Brisbane Technical Writers
Meeting - Thursday, 2 July 2009

Documentation Using Open Source Tools

See how Red Hat produces end-user documentation in 26 languages using purely open standards and their freely available open source tool chain.

Presentation description

Joshua Wulf, Technical Writer and Team Leader for Red Hat Engineering Content Services, will present a session on producing documentation using Docbook XML and Open Source software.

The session will showcase Red Hat's Publican tool chain, running on the newly-released Fedora 11: Leonidas distribution.

During the session, you will see end-user documentation being output to both PDF and HTML formats, and a custom implementation of the gEdit text editor, which greatly simplifies the XML authoring process.

Come yourself and invite colleagues

The session is free for all Queensland Technical Writer members and each person will receive a complimentary disk containing the Fedora 11: Leonidas distribution, and Publican.

Light refreshments will be provided as part of the presentation.

Registration required

Register your attendance for this event by completing the registration form.
Or email Hamish on hamishblunck@yahoo.com.au

Getting there

Red Hat
Level 1, 192 North Quay
Brisbane 4000.

Catch a train to Roma Street and walk down Herschel Street, heading towards the river.

The Red Hat offices are located in the last building on the left hand side of the road opposite the Fitness First gym.

Josh and Jared will be waiting in the foyer to welcome everyone from 5.15pm onwards