====== Writing It Down Makes It Science ======
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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest|1]])


Figuratively you could argue that your hacks/projects didn't happen without providing documentation - or at least the documentation would add significant value by enabling others to not make the same mistakes or advancing directly on your foundation.

If you happen to have a list of thing that you always wanted to write documentation
on at some point - seize this opportunity and do it.

Status of the project or even if it was a success or not is irrelevant.

===== Cult of done-manifesto + =====

As supporters of the [[http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html
|Cult of done-manifesto]] we thought it needed a small
addition
  * There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
  * Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
  * There is no editing stage.
  * Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so **just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it**.
  * **Banish procrastination.** If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
  * The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
  * Once you're done you can throw it away.
  * **Laugh at perfection.** It's boring and keeps you from being done.
  * **People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.**
  * **Failure counts as done.** So do mistakes.
  * Destruction is a variant of done.
  * If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done
  * Done is the engine of more.

  * **Writing it down makes it science.** ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSUMBBFjxrY|2]])


===== documentation hints =====

Schritte:
  - Projektnamen ausdenken.
  - Sammeln was schon da ist:
    * PCBs
    * Sample Output
    * Bilder
    * Plaene
    * Text
  - Bilder machen nachholen und auf ein Bilder-Portal stellen:
    * Google+ Bilder (einfachste Moeglichkeit)
    * imgur.com oder twitter bilder oder mit ins git repo
  - (optional) Code auf github oder not github stellen
  - Lizenz drauf (und wenn es nur WTFPL ist)[[http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/|wtfpl]]
  - Readme schreiben
    * Wofuer ist das ding und was tut es?
    * Was braucht man fuer die Installation/ den Zusammenbau
    * Wie wird es verwendet/gestartet
  - Im Internet damit angeben:
    * Auf eurem Twitter/Facebook/IRC euer Fertiges Projekt posten
    * Evtl nen Blog Post draus machen?
    * Evtl nach Hackaday?

===== Session 1: härter-dokumentieren Sonntag =====
  * Sonntag, 6.10.2013 - 14-20Uhr
    * [[friedhof:attendance|Attendance]] --makefu
    * [[project:stickmaschinenlicht|Stickmaschinenlicht]] --ttb
    * [[project:woodwoob|WoodWoob]] --Phil 3.
    * [[project:shackpranger]] - [[http://shackpranger.tumblr.com/|tumblr]] --exco (Migration + Initial Commit aus gesammelten Werken)
      * Players?
    * [[project:hackerspace_wanderkiste]] --exco