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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Pros and Cons by fembots · 2004-10-23 18:25 · Score: 5, Insightful

I can see a couple of advantages such as independant, objective and professional documentation for Open Source.

On the other hand, I'm also concerned that these documentations might not be as in-depth as if they were written by the persons involved in these projects.

I mean, will we see a similar case like "The marketing department never understands what we IT is really doing!"?

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