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Go Documentation Sprinters!

June 28th, 2007

The problem on plone.org is a luxury indeed: we have too much documentation, so things end up being hard to navigate for anybody new to Plone. This is about to receive a major upgrade in terms of findability.

The sprint team here in the Googleplex are hard at work making sense of the overwhelming amount of documentation available for Plone.

I'm very very excited about this. I originally suggested the card sort technique to the team since it has become my new favorite organizational technique for amorphous blobs like content organization (one of the upsides of working with the kick-ass people here at Google — discovering new ways to do stuff), and the sprinters took it up and ran with it.

Interestingly, Erik Rose and his people at Penn State had recently done the exact same thing for their wiki. Compare:

Quite an improvement. Of course, the sheer amount of content on plone.org makes this a very special challenge — some 1200+ content objects are involved:

Part of the wall of documentation

Cardsorters

Erik Rose sorting the chaos

(Photos by Donna Snow and Nate Aune, thanks!)

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Alexander Limi is making software easier to use.

He is one of the founders of the open source project Plone, lives in San Francisco and works for Google.

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