Opensource.com article that describes the benefits for using a rendered language (not wikis) for documentation.

Opensource.com article describing how wikis can be used for FOSS project documentation.

This blog presents a step-by-step approach for contributing documentation to a project on GitHub.

This is a guide to organizing a documentation sprint from Mozilla. It contains advice and tips from people who have organized doc sprints, to help you in organizing one, too.

This page reports on the results of a PHP Documentation Sprint.

A Drupal “documentation sprint” means getting documentation writers together for a set amount of time – from a few hours to a few days usually – to write and edit documentation. This page contains information about how to set up and run such a sprint.

Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. The book is released under an open copyright. You can buy it in bookstores, order copies from O’Reilly Media, or browse and download it here.

Students explore an open source project (QGIS, also known as Quantum GIS), hosted on GitHub, and answer a few questions about its meta-data. They are asked to read the implementation of its priority queue class, which has no documentation, and to write contract-style comments for the member functions in the interface file for that class.

11 ways to get involved in HFOSS

The goal of this activity is to test the correctness and completeness of the download and installation instructions for a FOSS project.

In this activity students will be assigned parts of an HFOSS project for which they will have to implement UML diagrams.

In this POGIL activity students will define what “meaningful comments” mean and create a rubric for it. Then, they will create meaningful comments for a given source file with undocumented code.