Notes from the March ’24 FroGS conf open space

Published on March 23, 2024

Yesterday Elizabeth Zagroba, Huib Schoots, Sanne Visser and I ran another FroGS conf online open space. There were plenty of great sessions, below are some notes from the five sessions I participated in. Thank you to everyone who was there, I had a great time!

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From notes to shared documentation culture

  • Co-creation works for code. In what ways is co-creation for documentation different?
  • Why do we talk about "an audience" for documentation, instead of about "the contributors"?
  • The purpose of documentation flips from "what we build" to "what we built".
  • Old research paper on documentation: only documentation with lasting usefulness is architecture and test cases. Everything else is just notes.
  • Documentation heuristic: Is it easier/faster to reverse engineer it instead?

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