? Is Apache not a big project? ;)
Other documentation projects by 2bluemike · 2004-10-23 21:32 · Score: 2, Funny

I heard the business school is also helping to write documentation on how NOT to lose to Wisconsin and Michigan. Go Boilers!
Beautiful! by Lee_in_KC · 2004-10-24 01:19 · Score: 2, Funny

I'm not sure if the true implications are really sinking in to some of you:

Imagine being free to write whatever you want and not having to document! Write whatever you want and some guy that slept in on registration day and missed out on a popular development class will document it for you because he got stuck in the documentation class. Finally a reward for those who actually get up on time in school!

That's just ... AWESOME!