Tech writers around the globe providing advice and their experiences.
A monthly digest of new posts from The Good Docs Project blog.
Get a sneak peek at the 20 blog posts from The Good Docs Project's Blogathon 2026, exploring career growth, AI, documentation best practices, and the unique perspectives of our global community.
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Go behind the scenes of The Good Docs Project's first Blogathon, where writers from around the world shared ideas, created 20 blog posts, and celebrated documentation together.
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Our Blogathon aims to bring writers from around the world together to share ideas, write blog posts, and explore the future of documentation. Learn more about the event and how you can participate.
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The Iron release introduced a new SDK Overview template and new Chronologue examples. We also share some community news.
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The Helix release introduced a new and improved reference template. We also share some community news.
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This is the tenth post in a series about making a business case for documentation. We discuss how to handle objections to your business case for documentation.
Ravi Murugesan — 
Lana Novikova 
This is the ninth post in a series about making a business case for documentation. We discuss how to present and defend your business case.
Ravi Murugesan — Lana Novikova 
This is the eighth post in a series about making a business case for documentation. We discuss how to calculate the return on investment (ROI) for documentation.
Ravi Murugesan — Lana Novikova 
The Golden Gate release includes updates for two existing templates and new quality standards for all template deliverables moving forward. We also share some community news.
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This is the seventh post in a series about making a business case for documentation. We provide a step-by-step guide to building your business case.
Ravi Murugesan — Lana Novikova 
This is the sixth post in a series about making a business case for documentation. We discuss how documentation helps mitigate business risks.
Ravi Murugesan — Lana Novikova 
This is the fifth post in a series about making a business case for documentation. We discuss how good documentation can also lead to cost savings in this post.
Ravi Murugesan — Lana Novikova 
This is the fourth post in a series about making a business case for documentation. In this post, we discuss how good documentation can drive revenue and traffic to your website.
Ravi Murugesan — Lana Novikova 
This post is the third in a series of posts about making a business case for documentation. It explains how to audit the current state of documentation in your company.
Ravi Murugesan — Lana Novikova 
This post is the second in a series of posts about making a business case for documentation. It explains how to understand your company's goals and interests.
Ravi Murugesan — Lana Novikova 
This is the first in a series of posts about making a business case for documentation.
Ravi Murugesan — Lana Novikova 
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The Friendship release includes updates for an existing template, a brand new template and template standardization. We also share some community news.
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The Good Docs Project is thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership with JetBrains, a leader in building exceptional developer experiences. Joining forces with JetBrains will supercharge our mission to empower developers and tech writers to create better software documentation.
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We recently gave an invited talk to the World Food Programme (WFP). Our session was focused on how to make a business case to improve documentation to support an organization's mission.
Ravi Murugesan 
The Eko release introduced three new templates. We also share some community news.
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The Dragon release introduced the overhaul of our Concept template and two new templates.
Alyssa Rock 
The Good Docs Project crossed a major milestone in May and partnered with our first major organization, GitLab! They officially invited us to become a member of their https://thegooddocsproject.dev/blog/we-are-gitlab-open-source-partners/[Open Source Partners Program].
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May has been an exciting month as The Good Docs Project has been invited to become a GitLab Open Source Partner. Joining forces with GitLab brings us new opportunities to promote best practices in technical documentation for open source software projects.
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The Capilano release introduces updates to existing templates, three brand new templates and a new feature, template packs! We also share more community news.
Alyssa Rock 
The Good Docs Project is an open source community of technical writers, doc tools experts, UX designers, and software engineers who are committed to improving the quality of documentation in open source. We aim to educate and empower people to create high-quality documentation by providing them with resources, best practices, and tools to enhance their documentation in open source and beyond.
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The Good Docs Project is growing into a keystone project for software ecosystems. Read on to learn about what a keystone project is and why they matter.
Cameron Shorter 
The Brooklyn release introduced four new templates. We also share some lessons from using our own templates.
Ryan Macklin 
We want to send a big thanks and shout-out to Write the Docs for organizing the conference for another year. Here's a recap of (some of) what we did and our favorite bits.
Felicity Brand 
Do you find yourself in the shoes of someone who has to write documentation for the first time ever? The closer you look, the more you will find that technical writing is actually quite a broad discipline. Amidst the tons of resources, it can be hard to figure out what you need to know to get started. So here are six resources to narrow that space for you.
Tina Luedtke 
We are proud to announce the release of our templates (v0.2.0). We also share the state of the Good Docs Project.
Ryan Macklin 
The Brooklyn release introduced four new templates. We also share some lessons from using our own templates.
Felicity Brand 
Often we struggle to write docs, especially when it's something that isn't explicitly part of our job or one of our passions. Like a chore, though, we know it still needs to be done. Then writer's block hits, where we all struggle to get anything on a page in the first place.
Ryan Macklin 
We share the state of The Good Docs Project as we continue to create templates to help developers overcome the challenges around creating good docs.
Cameron Shorter 
We are proud to announce the first 0.1 release of TheGoodDocsProject.
Cameron Shorter