Category: Documentation
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Massive Small Change
Read More →: Massive Small ChangeThe Engineers Without Borders UK Professional Network (EWB-UK PN) held their first conference on Saturday 22nd June. And what a conference it was. It was titled “Massive Small Change“, here is the hash tag for the live tweets #massivesmallchange. (Ignore Ianrosmarin’s individualised V3 promotions, it gets good afterwards.) If I had to summarise it I would say it was…
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Clear words
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Read More →: Clear wordsWordless instructions. This suggestion comes up almost immediately as the best way to deliver instructions to the developing world. Whether it be an answer to tackling the behemoth that is multi-lingual translation or addressing mass illiteracy, this is the answer that keeps coming up. It is easy to see why, it sidesteps the issues of translation and illiteracy.…
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Terminology and renaming
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Read More →: Terminology and renamingI will write up about the talk at OSHUG later on but this has been the first rest period for a while so I thought it would be best to update the project status first. Short form – back to the foundation and in need of a rename The last month has been rather quiet…
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Scalable Documentation
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Read More →: Scalable Documentationhttp://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1Zs8Ws/blog.paulpolak.com/?p=1111 by Paul Polak is perhaps one of the most important blog posts I have read related to affordable poverty alleviating technologies. Read it before continuing this post Read it? I hope to write a bit more about the delivery chain but for today I will focus on scalability. This paragraph covers the important aspects.…
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The Hexayurt and Documentation
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Read More →: The Hexayurt and DocumentationSo you want to build a hexayurt? There is no shortage of information online. But which website do you go to? What do you find there? The information is all there but it is a bit messy. Numerous diagrams and building guides. Many videos. Some with the latest developments, some out of date. The mailing…
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Infomap
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Read More →: InfomapHere is an attempt to map out how information flows in an idealised documentation and creation cycle of a piece of technology and how this can be seen at different resolutions. Currently the situation is that the polished documentation and documentors stages are bypassed. They fall broadly into three categories, the passing on of information, feed…
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Scope and Modular Videos
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Read More →: Scope and Modular VideosOften when I try to describe the project to people they get focused on a single aspect. This project is about documentation, instructions, open source ideals, and appropriate technology. During this starting up phase I will try to offer a glimpse at what the project hopes to cover. Today I took a first look at…
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Open and Shared
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Read More →: Open and SharedI had a meeting with Indy Johar at Hub Westminister and the project has now broadened in scope as well as narrowed. I had elements of this plan in the back of my mind but I have now been advised to bring it all to the forefront along with a new structure. The idea that it is not open…
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Quick Update
Read More →: Quick UpdateA quick update over what has been happening with the documentation project and why I’ve been quiet. I’ve added some of my work to http://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_Plywood . Images to be added as I make ones I am happy with. I’ve started migrating the work onto opensource platforms. I’m learning how to use Scribus and Inkscape. Not sure if…
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Who Documents?
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Read More →: Who Documents?Instead of repeatedly appealing for collaborators I am posting a series of my thoughts on documentation to publicise the documentation project. Part 1 – Why Document? Once again this will all be with respect to appropriate open hardware. (still deciding on what is the best label to use). Who is responsible for producing documentation about the thing?