{"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":"<p class=\"lead\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Online_participation\">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<p>1. Reciprocity &#8211; Help out others who will help you later or already did help you out.<br \/>\n2. Reputation &#8211; Build your reputation as an expert in a given area.<br \/>\n3. Efficiency &#8211; Write it down so you save time later, either your own time or others&#8217; time.<br \/>\n4. Attachment &#8211; Feel like you&#8217;re part of a bigger mission and vision.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.openstack.org\/cactus\/openstack-compute\/starter\/content\/\">OpenStack Compute Starter Guide<\/a>, which quickly jumped to the top ten list in the web stats. They&#8217;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<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/CSS-OSS-team.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1420 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"CSS Corp Open Source Service Team\" src=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/CSS-OSS-team.png\" alt=\"CSS Corp OSS Team led by Murthyraju Manthena\" width=\"512\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/CSS-OSS-team.png 1023w, https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/CSS-OSS-team-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/CSS-OSS-team-768x234.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the sense of reciprocity &#8211; giving back your info since you got Volumes working in your environment. Here&#8217;s Razique Mahroua sporting his shiny new ringer T as well, after re-vising the entire<a href=\"http:\/\/docs.openstack.org\/diablo\/openstack-compute\/admin\/content\/managing-volumes.html\"> Volume Management section of the Compute Administration Manual<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_0875.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1421 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Razique Mahroua\" src=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_0875-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_0875-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_0875.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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&#8217; time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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