diff --git a/chapters/01_who_is_reading.md b/chapters/01_who_is_reading.md index e5590c7..be4f598 100644 --- a/chapters/01_who_is_reading.md +++ b/chapters/01_who_is_reading.md @@ -1,36 +1,17 @@ # Who is reading -_documentation as a surface to build worlds around software?_ -_docs to lower barriers and create entry points_ - ``` -a surface to build worlds? - where software circulate - who gets to use it - political of the software +documentation as a publishing surface? yes because - it's often first thing one reads when approaching software - see getting started it's consulted not just from beginner, but also experienced users - see a code companion + it's often first thing one reads when approaching software - see getting started + it's consulted not just from beginner, but also experienced users - see a code companion yes but it should be less hostile - see welcoming writing - it should stop assuming reader - -leading to --> 2. welcoming different knowledges + it should stop assuming reader - see natural readers ``` -## Hello worlding - -why and what a surface to build worlds? -articulate intro - -- where software circulate -- who gets to use it -- political of the software - -again versioning tiger ding sun ? --> https://tdingsun.github.io/worlding/ -(did already here --> https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~kamo/projects/api-worldbuilding/ ) - ## Getting started `("Getting startled" could also make for a nice title)` diff --git a/chapters/02_welcoming_others.md b/chapters/02_welcoming_others.md deleted file mode 100644 index 25e7c7c..0000000 --- a/chapters/02_welcoming_others.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ -# Who is writing? - -_can documentation be an interface between different knowledges?_ -_trigger different kinds of economy around software?_ - -- interface between code, developer, world -- post meritocracy manifesto -- trans\*femminist server whishlist - -- 360 degrees of proximity - ---- - -Software documentation comes in different formats. - -The Díataxis framework (Procida, 2017) maps them into four main quadrants using a systematic approach. It focuses on four main needs of the user: to learn, to understand, to get the work done, and to gather specific informations. - -In this thesis the term documentation is less structured: it tries to encompass different forms of care. Instead of prescribing the recipe for a perfect solution, it attempts to describe a surface, and ways to navigate it. - -Expanding the four quadrants, mixing them we can include transversal practices like that proposed for _360 degrees of proximity_. - ---- - -not a rigid framework -but a surface: a set of practices -something to be negotiated and expanded - -example: a practice that gets instantiated in the form of workshop (_360 degrees of proximity_) - -alt text poetry \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/chapters/02_who_is_writing.md b/chapters/02_who_is_writing.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac7a345 --- /dev/null +++ b/chapters/02_who_is_writing.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +## 2. Who is writing? +_2000_ + +The second part explores documentation as a crossroads, where different knowledges meet in the making of software. + +Documentation is a space that interfaces between the code, the user, the developer, and the world. A space where to welcome different voices: not just engineers, not just experts, not just dudes. A space to acknowledge the massive labor of care besides technicalities, often marginalized by coding culture. + +__Sections:__ + +A section that focuses on who is writing the software, but not just the code. From software as inherently collaborative practice to the post-meritocratic manifesto. + +A section about who is writing documentation, and how. Different strategies to approach it, from different knowledges. `wip` diff --git a/chapters/03_hello_worlding.md b/chapters/03_hello_worlding.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e958cdc --- /dev/null +++ b/chapters/03_hello_worlding.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +## Hello worlding + +The third section is focused on worlding, and the relation between code, documentation practices and political aesthetic. + +Here documentation is seen as a surface that could host principles in close contact with algorithms, letting them entangle and shape each other. A way to orientate our instruments towards "non-extractive relationships, but in the meantime, being accountable for the ones they are complicit with." (A Wishlist for Trans\*feminist Servers, 2022) + +__Sections:__ + +A first part of theoretical examples of technology and worlding: Trans\*feminist Servers, Zach Blas, Tiger Ding Sun, James Bridle, Soon and Geox, Richard Gabriel. + +A second part of case studies. The soupboat. Avantwhatever.net. Queer Motto API. The Screenless Office. The uxn ecosystem. `list wip` diff --git a/chapters/03_orienting_software.md b/chapters/03_orienting_software.md deleted file mode 100644 index b83eae0..0000000 --- a/chapters/03_orienting_software.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -_can documentation be an ideal surface to build worlds?_ - -- the screenless office -- ian cheng - ----