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Subject:Re: The word "documentarian" From:Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com> To:"Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com> Date:Mon, 5 May 2014 09:37:39 -0700
The Write The Docs conference is primarily about lightweight documentation systems and methods for people who are not professional writers -- mostly engineers working in open source. "Documentarian" is tongue in cheek, and not intended to be an actual job title for anyone.
Laura
On May 5, 2014, at 8:07 AM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com> wrote:
> The "Write The Docs" conference ( http://conf.writethedocs.org/na/2014/index.html ) is using the word "documentarians" to describe what we do.
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> I don't recall seeing this word very often before.
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> Is this how we are describing ourselves now?
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> Cordially,
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> Craig Cardimon | Technical Writer
> Marketing Systems Group
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