===== Experiences with Modern Document Production =====


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====== May Meeting: Experiences with Modern Document Production ======

Date: May 1, 2014 at 7 p.m.\\
Location: [[history:location:29|Shopify Headquarters]]\\


This month we will be having a talk on experiences with modern documentation tools. This is not a tutorial on how to use them, but rather a series of anecdotes and examples of some relatively modern tools and the joy of getting them to work as advertised. This is a bit of a followup to the slide production talk from last December.

As per our newer format, we will have a one hour pre-meeting item from 6:00 to 7:00 for people who are new to Linux, have general questions, or wish to help out with people who are just getting started.


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===== Open mike time (lightning talk) =====

Speaker: [[history:speaker:60|various]]\\

If anybody has a short topic they would like to present to the group or some new thing they would like to share, this is your opportunity.

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===== Experiences with Modern Document Production =====

Speaker: [[history:speaker:19|John C. Nash]]\\
Speaker: [[history:speaker:73|Scott Murphy]]\\

This talk is on experiences with modern documentation tools, specifically some usage cases, tools used to attack the problem and the quirks and work-arounds that helped accomplish the task.

Topics include:

  * Building HTML web pages of annotated photos
  * Periodically updated reports
  * Transformation of formats
  * Repackaging and reediting content
  * Automated reporting
  * Product documentation

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==== About the Speaker ====

Retired Professor of Management at U of Ottawa.

  * 2006 - May -- Pres. of OCLUG -- Now I'll have to learn more about Linux!
  * 2007 - Mar -- have learned a lot, including how much still to learn.


==== About the Speaker ====

Scott has been haunting server rooms and using/administrating Unix and Unix like systems for more than 30 years now. His background includes IT infrastructure, system administration, deployments and migrations, security and management. He is currently working as a consultant for the federal government.


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===== BOFs =====

Speaker: [[history:speaker:38|tbd]]\\

No BOF has been proposed at this time, however if anyone wishes to have one, they can propose one after the main talk.

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==== About the Speaker ====

tbd is a speaker we call upon when we don't yet have a real speaker for the meeting or when there are multiple speakers for a panel discussion or BOF.


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