Another incredible day has wrapped up with the Writing Open Source crew. We're not just conference participants anymore, we're a crew. (We know we're a crew because the Web site no longer has a conference schedule, but a forum for discussion after the conference has ended.) It's been incredible to watch the progression as people look both outward for support and best practices, and inward to apply new information to existing practices within a team project.

Today we had several sessions that came from yesterday's talks they included:

• Dru on the BSD certification project
• Janet on the FLOSS Manuals project
• Shaun on the new markup language he's created for GNOME docs: project mallard
• an adhoc discussion on the challenges of translation and the toolkit that we're currently struggling with in various projects

After stuffing ourselves with ideas, we headed up to Inglis Falls at the request of the mayor. (She felt it was inappropriate for people to come all this way and not see the falls. She was right.) After dinner talk was filled the commerce of open source, authoring books for main stream publishers and more. A whole lot of really funny jokes have been established. You know the kind that make no sense without context and are only referred to by their punchline? Y'know, like this:

[ ] F

I can assure you that is all kinds of hilarious. It was so hilarious that Milo translated it:

[ ] V

Awwww, yeah: there's nothing like a good documentation joke. Apologies to those of you who were following along in Identi.ca and Twitter tonight. The dip into senseless tweeting and denting was inevitable after two days of really awesome, and thought provoking, content.

Sunday (tomorrow) is a project sprint day so I expect the tweet feeds to be fairly quiet. In the mean time, check out some of the links above for projects that might not have otherwise been on your radar. There's some truly fantastic work happening in the world of open source documentation and I'm very excited to be a part of it.