I’m participating in my second FLOSS Manuals event in two weeks. After Winter Camp in Amsterdam, I had a week of “normal” life, and now I’m in Palm Springs, California at the DocTrain West conference, helping lead a book sprint to produce a manual for Firefox.

Right now, we have seven technical writers in a conference room, along with Adam Hyde, founder of FLOSS Manuals, and Chris Hofmann, director of engineering for the Mozilla Foundation. We’ve had at least that many people contributing remotely. The site shows that 22 people have logged into the site today, though I think one or two of those are working on other projects (that’s cool, too).

We’re “repurposing” some content from the Firefox Knowledge Base, but also generating new overview and conceptual content.

It’s not too late if you want to join in. Just go to http://en.flossmanuals.net, click “Write” at the top of the page, and then click “Register” on the left side to create a login ID. Find the link for Firefox, and see if there are any chapters you’d like to work on. Click “edit” for the chapter, and dig in. There’s nifty new IRC chat widget on the right side of the page, so you can talk to everyone else who’s participating.