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September 14, 2020 7:15 am

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Two More Weeks to Go: Documentation Survey – Your Chance to Make an Impact!

Technical documentation is not limited to conventional product documentation in the form of guides or manuals. It consists of many different types, categories and channels. Of course, product and solution related information is important. But in addition, there are technical information documents of many different levels delivered by many different departments and subject matter […]

Tags: Best Practices, CaaSP, CAP, documentation, guide, HA, HPC, manual, products, SES, SLES, solutions, subject matter experts, Support, survey, SUSE Manager, technical documents, technical writing, Virtualization

Categories: Expert Views, Products, Solutions

By: chabowski

August 5, 2020 4:15 pm

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SUSE Documentation Survey 2020 – 2nd Take. Your Call to Action!

Or: Oops We Do it Again! The very first documentation survey we conducted last summer was a real success. We got a great amount of responses and highly valuable feedback about what we do right, but more importantly also where we can improve and what is missing in our documentation at SUSE. Now it is […]

Tags: document, documentation, guide, manual, SES, SLED, SLES, survey, SUSE, SUSE CaaSP, SUSE CAP, SUSE Manager, Technical communication, technical writing

Categories: Expert Views, SUSE News

By: chabowski

December 5, 2019 11:06 am

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Yes We Do it Again: SUSE Doc Day at SUSECON 2020

After the huge success of our first-ever SUSE Doc Day during SUSECON 2019 in Nashville, we are happy to offer a similar in-person experience for our upcoming SUSECON 2020 in Dublin, Ireland. Doc Day will take place on the last day of SUSECON, on Friday, March 27 2020 (09:00-18:00), at the Convention Centre Dublin Spencer […]

Tags: Best Practices, community, conference, container technology, Doc Day, documentation, Dublin, enterprise server, event, guide, knowledge sharing, Linux, manual, OBS, Open Build Service, open source software, Storage, SUSE, SUSECON 2020, technical writing

Categories: Expert Views, SUSECON

By: chabowski

November 14, 2019 12:23 pm

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The Brains Behind the Books – Part VII: Alexandra Settle

The content of this article has been contributed by Alexandra Settle, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team. It is part of a series of articles focusing on SUSE Documentation and the great minds that create the manuals, guides, quick starts, and many more helpful documents. A Dream of […]

Tags: communication, creative writing, documentation, documentation team, OpenStack, software documentation, SUSE, SUSE Enterprise Storage, technical writer, technical writing

Categories: Expert Views

By: chabowski

March 4, 2019 5:16 pm

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First-Ever Public SUSE Doc Day – Join us at SUSECON!

Can't wait to attend SUSECON 2019 ? Do you think documentation is important ? Have you recently had a look at the Web site? Did you realize there is something new on the agenda ? We - the SUSE Documentation Team - are super excited ! In the spirit of this year's SUSECON theme "My Kind of Open", […]

Tags: CAP CaaS Platform, Container, Doc Day, documentation, editing, openSUSE, openSUSE Summit, publishing, SLES, solution-based documentation, solutions, SUSE Best Practices, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSECON, technical writing, writing

Categories: Events, Technical Solutions

By: chabowski

November 22, 2018 2:23 pm

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The Brains Behind the Books – Part VI : Markus Feilner

This article has been contributed by Markus Feilner, Team Lead of the SUSE Documentation Team. I really didnt' anticipate what would be the long-term result of this night. No one did, then. It was late 1994, and this nerdy guy I knew brought a plastic bag full […]

Tags: Ari Lemmke, documentation, editing, infrastructure, IT magazine, Journalism, Linus Torvalds, Linux, Linux journalist, Linux Magazine, Linux software, Open Source, OpenVPN, OSS, Phil Zimmermann, publishing, S.u.S.E Linux 1.0, Sparc, SUSE, Technical communication, technical writing, writing

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By: chabowski

November 20, 2018 5:18 pm

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Yes We Can: Technical Documentation with DAPS for DocBook and AsciiDoc

This article has been contributed by Frank Sundermeyer, Project Manager of the SUSE Documentation Team. If you are working in technical communication, banking on DocBook for your documentation projects comes with many advantages. However, over the past few years, software documentation projects started to move from DocBook […]

Tags: AsciiDoc, community, content management system, contribution, DAPS, Developer, DocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite, DocBook XML, documentation, editor, engineer, engineering, enterprise solutions, Linux, openSUSE, Profiling, publication process, publishing, software, software architect, stylesheet, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Technical communication, technical writer, technical writing, toolchain, Validation, XML

Categories: Technical Solutions

By: chabowski

October 25, 2018 7:15 pm

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The Brains Behind the Books – Part V: Liam Proven

The content of this article has been contributed by Liam Proven, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team. It is part of a series of articles focusing on SUSE Documentation and the great minds that create the manuals, guides, quick starts, and many more helpful documents. The Wanderer […]

Tags: Dick Pountain, documentation, FOSS, Guy Kewney, Open Source, retro computing, SLES, SUSE, SUSE Linux Professional, tech communication, technical journalism, technical writing

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By: chabowski

October 8, 2018 10:01 am

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The Brains Behind the Books – Part IV: Tanja Roth

This article has been contributed by Tanja Roth, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team. It is part of a series of articles focusing on SUSE Documentation and the great minds that create the manuals, guides, quick starts, and many more helpful documents. The Early […]

Tags: a capella, African drum, community, computational linguistics, documentation, drum circle, Hackweek, Linux, musician, open source software, phonetics, SUSE, tech documentation, Technical communication, technical writer, technical writing

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By: chabowski

August 22, 2018 12:36 pm

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The Brains Behind the Books – Part III: Tomáš Bažant

The content of this article has been contributed by Tomáš Bažant, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team. It is part of a series of articles focusing on SUSE Documentation and the great minds that create the manuals, guides, quick starts, and many more helpful documents. &[…]

Tags: communication, Czech Republic, documentation, documents, Drupal, Linux, manuals, SUSE, technical writer, technical writing, techwriting, Vim