Red Hat helps teach about tech writing

In Brno in Czechia, Red Hat’s large local office has been helping the city’s Masaryk University to teach future technical writers. Whenever someone tries to teach, though, they learn as well. At the Open Source Summit in Prague, a senior member of Red Hat’s documentation team in Brno presented a talk called Diagrams & Dragons: Teaching Technical Writing to University Students the Open Source Way. Red Hat has a large site in Brno, which is the second-largest Czech city and is also the home of the respected Masaryk University. Red Hat’s Brno office has a substantial documentation team — this vulture was part of it for a while. For the last four years, Red Hat has been working with the university’s Faculty of Informatics to teach a course unit in technical writing. Jiří Herrman talked about what the course tutors had learned from the students. For FI MUNI, its course PV177 Technical Writing. …