{"id":1412,"date":"2011-09-26T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2011-12-07T20:43:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T02:43:40","slug":"documentation-contributors-styling-ts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/documentation-contributors-styling-ts\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentation Contributors Styling Ts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why give your time and efforts to an online community? Researchers like Peter Kollock have identified and studied reasons for people to contribute to online communities. I try to keep the basic principles of online participation<\/a> in mind for documentation contributors all the time, and find ways to recognize the people making a difference with the docs. The motivating reasons for contributing to technical doc or offering technical support in a community include:<\/p>\n

1. Reciprocity – Help out others who will help you later or already did help you out.
\n2. Reputation – Build your reputation as an expert in a given area.
\n3. Efficiency – Write it down so you save time later, either your own time or others’ time.
\n4. Attachment – Feel like you’re part of a bigger mission and vision.<\/p>\n

It’s within these motivating reasons to find a place where you belong that prompted me to send some t-shirts out last month. I also want to recognize their efforts here on the blog! Here is the CSS Corp Open Source Service Team sporting their OpenStack t-shirts in a team photo, led by Murthyraju Manthena (far left). This team contributed the OpenStack Compute Starter Guide<\/a>, which quickly jumped to the top ten list in the web stats. They’re working hard on revisions for Diablo, and this manual was a great addition to the OpenStack technical library for the Cactus release.<\/p>\n\"CSS<\/a>\n

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There’s also the sense of reciprocity – giving back your info since you got Volumes working in your environment. Here’s Razique Mahroua sporting his shiny new ringer T as well, after re-vising the entire Volume Management section of the Compute Administration Manual<\/a>.
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Wearing your OpenStack t-shirt is a great way to show you are a Stacker. I realize that sending t-shirts to contributors can seem like a small token of appreciation for the sweat poured into docs, but I like to send them any way when I’m especially impressed with the dedication. These guys are also building a great reputation as OpenStack knowledge experts. They are also a huge reason why the number of doc contributors has jumped from six to nearly twenty in six months’ time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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