Cameron Shorter

How do you, As a community leader, Recognize ‘hidden gems’ in a community, and Attract them to collaborate with you? ...

Great doc reviews go beyond reviewing doc quality. It additionally assesses the author’s assessment of their writing ability. We can then ri...

After thousands of collaborative documentation reviews, from our Good Docs Project technical writers, we have established a bunch of practi...

 At 5c per kWh, we know that Australian solar generates the cheapest energy in the world, but how does it stack up against coal when compari...

It’s surprising to discover the knock-on impact each of us has when we become that trusted friend who helps people or communities with their...

The Good Docs Project has been inducted as a  GitLab open source project partner , and Bryan Behrenshausen from GitLab interviewed us about...

Imposing Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) on open source contributors inadvertently imposes unnecessary legal risk on the people gifti...

Congratulations to Google's Open Source Peer Bonus award winners. Winners from The Good Docs Project include: Ophy Ampoh Ophy Ampoh is...

The Good Docs Project is growing into a keystone project for software ecosystems. What’s a Keystone Project? In architecture, a mason...

It's been a great three years at Google. So many opportunities to do something meaningful, to learn, to be impactful. Chromebook require...

Yep, I'm one of the profiled Google tech writers : Cameron's story I was surprised to wake one morning and realize I’d become a writ...

  "When [condition] the [device] MUST [do something]." It's surprising how many ways we can get this pattern wrong. This prese...

Congratulations to Google's Open Source Peer Bonus award winners. Winners from The Good Docs Project include: Felicity Brand Felicity ...

In a knowledge economy, effectiveness depends upon transferring ideas between people. Technical writing is the art of optimizing the communi...

 Congratulations to five templatateers from The Good Docs Project for your  Open Source Peer Bonus award  from Google.  This cool award ena...

Cycle from Curl Curl beach back to Forestway via bike paths, back streets, and a short stretch of dirt trail. 10 kms. 30 mins. Enjoy the jou...

  Why am I addicted to open source docs? "Giving back" adds extra meaning and purpose to my life. It's impactful. I can tackle...

Want a quick, 20 minute, pleasant and safe bicycle route from Frenchs Forest down to Warringah Mall? Try this:  Cycle from Frenchs Forest do...

Within non-trivial technical projects, it helps to have a common language to describe "good": It enables cross-feature comparison...

  Congratulations Alyssa, Angelos and Aiden for your  Google's Open Source Peer Bonus award .  This cool award enables Google employees ...

Big Ben clock Maintaining docs for an evolving software baseline is a constant pain for us technical writers. I'm often helping develope...

TS;DR (Too Sarky; Don't Read) I've been riding to work for around 30 years, and every year or two you see an email such as this, and...

The Good Docs Project is about to run a series of one hour workshops to brainstorm: What constitutes a good doctype template? How sh...

  I joined a panel at Contributing Today  talking about open source documentation with: Scott Riley, product designer  Gitbook , author of M...

Google has an awesome mission statement: "To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." ...

Here is a beautiful ride from Manly to Frenchs Forest using only quiet backstreets, cycle paths, tracks and fire-trails. Cycle Manly to Fren...

Lightning talk summarizing the status of initiatives within The Good Docs Project . Presented at Write The Docs - Australia and India. Sourc...

This interim status report outlines achievements, early findings and outstanding tasks for our cross-organizational glossary pilot project ...