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Open Documentation Hour, 6th December 2024

We speak to Joost, founder and Benevolent Dictator for Life of https://FreeSewing.org. We ask him about building a community of 100,000 users, how he approaches documentation, and how dropping out of college ultimately led to success. Huge thank you to Joost for joining us!

Open Documentation Hour comes from the Technical Authors team at Canonical, our Open Documentation Hour is hosted every Friday. Anyone is welcome to join.

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00:00 Intro
00:30 Welcome
00:50 An origin story
01:25 Introducing FreeSewing.org
03:00 As a sewing enthusiast, I'm in!
03:20 About FreeSewing
04:20 Your rights
05:00 Documentation
08:22 Pattern design tutorial
10:00 Welcome, Joost!
11:34 Another origin story
15:00 What gap were you trying to fill?
19:00 What does FreeSewing do uniquely?
21:00 Is sharing a fundamental part of the project?
23:00 How did you grow the community to 100,000 members?
27:00 Why is documentation so important to you?
30:00 What is your approach to documentation?
34:00 Why did you start with Guides first?
37:00 What are your documentation strategies?
43:00 Where do your developer docs fit in?
48:00 What can we do to help sites like FreeSewing.org?
53:00 Where does your flare from design come from?
57:00 Wrap-up, and thanks!