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What is a Doc Sprint?

A Doc Sprint is a short (two to three day) event when a group of people collaborate to write a specific set of documents. Our up-coming 2nd Doc Sprint event will focus on 'Quick Start' and 'How To' Guides for Atlassian products. We invite lots of people to participate, including:

Any Atlassian from around the globe
Partners
Interested business users and administrators of our products (outside Atlassian)
External Developers
External technical writers

Event Details

Event name	Atlassian Doc Sprint 2. (Read about the focus of this event and some background info that explains why you should participate! )
Date	Thursday 4 November to Friday 5 November (2 days)
Location in Australia	The Atlassian Sydney office 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney, Australia Google Maps
Location in US	The Atlassian San Francisco office 375 Alabama Street #325, San Francisco, USA Google Maps
Online	Want to join us remotely? If you can't make it to Sydney or San Francisco, or if you'd like to spend just a few hours rather than the whole two days, drop in on our daily webinar sessions, follow the buzz in our online chat room and subscribe to our email list. We'll fill in the details nearer the date.

Tell me a bit more about Doc Sprints...

The Tech Writers here at Atlassian run Doc Sprint events from time to time.
- Our Inaugural Doc Sprint event (which started off life as a 'one-off experiment') received so much positive feedback that we decided to run more.
- As you may have noticed, we like love can't live without adore our chocolate too!
Each Doc Sprint event has a different focus and set of aims.
- While we anticipate getting certain groups of participants for each event, we encourage participation so anyone who's interested in a Doc Sprint event is more than welcome to participate!
Your documentation will be published in here in the Doc Sprint space for the world to see!
- We may also use your ideas and designs and merge them into our product-specific documentation. If so, we'll credit you with a comment on your work.
- Of course, if you produce an absolutely perfect masterpiece, then we'll use it in our product-specific documentation as is!
- As with all the documentation on the Atlassian documentation wiki, any content you create here will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia License.
- If you'd prefer, you can publish the tutorial on your own website and we will link to it from our documentation.

What's the focus of Doc Sprint 2?

Our 2nd Doc Sprint will focus on the development of 'Quick Start' and 'How To' Guides for Atlassian products.
- Your target audience for these guides can be any kind of user, such as the every day user through to technically-minded product administrators.
- If you have a specific use case that you'd like to write about, then feel free to write about it!
- Please check out the Doc Sprint - November 2010 page for more details.

Previous Doc Sprint Events

Our Inaugural Doc Sprint (held back in February 2010) focused on tutorials for developing Atlassian gadgets and plugins.

What will you get out of participating?

Eternal recognition as author.
- Your name will be displayed as author of work on the Atlassian documentation wiki.
A groovy Doc Sprint T-Shirt
- We love our T-Shirts at Atlassian. Our designers are coming up with one just for this event. You'll receive a Doc Sprint T-Shirt for your valuable contribution!
Kudos from Atlassian's Tech Writers.
- We'll write about the results of the event on the Atlassian blog and we'll add you to the Doc Sprint Hall of Fame.
Chocolate.
- Indubitably, there will be chocolate in there somewhere.

Signup and Contact Details

So come play with the Atlassian tech writers. We're the dudes that write the docs that rock. Help us get our documentation up to your own exacting standards.

If you would like to take part in the Atlassian Doc Sprint, please add yourself to the list of attendees. Pick a chocolate middle name before they run out!

Please contact us if you have any questions: The Atlassian technical writers at docs@atlassian.com