Hello everyone! My good colleagues at Canonical are hosting Design and Documentation clinics at FOSDEM Fringe 2026.
If your project could use help on UX/UI, documentation structure and strategy, DocOps tooling… you can express interest in the relevant Matrix channels. And if you happen to be in Brussels next Monday, February 2nd, you can sign up in person.
Thanks for posting. I’d be interested if there’s the possibility to participate remotely. I won’t be able to attend this year, but hope to attend FOSDEM in 2027.
I’m the Documentation Team Lead Cat Herder for Plone. We’ve adopted Diátaxis, and we use Sphinx with MyST markup and other extensions. We have a long way to go to complete our migration to better organization of our documentation following Diátaxis.
I’m one of the colleagues Juan Luis mentions, and I’m helping to organise the event on Monday. Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ll have the infrastructure available for remote attendance, but I do think this is something we should consider in the future. We’ve run a few similar workshops, and it would be great if we could offer them online too.
On a related note, the documentation team at Canonical runs something called the Open Documentation Academy. We’re trying to encourage new people to open source by mentoring them through documentation issues. We do this through the repository and also through live presentations and workshops. We’d really like to include organisations outside of Canonical, and perhaps this is something you could consider? We’re planning sessions on Diátaxis and would love to have your involvement.
