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AndroidTW

Tech writer looking for an OSS project to join for Hacktoberfest

I've been a technical writer for 26 years. In that time, I've recommended people looking to break into tech writing to get involved in an open source project to get experience and have work that they can point potential employers to. I feel like a hypocrite, though, since I've never gotten involved in one, myself!

So, in an effort to practice what I preach, I'm looking to start contributing to an open source project as part of [Hacktoberfest](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) (though hopefully continuing on beyond the end of October).

If anyone can recommend a project that either you contribute to, yourself, or that you know is in a position that it could use the help of an experienced technical writer, please let me know!

Posted Sep 30, 2021, 11:06 AM UTC

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jns111•

Hey, this sounds very interesting!

I've got an OSS project going for a couple of years now. It's a set of low level tools to help companies build GraphQL Proxies, Servers, Clients, API Gateways, etc...

It's used by many companies in production, like Banks, Insurances, API Management Companies, etc...

One area that could be improved is to take documentation to the next level. It would be very interesting to get in touch and see if this is something for you.

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ltscom•

whats the project?

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jns111•

https://github.com/jensneuse/graphql-go-tools

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cindreta•

Hey man - thank you for posting! We’d be honored to have you controbute :) What would you like to do? Write something, develop something or?

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AndroidTWOP•

I'm going to review u/jns111's project this weekend. If that doesn't look like a good match, I'd love to look at other projects that feel they're ready to engage with a writer to help them make their product more accessible to their intended audience.

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cindreta•

let me know how it goes ✌🏻

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AndroidTWOP•

u/cindreta, I've determined that I don't have the baseline knowledge necessary to be effective with the project that u/jns111 administers. If you can point me to your repository, I could take a look to see if it's a better match for my knowledge and experience.

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cindreta•

Hey man here is the org: https://github.com/Treblle and if you wanna write our blog https://treblle.com/blog ✌🏻

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