crudenipster

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I think that's true for most the popular FOSS projects as great documentation is an essential ingredient for getting more users.

That said, if I have to name one, I love the docs of Plex Meta Manager (now called Kometa). It has step-by-step guides, reference pages, and even example code to help the users.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I graduated as a mechanical engineer in 2020, but with corona and other economic factors, the job market wasn't great.

That said, I was already working as a freelance writer for different brands via Upwork by then — since I had seen the writing on the wall after watching previous year's graduates.

Fast forward to now, I've worked for different SaaS brands, web hosting companies, and manufacturing businesses.

I've written knowledge base articles, user guides, technical white papers, and faq articles.

However, I'm still not an expert as my experience with user manuals, software documentation, and so on is bit lacking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I love Immich's documentation. Even with my limited experience of YAML files, I was able to host a private web instance of Immich for my photo library.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

FreeCAD looks like a nice project because I'm a mechanical engineer as well. So, I'll look into it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. I'll look into NixOS as we need Linux documentation to welcome more users from Windows.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I'm referring to the user documentation.

 

Hi,

I'm a technical writer looking to build my portfolio in technical documentation. I've written technical blogs, how-to guides, and white papers for SaaS brands, but I want to gain experience working on back-end documentation.

I'm familiar with Python, HTML, CSS, C/C++ (to some extent), and SQL. Additionally, I've done considerable writing for cloud computing clients, so I have a solid understanding of cloud concepts.

I can work with Markdown, Git, or even Google Docs.

Please let me know if you're working on an open-source project that could use some documentation. Alternatively, if you know of an existing open-source tool that could benefit from documentation, I'd be happy to contact the developer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Awesome list. Have you found any app for recording calls? (I live in Hungary and receive calls in Hungarian sometimes and would like to record them to translate and understand what the call was about.)

Also, I don't see anything for audiobooks. I use Smart Audiobooks, but was wondering if there are more open source options.