OpenSolaris.org Content: A Writer's Weblog

My first time at the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group meeting in October was a very exciting and warm welcome to the OS project for me. I'm thankful to have met two community members who are passionate about documentation in all of its forms. It is wonderful, as a technical writer for a large engineering company, to find folks who want to talk about, ponder, discuss, complain, applaud, and just generally get interested in the publications that we produce. And we did, until nearly midnight, on the steps of the Santa Clara auditorium.

Now that I've ramped up on the OpenSolaris project, we're starting to make real progress on some of the topics that I discussed with our community on those auditorium steps. We've updated the Documentation Community web site with the following high-priority items:

• New front page content that is more approachable.
  
• New Big Doc List that provides a catalogue of links to all the docs that apply to OpenSolaris.
  
• New Contributor Resources page that provides links to the formal Solaris 10 documentation.
  
• New page for the Glossary
  
• Updated Documentation Roadmap.
  
• New page titling to improve usability.