Technical Charter

Slocan Statement

The following is intended as a starting point, a first draft towards establishing a shared charter that would serve to protect, support, and enrich the nascent Fediverse.

The Rel Language - RAI Documentation

Full documentation for the Rel language.

Docs as Code: The Best Guide for Technical Writers

Recently, my work has involved writing a lot of documentation and. Doing this has introduced me to...

Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]

Emmanuele Bassi kicked off a project to improve GNOME's technical governance with a presentation about his ideas (video) at GUADEC 2025. His nudging has led the project to, slowly, work on creating more formal structures for technical governance. It is adopting a teams structure and looking toward creating a steering committee, as well as bootstrapping a Request for Comments (RFC) process. If adopted, GNOME would require RFCs for design, user experience, architectural, and other changes that carry a major impact on the project.

The Specification Is Not a Document - The Phoenix Architecture

Imagine joining a software project a few years from now. It is a large, mature system. It has thousands of business rules, years of operational experience,…

Spectral: Open Source API Description Linter | Stoplight

Use Spectral rules to target API descriptions for quality improvement or enforce API Style Guide rules, such as naming conventions for OpenAPI models or prohibiting integers in URLs.

Open Responses

Open Responses documentation overview.

The language of programming.

Why internationalized documentation matters, and how to make it happen on an Open Source project.

A Taxonomy for Open Source Software

I’m working on a structured taxonomy for classifying open source projects across multiple dimensions: domain, role, technology, audience, layer, and function.

GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands

With GPT‑NL, TNO - together with SURF and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) is building an independent Dutch language model and ecosystem. This strengthens the digital autonomy of the Netherlands and Europe, and provides a solid foundation for responsible AI applications.

Lexicons - AT Protocol Docs - AT Protocol

A schema-driven interoperability framework

Foundation Models | Apple Developer Documentation

Perform tasks with models that specialize in language understanding, structured output, and tool calling.

Foundation Models | Apple Developer Documentation

Perform tasks with models that specialize in language understanding, structured output, and tool calling.