[ILUG] grokdoc...

[Timothy Murphy]

On Sunday 18 April 2004 18:33, kevin lyda wrote:
> grokdoc!
>
> newbie announcement:
>
>     groklaw has a spinoff.  no, no, not "joey!"  it's grokdoc.  it's a
>     free software documentation project driven by YOU!  instead of those
>     geeks writing more of those crappy docs that only they understand,
>     YOU will write docs that will be MUCH better and maybe show those
>     literacy-challenged geeks how to write docs in the first place.
>
>     see here for more:
>
>         http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040418085408603

I looked quickly at this, but I didn't see any documentation -
has any actually been produced?

I must admit I'm slightly dubious.
While much documentation written by geeks is bad,
the only good documentation I have seen _was_ written by geeks.

I'm willing to try, but I don't have much confidence
that documentation written by people who acknowledge they have no expertise
will be very useful.

[I'm just wondering if a book on the calculus by someone who admitted
they didn't know much about the subject could possibly be of  value.]

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