Where’s the Summer of Documentation?

“If you ask what’s missing from open source software, one of the
top responses is often “documentation.” While there’s piles and
piles of great code stuffed up on Google Code, SourceForge.net, and
others, the actual documentation to accompany it is often lacking.
This is why it’s doubly sad to keep seeing bounty programs aimed at
generating more and more code, and more and more coders, but very
little being done to address documentation.

“Google has been running its Summer of Code program since 2005.
It has reached out to hundreds of open source programs and
distributed millions of dollars to try to encourage more people to
get involved with open source. That’s great, but it doesn’t address
the pressing need that many projects have to develop more docs to
go with the software they already have. Now Fedora is ramping up a
“Summer of Coding for 2010, and yet again — it’s all about
code doesn’t address any other forms of contribution.”

Complete
Story