Documentation Director

Summary: The Documentation Director sets standards for OSE documentation, and is responsible for organizational learning necessary for best practices to spread throughout the OSE development community. Assesses documentation for clarity and quality, and directs priorities of technical documentation. Specific tasks include development and management of the Flashy XM platform, and prioritization of development tasks in the XM platform. Collaborates with FeF Documenter, CAD Director, and Documentation Community Manager to set standards. Works with and guides remote collaborators in the production of documentation assets.

Requests to Developers for explanations, video clips, vlogs, measurements, or other technical documentation.

Responsible for staying on top of documentation fulfillment with all FeF developers

Duties

• Responsible for developing standards for the Documentation Steps of the Flashy XM platform
• Responsible for prioritizing Documentation Steps of the Flashy XM platform
• Responsible for advising Founding Director on priorities of overall product ecology Development Steps
• Responsible for the overall state of OSE documentation
• Creates Distilled Documentation Pages - XM_Documentation_Brief_Page - for each project

• Assures that organizational learning occurs on documentation technique within the development team
• Collects and assesses available documentation on industry standards from external resources
• Collates, requests, and refactors documentation from team members
• Synthesizes, organizes, diagrams, maps, and otherwise upgrades information architecture
• Sets development priorities for documentation
• Helps to develop documentation standards for OSE
• Studies external resources and assimilates best documentation practices into OSE
• Develops training materials for Documenters-in-Training
• Works with CAD Director to assure CAD assets are being generate as needed
• Works with FeF Documenter, Blogger, and CAD Director to assure that documentation standards and progress are communicated to the external world
• Produces high quality explainer videos as necessary
• Develops and oversees soundtrack, video archive, photo archive, media asset, CAD, and other repositories and file versioning systems
• Works with Curriculum Director to produce teaching materials for Post-Scarcity Civilization

• Works with field-testing interns/trainees to write field-testing reports
• Sets technical writing standards for Documentation Community.
• Organizes writing of technical manuals: fabrication process, assembly, operation and safety
• Works with field-testing team/product designer/industry professionals (SME’s)
• Works with Production Director to generate Open Business Models

Skills Required

• Photoshop/Illustrator/Gimp/Inkscape
• Expertise in nonlinear video editing
• Technical background (engineering, physics, or related background that provides technical literacy
• Familiarity with Systems Engineering Design Software (ask)

Work Product

• Organizational strategy and learning materials package for documentation